10 Forex Trading tips I wish I knew when I first started

You can use many forex trading tips to help you make money in the market. However, knowing what they are and when you should use them is important. These ten tips will give you an idea of how to start making money from forex trading by teaching you some basic strategies and some things to avoid.

 1. Always trade with a stop loss in place

What is a stop-loss? A stop loss is an order used to close out a position when the price of your trade moves against you by a predetermined amount.

In other words, if the price goes against your entry points, your positions will be closed at the market price. This helps protect you from a deficit of more than you're comfortable with when trading forex.

Why should I use one? It will save time and money for beginners without experience to make accurate predictions about their trades.

 2. Place your stop loss just outside of key support/resistance levels

Placing your stop loss outside key support or resistance levels is a great way to protect your capital. This is because the price will often retrace back to these levels before continuing in its current direction.

The reason is simple: people place orders at these levels, and those orders get filled some percentage of the time. So when someone places a stop-loss order at that level, there's a good chance that their order will be filled, which means their position will be closed out at the price they wanted.

So if you put your stop loss just outside key support and resistance levels, then you can be sure that if the market moves against you, it has less chance of hitting your stop loss (if at all).

 3. Never move your stop loss to break even or beyond

A common mistake among many traders is moving their stops too close or beyond their opening price after entering a position. It seems like no matter how much experience someone has accumulated over time trading forex products like stocks or futures contracts - they will always fall victim at some point during their careers. They make one simple mistake: forgetting about their initial risk management strategy when entering new trades.

 4. Place your take profit at least twice your risk

You place a limit order with a take profit to close your trade when it hits a certain price. When entering the order, you will set the number of pips (smallest unit of price) you want to make on the trade and then enter the number of pips considered acceptable for this trade to close out.

 5. Always split profits at predetermined levels

If you're going to trade forex, you must understand the importance of taking your profits. This means that even when things are going well and the market is moving in your favor, taking part of your profit off the table is still very important so that a reversal can occur and you can still be profitable over time.

You'll notice that every successful trader does this - they don't wait for an exit signal or their stop loss level to be hit before exiting their position.

Doing so would risk losing out on more potential gains that could have been made if they had taken their profit earlier in the trade instead of waiting for something negative to happen first (which may never happen).

 6. Always use a trailing stop loss

A trailing stop loss is a moving stop loss that follows the price of your trade. As the trade moves in your favor, it follows you to lock in profits and minimize depletion.

 7. Look for trends and patterns

The Fibonacci tool is a series of numbers derived from a simple equation created by Leonardo Fibonacci back in the thirteenth century.

It's used to predict future price levels based on previous price movements, which can help traders anticipate when markets will reverse course or continue trending.

The most common use for this tool is identifying potential support and resistance levels for currencies, commodities, stocks, or other assets. This can be done by drawing horizontal lines through past peaks or troughs of an asset's price action chart (or candlestick chart).

If prices bounce off these lines, they're likely to continue moving in that direction until they encounter another line drawn at a different level below/above it—and so forth until there's no more room left on your chart.

 8. Start small and work up from there

You should start small and increase your stake as you gain confidence. In other words, don't put all your eggs in one basket. Or, don't invest all of your money when you're just starting.

Instead, start with a small sum or even a demo account (more on that next) to practice first and experiment with different strategies before committing to any of them.

 9. Test on a demo account first

Demo accounts are free and allow you to practice trading in real-time without risking your capital.

Many online resources explain how to use the tools and indicators on various trading platforms, so don't waste time fiddling around with all these different things until you're comfortable using them.

There are plenty of people out there who will give away their money by not testing their strategies before putting them to work...so don't be one of them!

 10. Don't bet against the trend

You should never bet against the trend when trading in the forex market. Why would you think otherwise if everyone else thinks that the market will go up? It doesn't make any sense!

When trading currencies, your goal is to find an opportunity where there is an imbalance between the supply and demand of a specific currency so one can buy low and sell high later.