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The material in this publication is of the nature of general comment only, and neither purports nor intends to be advice. Readers should not act on the basis of any matter in this publication without considering (and if appropriate, taking) professional advice with due regard to their own particular circumstances. The author and publisher expressly disclaim all and any liability to any person, whether a purchaser of this publication of not, in respect of anything and of the consequences of anything done or omitted to be done by any such person in reliance, whether whole or partial, upon the whole or any part of the contents of this publication. Representative of The International securities and Derivatives Group Pty Ltd (AFSL 227544 ABN 22 103 552 683). Trading involves the risk of loss as well as the potential for profit. The author of this book takes no responsibility for the individual investment decisions the reader of this book takes and recommends all readers of this book consult a licensed financial planner prior to making a decision to invest in Foreign Currency Trading Please refer to the International securities and Derivatives Group Pty Ltd Product Disclosure Statement (PDS) and Financial Services Guide (FSG) and/or supplementary FSG if required, which can be found on the website www.isdg.com.au before undertaking this form of investment. Any advice given is general advice only. There are no guarantees or certainties in trading. Reliability of trading signals for mechanical systems is in probabilities only. Trading real money involves hard work, risk, discipline and the ability to follow rules and trade through any tough period. If you are looking for guarantees, trading is not for you. The potential to lose money is real. Many people lack the discipline and are unable to be consistent. A system can help you become consistent. The ability to be disciplined and take the trades is equally as important as any technical indicators a trader uses. Ironically, worrying about the money aspect of trades can contribute to and cause a trader to make trading errors. Therefore, it is important to only trade real money with a risk capital plan. The reader of this book acknowledges that Live Trader Global recommends and advises all its members track and keep their own statistical results on trades and to develop a trading plan in accordance with this analysis. They take complete responsibility for their trades and acknowledge and accept the risks associated with Forex trading. The author may be contacted at success@LTGGoldRock.com
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Table of Contents
Disclaimer ................................................................................................................................................. 1 Introduction ............................................................................................................................................. 3 Step 1 - Learn to Trade with the Big Money.............................................................................................. 3 Does trading with the Big Money mean I need Big Money to start with? .................................... 4 Step 2 - Risk vs Reward may as well be called Live or Die in trading ........................................................ 5 Step 3 - Finding Big Money Indicators ...................................................................................................... 7 Fibonacci ....................................................................................................................................... 7 News Announcements .................................................................................................................. 7 Getting the Edge............................................................................................................................ 8 Step 4 - Stop pretending to make Money ................................................................................................ 8 Opening an Account ..................................................................................................................... 8 Crawl, walk, jog, run and then sprint ............................................................................................ 9 Step 5 - Trade with a Winning Team ........................................................................................................ 9 Trading with Success, breeds Success .......................................................................................... 9 Step 6 - Understanding probability is worth a Million Dollars ............................................................. 10 Step 7 - Be honest with yourself ............................................................................................................ 10 Trading as a Business .................................................................................................................. 11 In Summary ............................................................................................................................................ 11
Introduction
Trading is a very competitive game and a very serious business.
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It needs to be taken seriously and become your business if you want to make a killing in the foreign exchange markets. You will not succeed at anything if you simply dabble in it. This applies to trading as it does to just about any pursuit in life. Its all about effort and focus. If you focus and commit yourself mentally to this business you could make an absolute killing trading FX. How do I know this? This is an immutable law of success applied to trading and works equally as well to anything else you will commit to in life. With trading, feedback on how youre going is rapid. You will know how you are doing almost immediately. This is where success in this field differs to other business pursuits, where sometimes the outcome is not immediately apparent. You know if you are winning or losing within minutes and there is nowhere to hide your wins or losses. And you are either a winner or loser with no grey areas. So your success starts well before you invest one cent in these markets. It starts with your mindset. The following 7 Steps will help you develop this mindset and mentally prepare you for your road to being a winner, or to refocus you if trading success has eluded you so far.
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The good news is ... to be successful you dont necessary have to beat them at their own game and play against them ... just join them! Learn the systems they use, and trade with them when the opportunity arises. The very people who are most likely to take your money and drain your trading account are the banks and institutions. You dont have to learn to beat them, you need to learn how to join them. Here is an essential rule if you want to make a killing trading FX: The best way to start trading with the big money is to learn how to identify and trade with a trending currency pair and dont base your trending decision off anything less than a 1-hour or 4-hour chart. The big money looks for big moves and big moves dont come from looking at small time frames. This will likely mean you will take fewer trades. Fewer trades doesnt necessarily mean fewer profits. When you learn to trade big trends, you will likely see far more money in your trading account than when you look at small timeframes for quick profits.
Does trading With The Big Money Mean I Need Big Money to Start With?
Forex, unlike any other market, gives you the ability to start with smaller amounts of required capital by trading with as little as 10c per point. Many traders think that starting so small is a waste of their time, but this gives you the ultimate power tool as a trader the ability to control your risk. So take advantage of this and start learning to take small profits with the big money, trading trends off big time frames. Starting from the very bottom gives you the opportunity to start trading and staying in the trades with the Big Money and although 10c pips arent very exciting, a $1.20 profit is definitely more exciting than a drained trading account.
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This is critical information. If your account is based in USD (for this example if your account is in another currency it doesnt matter: the same principle applies) then you must understand that you are not always trading in USD. Make sure you calculate the following before you enter a trade: 1. What is your account balance? 2. What is the base currency rate vs the currency your account is held in? 3. Then calculate what volume you require to ensure you stay within your risk tolerance. You will need to do this on the run every time you trade and have the time to do this. Below is a calculator you can use on every trade you take. I simply fill in the grey boxes and it will tell me the exact volume to trade and to ensure the stop I am using for the trade keeps me within the 2.5% risk.
