In our last lesson we finished up our series on Candlestick Chart Patterns with a look at the Inverted Hammer and the Shooting Star Candlestick Chart Patterns. In today’s lesson we are going to start a new series on money management and the psychology of money management, the most important concept in trading and the reason why most traders fail.

Over the last several years working in financial services I have watched hundreds if not thousands of traders trade, and over and over again I see smart people who have been intelligent enough to accumulate large sums of money in their non trading careers open a trading account and loose huge sums of money making what you would think are easily avoidable mistakes that one would think even the dumbest traders would avoid.

Those same traders are the ones that consider themselves too good or smart to make the same mistakes that so many others make, and that will skip over this section to get to what they feel is the “real meat” of trading, strategies for picking entry points. What these traders and so many others fail to realize is that what separates the winners from the losers in trading is not how good someone is at picking their entry points, but how well they factor in what they are going to do after they are in a trade into their trade entries and how well they stick to their trade management plan once they are in the trade.

For the few who do get that money management is far and away the most important aspect of trading, the large majority of these people don’t understand the large role that trading psychology plays in money management or consider themselves above having to work on channeling their emotions correctly when trading.

So in this series of lessons we are going to first start with a look at the psychology of money management and the role that this plays in causing so many traders to loose their shirts and then move on to ways of managing this before finishing up with specific strategies for managing trades once you are in them.

While not the most exciting part of trading, I assure you that if you don’t understand and work on the concepts presented in this section you are pretty much doomed to failure as a trader no matter how well you understand the other aspects of trading. Having said this I also assure you that if you do understand and work to expand your knowledge of the concepts presented in this series you will be well on your way to becoming a successful trader.

As always if you have any questions or comments please post them in the comments section below so we can all learn to trade together, and good luck with your trading!

Dear Waring,

I'd love to thank you for all your efforts to help newbies like us learn this diffecult business, your website (the super website InformedTrades) as I can see is the best reference for beginners, intermediate traders to trade forex.
Thanks again for your dedicated help.

Regards,

my pleasure thanks for the kind words I am glad you are finding the site useful and look forward to seeing you around the forums.

Best Regards,
Dave

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Disclaimer: Trading is risky and can result in substantial financial loss. As always my posts are simply one traders opinion and should not be taken as trading advice. I am not a financial adviser so everyone please do their own analysis and take responsibility for their own trades.