Financial Planning

There are many people trying to make a profit from the forex market.  It’s the largest financial market in the world and has more players than any other market in the world.  Of the $3.2 trillion that is traded everyday, everyone is trying to get a piece of that pie.  But the reality is, only a few a successful.  The following are some of the characteristics that make a forex trader win in the market over time.

Everyone can find a winning forex trading strategy online, but not many will be able to execute it successfully.  It takes a certain kind of a person to be successful in this very competitive marketplace.

Many of the qualities that make a trader successful often has nothing to do with their particular strategy or system.  It has more to do with how they are as a person.  The following are some of those internal traits that make a person win in this market.

Mental Discipline

Again, there are many great trading tactics and strategies out there that you can legitimately trade successfully with.  But it takes an incredible amount of mental discipline to understand them and execute it effectively.

Take forex arbitrage for example.  It’s a virtually risk free trading tactic, and yet only a few trade it well enough to make money from it consistently.  You have to be quick to identify an opportunity and you have the mental discipline to make the trade quickly before other traders bring the price back into equilibrium.

There is also an incredible amount of discipline required to stay on a trading plan.  Once you’ve developed a solid plan, you need to be able to execute it just like you planned it without diversion.  Many traders get sidetracked by their own emotional fear or greed when they are trading live.  This lack of discipline causes them to make rash decisions and get off their plan, that was good to start out with.