The typical Forex trader gets a profit and feels pleased. The bigger it gets though, the more tempted he is to take it. Swings in price go back against his position and eats his open equity and this causes emotional problems.
The bigger the profit becomes the more tempted the trader is to take it. The trader ends up snatching the profit early, as open equity swings cause him to panic and he banks it and then what happens?
The trade continues the way he thought and goes on to pile up $10, 20 30,000 or more and he’s not in.
Its hard holding a profit in a long term trend and taking short term swings against you, by sometimes thousands a day - but if you want to catch and hold the long term trends that’s what you have to do.
It requires total understanding of your trading system and confidence in it - and this is why most traders can’t do it they are emotional “shoot from the hip” traders or following a guru.
A good Forex trading system will normally win 30 - 50% of the time (forget the traders who claim 90% their lying) so your losers will be normally more […]

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