Your success as a Forex trader is measured primarily by your commitment to studying the markets, learning trading signals, being patient, and waiting until good trades make themselves known. It is also important to manage your money by the amount of lots you trade and where you place the stop losses.
Avoid comparing yourself to other currency traders and measuring the outward results of your efforts against theirs. Remember that traders have different styles and will make money at different paces in different times. Your responsibility is to develop your trading skills so you can make correct trading decisions. As you are learning you will have losses. You should not, however, become discouraged; discouragement will weaken your trading ability and cloud your judgment. You want to keep your expectations high. If you lower your expectations, your effectiveness will decrease, your desire will weaken, and you will have greater difficulty making good trades.
You can know you have become a successful Forex trader when you:
- Feel in tune with the market.
- Love to trade and take the profits the market wants to give.
- Obey trading rules with exactness.
- Live so your body and mind are rested and healthy.
- Trade effectively every day, do your best to seek knowledge, learn, and improve.
- Help to build up other traders wherever you go.
- Warn people of the consequences of poor trading and money management practices.
- Teach and serve other traders.
- Help other traders at every opportunity, whether or not you will be paid for helping.