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As you can see in the chart above, there are three powerful pin bar
signals. When the market approaches the 21 moving average that acts
as a resistance level, sellers reject buyers, and form a pin bar that gives
us a good entry point.
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Money management strategies
Now you have the strategies, you know how to analyze the market,
you know when to buy, when to sell, and when to exit, you know also
when to stay away from the market.
This is important for you as a trader to know, but you are still missing
the key to the castle. The money management plan.
The most important thing that traders don’t talk about is the money
management. This is what makes a difference
between successful
traders and losers.
If you trade without a money management plan, you are just wasting
your time and money. Because nothing is going to work for you, even
if you have the most powerful trading system in the world.
Most traders focus on how to enter the market, they spend months
and years looking for the right system. i don’t want you to think like
them, you should think differently if you want to become a successful
trader.
Money management: Position sizing
One of the most important component
of money management is
position sizing, what i mean by position sizing is the number of lots you
are risking per trade.
All forex brokers now offer mini lots as the default position size. The
smallest value for a mini lot is approximately 1$.
There are forex brokers that offer 10
cents for a mini lot which
represent an opportunity for traders who don’t have bigger accounts,
they can begin with 250$, and they still have chance to grow it.
When it comes to position sizing, you should think in terms of dollars
instead of pips. Let’s say you are trading 3 mini lots of CAD/USA, this
means you bought or sold 30.000 worth of us dollars.