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Foreign Currency Risk Management

Everyone has a highly individualistic aversion to risk, no two people are the same, so in many situations there can be no hard and fast rule. One only has to look at sport; skydiving’s a good example. Many are happy to jump from a plane, but base jumping.. no way. It all rests with personal risk assessment. 

Foreign currency risk management is different, there are intangibles and the lure of big money, and this can easily manipulate your personal judgment. Depending on what market you are entering you need to establish your risk tolerance before you commence trading. Any good stock broker or financial planner knows this, and in their marketplace they should make a significant effort to help you determine where your risk tolerance sits. So that you do not push or exceed your tolerance to risk. 

Online foreign currency trading is different, there is no middle-man, just you and the market. You are in total control of your risk tolerance by how you develop your foreign currency risk management strategy, your broker has no real involvement what so ever. 

Simply put, establishing your risk tolerance is a matter of knowing how much money you have to invest, what your

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investment and financial goals are and how much you are prepared to lose if things go wrong. A guiding rule for Foreign currency risk management is: “Never trade what you are not prepared to lose.” 

Think about this for a moment: If you plan to retire in ten years, and you don’t have enough money saved, you may have a high risk tolerance, but minimal money to lose. Yet, you need to do some aggressive, or risky investing to reach your financial goals. This has the potential to create a very dangerous situation because personal needs and your trading strategies conflict. 

If you are in young and just starting to invest for your retirement, your risk tolerance is low, plus you have time to recover any losses. 

Then there is your innate feeling towards risk, you maybe naturally cautious, so will only consider conservative investment strategies. 

Before you ever consider investing one single penny, it is worth taking a course in financial risk management. These are by necessity, an integral part of any good trading course and are mandatory elements in establishing trading strategies. 

Risk management is something you will see discussed extensively and with good reason. Refer back to the chart and you should understand why good risk management has to be indelibly printed into your psyche, if not you will lose and big time. It is probably the biggest single failing of new traders and why they don’t stay in the game for long. 

I have personally experienced losing serious money through bad risk management, so if I can in any way help you avoid going through the same heartache, I will and I will make no apologies for doing so.

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