Anyone who is involved in forex trading industry will inevitably have noticed that the forex robots continue to grow in popularity. These robots, which are normally automated expert advisors, which are set up to work on MetaTrader4 platform, capable of trading in the markets for you. But the problem is that it will almost always end up losing money in the long term.
There are several reasons. The first reason is that many of them fail to adapt to changing market conditions. This is understandable because they are programmed to enter the position on certain criteria being met, but unfortunately you can not filter out, set-up, which occur in times of low volatility, for example, or if there are any significant market-moving because of the notice to be implemented.
The second reason, and probably the biggest reason why so many of them lose money because they use poor money management techniques. The key to successful forex trading is to forget to use high amounts of leverage to try to get rich overnight, but try to look stable profits, so your capital slowly builds over time.
You should try to minimize losses by using strict stop loss policy (and will adhere to this policy throughout the period), while maximizing their profits by letting it run as long as possible. Unfortunately you can not really using forex robot, because they are programmed so that profits and reduce losses in certain places.
Worst still, you will often find that many of these robots use very large losses, while the station targeting only relatively low profits, which is the complete opposite of what you should do. For example, you often find that many robots will employ to stem losses as high as 500 points. In other words, stop loss so far that in most cases it probably will not run. However, if so, you are guaranteed a great loss.
It is bad enough, but if profit targets are relatively small and, say 50-100 points, it is a very dangerous way to trade the markets. Certainly can get a very high percentage of winning trades, but a few shops losses could be enough to erase you.
So you should be very cautious when using one of the many forex robots, which targets small to obtain and use a much larger loss, stopped, because it is the main reason why so many of them into trouble.
There are very few robots that make money, but they are definitely in the minority. If successful, because it is the use of sound money and are able to trade various market conditions.
Sunday, October 11, 2009
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