While we are talking about different ways of trading the Forex
market, I want to touch on what I feel is a widely believed “myth”
regarding automated robot and indicator-based trading systems…
You are probably going to come across many Forex website selling
Forex software that they claim will fully mechanize the process of
trading, so that all you have to do is click your mouse when the
software tells you to and then rake in the profits. You need to
constantly keep in mind the old saying “If it sounds too good to be true
it probably is…” when you are learning to trade Forex. Like I said
before, you are probably going to come across a lot of these robot
websites if you have not already. You are best served by ignoring them
all together.
You will probably see track records that they claim are
“indisputable” evidence of the robots performance in the markets…what
they don’t tell you is that this track record is simply a display of a
“perfect” set of data that the software was back-tested on. The point is
that trading software cannot work over the long-term because the market
is constantly changing and as such, it takes the discerning discretion
of the human brain to effectively trade the markets over the long-term. I
am not saying that computer software has no place in trading, but it
cannot be the only thing you rely on, and it certainly should not be
used in attempt to fully-automate the trading process. The ability to
read the raw price action of a market and grow and evolve with the
ever-changing conditions of the market is how I personally trade and how
I teach my students to trade.
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