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Automated Forex System Trading Why Traders Fail
How Fear and Greed Cause FX Traders to Fail at Automated Forex System Trading
There are many people who go into automated forex system trading thinking it to be the key to wealth. Automated forex trading systems can build your wealth faster than any other investment starting from a small capital base, but you do have to do some work as well.
The use of automated forex software has helped many people to overcome several obstacles to profitable forex currency trading. Obstacles like figuring out which forex strategies work, taking the emotion out of executing trade orders and the chore of sitting in front of their computers analyzing charts for hours.
With automated forex trading software doing the majority of the grunt work, why do so many people still fail at FX trading?
Fear and Greed in Automated Forex System Trading
Surprised? While using automated forex software can remove the elements of fear and greed from executing orders when you should, it still doesn’t completely remove human emotions out of the equation.
Although the automated forex trading systems execute the orders, the forex trader is still the brains behind the system. If he or she enters trading rules that don’t make sense, they could use all the forex trading software they wanted and still lose money. How?
One major element is the amount of risk they take. Even though you may be using an automated forex trading system to trade, it doesn’t mean that it will be 100% profitable. There will still be the losses that come along every now and then, regardless of whatever forex strategy you may use. This means that if forex traders take too much risk, they can still blow their account of the water regardless of how accurate the trading strategy may be.
To take things to the extreme, if you have an automated trading system that is 85% accurate, you would win 85 times out of 100. So if you were to risk 50% of your account on each and every trade, you would be riding your luck. No one knows when the 1st of the 15 losing trades is going to come along, and how long the losing streak may be. With 2-3 losses in a row, you would already have lost almost all of your trading capital and be out of the FX trading game.
Regardless of how accurate or profitable your automated forex trading system may be, you do still need to employ proper risk management to get through any periods of drawdown and still make profits at the end of the day. You still have to learn to trade forex with the proper basics in place if you want to make consistent profits both in the short term as well as in the long run.
Of course, it helps tremendously when you have a very accurate and profitable automated forex trading system.