Forex brokers offer great services but many of the services they offer will make most traders lose. Lets examine this in more detail. Here they are in no particular order of importance – they are all important!
Leverage
More traders wipe themselves out because they use to much leverage than any other reason sure you can get up to 400:1 in leverage but on a small account ( and most traders are under $10,000 in retail ) you will see your account blown out the water by normal market volatility.
For a new trader on a small balance no more than 20:1, otherwise you may as well flip a coin.
Deposits
You can trade $50.00 but this is not enough to trade seriously and no trader should consider starting with less than $1,000 and preferably more. If you trade a small balance you are relying on luck and not getting knocked out the market and that’s not a good idea.
If you want to win at forex commit enough money to have a chance and use leverage wisely otherwise your account will be toast.
Demo Account
These are only useful for showing you how the trading platform works and tell you nothing about your potential in real time trading, simply because there is no pressure and trading is a pressure experience.
Research and FREE Guides
Are always used to entice you into trading but really you can get most of what they say for free online. There mostly, cut your losses run your profits, be disciplined etc etc and if you don’t know that before you open a trading account – you should!
Also research they offer daily wont help you either and is the same old technical levels you can see yourself
Choosing a Broker
You only need to choose on 3 criteria
1. Security of your money and make sure they are a broker of high standing
2. Pip spreads the lower the better this is your cost of doing business and needs to be low
3. The reliability of the trading platform and how comfortable you feel with it
Brokers don’t set out to harm you but many of the services they offer can ensure you lose and many traders don’t think anything of putting up 100 dollars and leveraging 400:1. Mostly be traders are not serious about making money and gamble.
If you get the right forex education you can use your broker to make you a lot of money and not get wiped out and believe me the services offered and used wisely, you can make a lot of money.
By: Kelly Price