Account size AUD $100,000 Account size EUR 2.5% Risk Risk 2.5% $2,500.0 EUR vs AUD rate 1.56 Stop loss required Volume allowed for stop required 64.10
64,103
1,603
25
Most people associate a bigger stop loss with more risk. This is not necessarily true, as you can adjust your volume to ensure you still stay within 2.5%. In other markets, such as Eminis or Futures, you cannot do this as lot sizes are set in most cases. This is one of the reasons why I prefer the Forex market as a trader. For example, you can trade with a 100 point stop loss and yet still risk the same money as a trade with a 25 point stop loss no matter what base currency. Remember, this is the risk not the reward.
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The reward must be equal to the stop value and if you are scaling out you must understand precisely what profit target you need in order to cover your risk. You might think that this sort of work is time consuming and an unnecessary effort, but if you want to be a winning trader this is what you have to do. Once you get used to trading this way you will never trade any other way. If you want to make Forex a career and enjoy the same returns banks do in Forex trading, then start to manage your risk as they do. You can make a killing as a Forex trader and get rich, very richslowly! You will surprise yourself if you use this approach. Getting rich slowly in Forex is a lot more profitable than trying to get rich quick. Dont go for broke from day one and dont waste your time and money in Forex trading trying to do it quickly. By understanding risk and reward and making it part of your trading plan, you can join the winners!
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The following are some popular strategies which professional traders use to make a killing in trading FX.
Fibonacci
Fibonacci is a very simply system used by many big money traders to enter trades, usually off 50% or 61.8% retracements, giving them an entry to go with a trend. Candlestick formations on larger time frames such as engulfing candles after pullbacks also work extremely well, but only with trends. They are simple yet highly profitable. One other type of trading system often used by big money traders is Wave Trading. Essentially, the market likes to move in 5 wave formations and waves 3 and 5 are usually the strong trending waves. A combination of a Fibonacci retracement and an entry on a wave 3 or 5 is your start to making a killing trading Forex.
News Announcements
Many big money traders will also learn how to trade news announcements such as interest rates, employment and jobs data. This is a skilled and highly lucrative strategy if you are able to build your knowledge and network base to understand how to read a news announcement. The way banks and big money traders will trade news announcements is like this: Senior economists and advisors will usually have their own view and expectation on what an announcement will be and therefore the market will have a bias. For example, an interest rate announcement may be due to come out and the expectation is that the Federal Reserve will leave interest rates on hold. If the announcement is different to expectation, then banks and big money traders will step in and usually make a killing going against this news. Often they will wait days and weeks just for one set of data numbers and if they are not in line with expectation they will enter large volumes. This is not easy to learn on your own, however if you are trading with a team of professionals (more on trading with a
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team shortly) you can learn this technique and potentially make a killing as banks trading on news.
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Opening an Account
When you start trading Forex, open an account with no more than $1000 dollars. In fact, you can open an account with as little as $200 if you wish. You can add more money to your account in time with your success and profits, but heres an iron clad guarantee: If you can't turn $1,000 into $2,000, there is no hope that with more money such as $20,000 that you will turn that into $40,000.
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then if we simply apply good money management and take each trade we will likely succeed. Losing traders skip trades, trade too much money, trade with emotion and fear and never learn the million dollar pay day word called probability. Learning to trade probability can only be done with small lot sizes and trading a system with a professional approach in a businesslike manner. If you dont, you may as well go to the races or casino because you are gambling. Trading with probability is not gambling, as the odds are in your favour and for you to be successful you must be able to take each trade that meets your criteria. That is only possible when you understand and learn to trade with probability on your side.
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senior bank traders do it, million dollar traders do it and if you want to make the same returns they do, its sensible you do it too.
Trading as a Business
Do you have a detailed plan? Not just any plan but a well-researched plan that is designed and crafted and checked and double checked by your trading team, which is made up of successful currency traders? My success has come from educating myself from the best and not trying to reinvent the wheel or thinking I will be better off doing it on my own to save money. In my experience, the solo approach is likely to lose money, not make money.
In Summary
We have now covered the 7 Iron Laws of forex trading that all rich traders obey. Here it is in a nutshell: Forex is the only market you can start to learn to invest with real money from day one. Start out trading 10 cents a point and if you are following million dollar traders trading big positions and you are consistently profitable with small volumes, you can leverage off them and build your investment size over the months and years ahead. Making money as a currency trader is simpler than you think not easy but simpler than you think. Even if you have never been a successful trader before, you can do it. All you have to do is follow the principles and advice you now have in your hands. To Your Success, Andrew Barnett Managing Director LTG GoldRock Freecall: 1 800 4 FOREX (1 800 436 739) International: +61 7 5451 4055 Fax: +61 7 5302 6688 http://www.LTGGoldRock.com
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Live Trader Global GoldRock Disclaimer: Live Trader Global GoldRock Pty Ltd (ACN 135 321 649.) is a corporate Authorized Representative (Authorized Representative number # 335434) of LTG GoldRock Pty Ltd (AFSL 286 510 / ABN 94 099 107 365). Trading involves the risk of loss as well as the potential for profit. Please be advised that any advice provided by LTG GoldRock is general financial product advice only, and may not be suitable for everyone. Please consult your licensed financial consultant to decide if trading in Foreign Exchange is suitable for your personal financial situation.
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