Forex Trading Tips for Small Accounts

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#572: Forex Trading Tips for Small Accounts

In this video:

00:29 – How to trade professionally if you have a small trading account?

01:06 – Dangers of gambling instead of trading.

02:05 – Understanding correct money management and having a strategy.

04:15 – You now have the skills to be able to trade.

05:18 – Trading on a Prop Firm account.

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I'm going to talk about how you can trade successfully if you only have a small live trading account. Let's talk about that a more right now.

Hi there, Traders! It's Andrew Mitchem here at The Forex Trading Coach with video and podcast number 572.

How to trade professionally if you have a small trading account?

I want to talk about a topic that affects a lot of you out there. And it's all about how do you trade properly and professionally. If you only have a very small trading account, you see, the issue is that a small account, depending on who you are and your financial circumstances, may be a lot of money for you. And you become nervous. You're not sure, how to trade. You're fearful of losing money and you feel it's not a sufficiently big enough account to make any sufficient and realistic money out of that account.

Dangers of gambling instead of trading.

On the other hand, you might be looking at trading, and you might find that a small account just play money for you. The danger of that is that you're likely to do something really silly, and you're likely to not understand risk management, and you're not likely to calculate a lot sizing correctly, or you're just going to gamble the money, or you don't care about stop losses or for trade on forex trades opened over a weekend, whereas maybe your strategy says to shut those trades, you might over trade and take too many positions. And so depending on which side of the of the equation you're at, the issues in some ways are still the same, because a small account can be hard to trade and to make what you call substantial gains on in terms of realistic monetary value. However, it's very important that you trade that small account as though it was a larger account size.

Understanding correct money management and having a strategy.

It's really important that you understand money management. Now, that account might be such a small account that the only thing you can do on your forex pairs is to trade 0.01 lots, and you may not have a big enough account to have really accurate, lot sizes. However, if that account is small, just trade 0.01 lots. Trade the absolute minimum lot size that you can.

The other thing that you really need to, get correctly here is a trading strategy. You know, just because you might have a lot of money and you're just putting $500,000 in the can in this kind of play money, you're probably going to end up losing it.

Or you might gamble in flukes and lucky trades, but without that strategy and that understanding of how you trade in the first place, you're kind of not doing yourself any favors. Likewise, if that small account is a fortune for you. Get yourself educated first. Either way, you have to have a strategy that you thoroughly understand and have confidence in.

You have to have trades that have high reward to risk so that you can make substantial gains. But also it's really important. Let's say you had $1,000, right? And let's say that over time you made pick a figure $200 on it, and it might have taken you six months. The issue that you have there is that someone's going to go, Andrew, I just made $200.