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Understand Your Personal Trading Style to Increase Profits

What type of trader are you? Understanding your trading style can help you increase your trading profits because it helps you concentrate on those aspects that are most important to you.

How much time do you have to spend at your computer? Are you comfortable carrying trades overnight, over a week, or longer? Are you comfortable leaving your trades alone while you are not monitoring the charts and news events?

Many Day traders and swing traders close all their trades before they leave the computer for an extended amount of time, to make sure they don't come back to a bad surprise. Longer-term traders can leave trades open for days or weeks, and only monitor status periodically.

If you are not comfortable leaving your trades alone for an extended amount of time, then you are probably a day trader or swing trader. Day and swing trades tend to rely on tight stops and technical analysis. Short term traders should concentrate on the more popular currency pairs with high liquidity, so that they can easily enter and exit trades.

Long-term traders rely more on Fundamental Analysis of worldwide economic conditions. Long term traders may concentrate on the less popular currency pairs with lower volatility, so that they don't get stopped out as much.

If you prefer Technical Analysis, then you will be making trade decisions based on price charts. You may be looking at support and resistance bands, overbought and oversold conditions, or chart patterns, etc. You will also have to make decisions on what time frames you are most interested in and how you will use those time frames for your buy and sell decisions.

Your trading style should also influence your choice of market maker. If you are a swing trader, the spread is more important to you. Choosing a market maker with smaller spreads will increase your profits. If you are a risk taker, you may want to go for market makers with higher margins. If you are risk-averse you may want to go for market makers with lower margins.

It doesn't matter what your trading style is. What does matter is that you understand what your trading style is and make the choices that complement your trading style and increase the profits of your particular trading style.





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