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Tuesday, January 2, 2007

4 Basic Trading Principles

The fundamental requirement for an online trader, except money, is a trading plan, designed according to his requirements and financial status. A well designed trading plan must contain 4 must do trading principles such as Trading with the Trend, Minimizing Losses, Letting the Profit Run and Managing the Risks.

1. Trading with the Trend

An online trader, trading stocks, options, futures, commodities or forex, must trade according to the direction of price movement. The major factor which determines this process is your style of trader. If you are a long term investor, so called position trader, you can follow weekly or monthly trends. On the other hand if you are a short-term trader or day trader you have to follow hourly trend changes.

Today there are many advanced online trading systems which offer excellent historical as well as intraday charting packages available. These systems can help you to pick stock, options or so. Trading with the trend may be little complex principle for beginners to follow, but is the most crucial principle of the four. (next : Minimizing the Losses; stay tuned)

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