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Just What Makes A Successful Forex Trader?

If you were to divide foreign currency traders into two groups the successful and the not so successful would it be possible to pick out those characteristics which separate the two groups?

It does not really matter what we do in life, and that includes Forex trading, but, whatever we do, one thing that will have more affect on our success than anything else we do will be goal setting.

It is a simple fact that the human mind works best when it has a clear roadmap to follow and, in setting a goal, you start the process of building your roadmap by clearly defining the end point of your journey. However fixing a destination is not sufficient and you will also have to define the route to follow to reach your destination. Let's look at an example.

Suppose you decide you want to build a fortune as a Forex trader, and who doesn't after all! This is not however much help as any goal which you set needs to be measurable, otherwise you will have no way of knowing whether or not you have reached it. So, at this point, you have to be clear about precisely what you mean when you talk about a 'fortune'.

Let us assume therefore you decide to set a goal of making $1,000,000 in the next year. You now have a clear destination. The next problem is that, as you are probably new to the world of Forex trading, are still trying to learn the ropes and may have only limited money to invest at this point, making $1,000,000 in the next year is perhaps an unrealistic goal.

In addition to being measurable, any goal also has to be realistic. It is immaterial what goal you set yourself in Forex trading, but it has to be within your capabilities. There is no point in deciding that you are going to win Wimbledon if you have never even held a tennis racket.

So, rather than aiming for $1,000,000 let us set a more realistic target of say $120,000. Once we have done this, we then have to split this figure up into marker posts to add to our roadmap and this can be achieved by viewing our target on a monthly as opposed to a yearly basis. This will give us a dozen $10,000 markers. However, if we keep going along these lines we can then break our goal down further into $2,500 weekly markers.

Now we have something which we are able to view against our current experience and it is a reasonably simple matter to see whether or not this figure is possible. Is it possible, against the background of your recent experience, to make $2,500 trading foreign currencies in the next week?

Goals must be measurable and realistic, but they also have to be attainable. It is all very well to set a realistic goal, but you also need to have the right tools, in the right place at the right time to reach that goal. If you are currently making $750 a week then you are probably not going to turn this into $2,500 overnight so, in this instance, your goal is not attainable and you will have to go back to the beginning and start over again.

But, if $2,500 is attainable, then there is one additional step that needs to be taken before you are ready to set off on your journey. This last step is to paint a picture in your mind's eye of your destination.

Although you have set a goal of making $120,000 in the next year, the money by itself is not really what you are aiming for, but it is what you can do with the money which is important. So, having made your $120,000 what are you going to do with it? If you want to buy yourself a new SUV then paint a picture in your mind's eye of driving off into the sunset with the roof down and now you will truly have a goal.

If you want to achieve success in Forex trading then you must set yourself a goal which is measurable, realistic and attainable and than paint a picture of that goal in your mind's eye. If you do this you will be surprised at how easy a matter it is to reach your destination.

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