Money Advice Guide

Motivational guru Tony Robbins teaches that the reason for doing something rates much higher than the methods you use to get the job done. In order to make your goal REAL, you need to attach severe, horrifying, intense and profound fear to failure.

Open up a notepad either on a desk or on your computer in a quite place and write a 50-page letter to yourself surrounding this question:

– What is going to happen to me 20 years from now if I do not learn the successful skills I need to know in order to become a brilliant or the best on line trader?

Write your answers in detailed pictured thoughts. I have found that writing in length brings out the hidden agenda into realms of things that are too painful to face. This pain aids you to move into a different direction.

Now do the same exercise for this question:

– Ask yourself - Why do you want to become the best trader online?
– What kind of trader do I want to become? Good proposal examples: online stock trader, online forex trader etc.
– What trader market research would I like to pursue? The most popular illustrations: online daytrader, online swing trader etc.
– What systems would I like to learn as a trader? A good example might be as an online fibonacci trader.

See, if you have a strong enough WHY that answers the following questions pertaining to trading - then you will find a way, no matter how difficult the pain, to get the job done. Here are some ideas for your 50-page letter.

– Do you want to create a stream of passive income?
– Do you want to create a sense of security for yourself about where your next check will come from?
– Do you want to earn income that will act as an extra supplement source cash so that you can afford some of the finer things in life instead of living paycheck to paycheck?

In his “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” series of books, Robert Kyosaki advises against anyone securing a part time job. Instead, Kyosaki suggests starting a part time business.

In my opinion, profitable trading is the perfect business and the best home based business opportunity. It is capitalism’s best kept secret that will allow you to work at home. The market makes no distinction about your wealth, educational level, ethnic background or any other aspect of your identity. There is no room for office politics, difficult bosses or tricky employees in this arena. You can trade from anywhere. Follow a few simple rules, and you can run your business as you see fit.

That said; if trading successfully were easy, everyone would reap the profits. The truth is most people that trade will lose money. This is an unpleasant fact for a number of reasons. Nevertheless, the primary cause of why so many people lose money trading is that they simply do not know how to trade.

If you do not know how to trade, that does not mean that you are not smart. On the contrary, many highly intelligent people lose millions of dollars in the market.

If you do not know how to trade, the conclusion is simple - you do not have a:

+ Coach / Mentor and or a
+ System

Most people never master trading because it seems difficult to win and they seldom have access to an experienced, successful trader or trading methodology that actually works. They usually go it alone or attend countless seminars and read even more books. Not that reading books are bad, but in most cases, nearly but not everyone ever reaps excellent results. How do I know this? Because I have actually been there

Trading successfully is difficult if you do not know what you are doing. Let me show you how to achieve trading success and shortcut your learning curve dramatically. If you have a strong desire to succeed, put in a little work and after a bit of practice, it will become easy.

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Traders deal with two different kinds of returns when they speak of profits and losses made in the markets. Realized returns, often referred to as “booked”, are those which come about as the result of a position which has been closed out. Unrealized, or “paper”, gains and losses are those which involve open positions. An example of a paper return would be when one buys a stock at $100 and it rises to $110, but the trade remains open. In this case the trader has an unrealized gain of $10. Were the trade to be closed out at that price, that $10 gain would become a realized, or booked, profit.

While it may seem a fairly trivial point, the concept of paper vs. booked returns is an important one in the realm of trading and money management. Debates are often had as to whether paper losses are real, or whether they only become real when actualized. This is a key distinction which can play a major role in how one trades, depending on the market in question.

Where one is trading primarily in cash terms in a market like stocks, the differentiation between paper and booked returns is not very important. No matter how much the market moves either in favor or against a trader’s open position, it does not impact her/his ability to enter further trades. Imagine, for example, a trader has a $10,000 account, and buys 100 shares of XYZ at $50. That leaves $5000 remaining in the account ($10,000 - $50 x 100, not accounting for transaction fees). It matters not at all whether XYZ rises or falls. The trader will still have $5000 available to enter new positions. This only changes when the XYZ shares are sold and the profit or loss booked.

When one trades a market such as futures and spot foreign exchange, however, there really is no such thing as paper returns because these markets are based on margin. As such, all profits and losses are realized because they directly impact one’s available margin. Let us again imagine a trader with a $10,000 starting account value, this time in the futures market. If the margin requirement for a 10-year note futures contract is $2500, and the trader buys two contracts, then the account is left with $5000 in available margin. If that 10-year note contract rises by a point, the trader would have a profit of $2000 on the position (1 point on a 10-year futures contract is equivalent to a 1% move in the value of a $100,000 position, or $1000). Unlike in stocks, this $2000 gain is very real in that the trader now has $7000 in available margin to put to use on other trades. Were the 10-year note to instead fall by a point, however, the trader would only have $3000 free to use as margin on new positions.

Understanding the impact of realized and unrealized returns is something key in the development of both money management schemes and trading systems. Failure to recognize how these differences play-out in one’s account can lead to major errors in the assumptions underlying position sizing, and exposure. It can mean the difference between a worthwhile system and a useless one, or between a safe risk profile and a reckless one.

Copyright © 2005 by Anduril, Inc. Permission is granted to reproduce this article so long as the full text and resource/author section, including all links, are included.

John Forman is author of The Essentials of Trading (Wiley - April 2006), and a near 20 year veteran of trading and analyzing the markets. Visit Anduril Analytics to learn more about his trading, market analysis, and research activities and to find out how you can get a copy of Anduril’s free report on what every trader and investor needs to succeed.

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