Well, my days have become very busy as of late. I go to work early, come home late, and need to get some sleep when I am not swamped with the normal day to day duties of life. I need time to cook and clean, pay the bills, service the car, look after my home, watch the superbowl, do laundry, and so on.While I've been making money I certainly am not making enough money to hire someone to look

Emotions are the one of the greatest problems of the Forex traders. Almost every beginning trader, who starts with the demo account, experiences a great success in his trading, but fails to carry this success to the real money account. What’s the problem? Emotions! When we lose we feel frustration and sometimes even despair. Winning can cause us to lose control over our actions and turn our trading into a gambling or cause a serious overtrading. So here are the four easy steps to stop emotions from ruining your Forex trading:

1. Single loss is not your fault. It’s not even the market’s fault. And it’s not your system’s fault. It’s just a loss. No trader or system can guarantee 100% winning rate. So, losses should happen. If you lose then your system works. It may even lose again, but that won’t change the full picture. Trading doesn’t work with a single loss or win; it works with the loss rate and risk-to-reward ratios. So, next time you lose, remember that there is no one to blame, because there is no guilt in losing.
2. If the losses prevail over the winning positions then check your risk-to-reward ratio first. If each of your losses is less than a third of your single winning position then maybe your system is intended to work with 65% of your positions in the red zone? If your risk-to-reward ratio doesn’t compensate your poor loss-to-win ratio, you still don’t have to blame yourself, the market or your system. Probably, it’s just the wrong system for the market you are trading in. Time changes and the old systems stop working, while the new ones are created. Just switch to something else and continue your pursuit of success.
3. Single winning position is not an indicator of your success. The same as with the losses don’t treat a single win as your accomplishment. It’s just a part of the routine process of trading Forex.
4. If your winning rate is high during the long period of time and the risk-to-reward ratio is rather low then I can congratulate you with finding the right strategy that worked fine for the kind of market you were trading on during that period. That’s it! Stick with it until your winning rate declines below the satisfying level. Then look at the number 2.

The Forex trading is already a very popular kind of the accessible financial trading. It’s now more like a «people financial trading» with many traders treating it as some kind of the «home business» opportunity. The popularity of the on-line Forex trading (and the popularity of the Forex was insignificant before the on-line era) has began rather recently — about 8-9 years ago. Every new year brings us new changes and developments. What will be the future of the Forex market?

It may seem almost impossible but the Forex market will become even more popular than it is now. A lot of people has already heard about the Forex, but know little about it and never tried trading. If the past several years were dedicated to informing people about the Forex, the next few years will be about getting as many people as possible to actually try trading Forex, at least on demo. The increasing popularity will lead to an increased amount if the related information — analysis, trade ideas, systems, strategies, expert advisors, etc. People will start discussing Forex not only at the dedicated forums and chatrooms, but at the unrelated meetings and parties.

The trends will become less distinctive. The large amount of participants will mean a faster and more flexible reaction to the global events — like natural disasters, acts of terrorism, war conflict outbreaks, commercial news and so on. The volatility will rise also because of the wider range of the systems, strategies and the analytical reports.

The stricter regulation will also influence the market participants, attracting more conservative traders. The unregulated Forex brokers will also remain popular though because some traders will value the cheapness and the easiness of trading more than the comfort of being protected by the state’s laws.

Paid systems and strategies will continue to flourish despite the fact that the free similar version will be widely available. The new marketing techniques will do their work enriching all those who decide to create their own paid «get rich with Forex scheme».

Here's my bold prediction for you in 2009!

You will break your trading resolutions by the end of February.

• You will abandon your trading plan
• You will fall into the same destructive trading patterns you resolved to change
• Your account will earn the same or less than in 2008

I know this this sounds harsh, but statistically speaking, that's what will happen to most traders. So, are you going to let this happen to you?

True, statistics cover populations and not individual traders. The fact is, its traders who are outside of th enorm and trade with focused discipline that really achieve their financial goals. When is now the time to re-focus with discipline and dedication and really commit yourself to your trading plan?

Today is January 15, 2009 and February is just around the corner.

Let this be your wake-up call!

Be honest with yourself and focus with the discipline of a seasoned trader on staying true to your trading plan or risk becoming a statistic!

Happy "Disciplined" Trading!!

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FOREX RethinkThough I've been trading the AUDJPY on a 15m chart quite a bit, and with reasonable success, I am thinking about moving to a larger time frame. Well, to be accurate, it's not so much that I plan to use a different chart. What I really want to do is accumulate positions over a longer period of time.Do you know why?Because, if I can accumulate a bunch of positions that are at some