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There are three general things you must have in order to be a successful forex trader:

You must have a good forex system

You must have a good system. The system should be profitable in the long run and must be easy to implement. It should be of a mechanical nature, allowing little or no discretion or judgment from the trader´s part. Especially if you are a starting trader, it is important that you follow mechanical rules: if A=B then C, if not D. As a machine. The reason for this is simple. There a lot of emotions that come into play when trading forex. If you have a set of rules to follow then you know exactly what to do and no matter what your feelings are telling you, you can ignore them and simply follow the precise rules dictated by your system.

You mut have a good set of money management rules for your forex trading system

Trading is not only to have a good system (of course that is very important) but also about having a good set of money management rules and principles. Trading without following these precise money management rules is a sure way to fail as a forex trader. The term money management refers to the principles and discipline you use in order to control your risk exposure when entering a trade. How much of your total capital you will risk on any individual trade, where you will place your stop loss, where you will place your profit objective and the ratio between your profit objective.

You must be able to control your emotions while trading forex

This is very important rule a trade must learn to master. While trading, you are constantly presented with feelings such as fear, greed and excessive excitement. The reason many traders experience these types of feelings is simple, the don´t have a good trading plan. They don´t have a good and clear set of rules to follow. They will trade based on emotions rather than on signals issued by a profitable system. They will not respect stop losses, profit objectives or any other important parameters essential for profitable forex trading.