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As a currency trader, you should give utmost importance to proper money management in your trading. Most traders dont give much time to money management. They learn a few forex trading strategies and jump into live trading. After losing a good portion of their equity, they come back to money management. Dont do this.

The most important thing for you as a trader is to develop trading discipline. Discipline is the ability to plan your work and work your plan. Give your trade the time to develop without hastily taking yourself out of the trade because you are uncomfortable with the risk.

Discipline is also the ability to continue to trade your system even after you have suffered a loss. All world class traders are highly disciplined in their trading. Many traders become disappointed too soon when they dont achieve immediate success. Persistence is the most important quality a trader can possess.

If you apply your system haphazardly or quit too soon, you do not trade in the markets enough to allow your system to produce the wins you are looking for. Force yourself in the beginning to do everything according to the rules of your trading system. You need to develop persistence as a trader.

Learn to follow trading rules and a trading system. The application of trading rules properly is one of the most important things for becoming a successful trader. Applying trading rules is also one of the most difficult to learn. The problem comes when you analyze the market initially. Study of past trades is simple and easy. It is much easier to recognize direction, entry, exits in examples of past trades than if you are trading live.

But when you trade live, it is always much more difficult recognizing opportunity in the now. You need to develop good trading rules and a good trading system. Let me tell you, following trading rules and a trading system is no easy task. It requires a lot of discipline on the part of the trader. You need to obey the trading rules even when the initial response or the opening trade does not work out as anticipated. Just remember, trading rules are not always perfect. Even good rules will fail you at times.

You need to learn to accept losses in your trading career. In the course of trading, losses are going to happen. Even very successful traders suffer occasional losses. No trading system is 100% precise and accurate. There will be losses even when your application of the trading system is consistent and flawless. You need to develop the ability to accept your losses. There is always the 10% unexpected factor in trading.

Losses occur due to two reasons. The first is when the trader fails to follow the established and tested rules and guidelines of a trading system. The second is when the trading system fails to encompass unexpected changes in the market conditions.

You should always, always use stop losses in your trading. The idea behind the stop is to prevent a loss from running away too far. A stop is a market order placed a few pips away from the entry price in the event that price action turns and moves dramatically opposite from the anticipated direction.