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Friday, August 21, 2009

Professional Forex Trading - How The Pros Trade

By James Oleander

Almost anyone can become a forex trader, because you dont need any highly specialized skills to succeed, and you definitely dont need a degree to be successful. As long as you have the basic aptitude for trading, you should be ready to begin.

However the ability to acquire employment at some of the higher-end, established financial institutions that deal in foreign exchange does take some work. It is important to have those valued qualifications and proper network of contacts. However, if you choose to conduct foreign exchange activities for yourself, with your own capital, then in addition to your own computer with internet connection, you don't need any qualifications at all.

Many forex traders work in the comfort of their own home, for themselves, and are successful. While I do have special qualifications that are helpful (a Finance and Accounting education), this type of knowledge is superfluous to being a forex trader and did not influence my success at all. You can be just as successful without a lot of finance or accounting knowledge.

Still, you're probably asking what skills you do need to begin this career. This is a very good question.

As for generalized knowledge, it's always good to have at least a rudimentary understand of the math, arithmetic, perhaps also some statistics. Those skills will help you analyze things faster and save you valuable time you can spend analyzing other aspects of the market. Aside from those things, you are pretty much set to begin your foreign exchange trading.

You have to have a high level of motivation and be unwilling to fail. This mindset will help you get over the rocky parts of your path to forex trading success. Forex trading requires a time when you will be testing the waters, which includes dealing with inevitable losses. It will take you a while before you learn the game and can start making more money than you lose. Until you start making money, you will have to rely on your desire to succeed to keep you focused on your goal.

This is a great career if you have the motivation because you can't be too old or too young. You can be a man or a woman, as it's expertise and the ability to generate profit that will be respected, not gender. Along with motivation, you have to be focused--eyes on the prize--and you do have to be disciplined.

So fundamentally, everyone on paper can become a successful trader on the foreign exchange market, no matter what your background. But in practice, it will be those who have the ability to stay focus and disciplined in the face of volatility and uncertainly. It is only with this seriousness of mind that you can venture into the foreign exchange market and use these markets for their extensive opportunities for profit and revenue! - 23208

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