Can You Learn To Trade Like a Hedge Fund Manager? (Part I)
There is a difference between a professional trader and an amateur trader. A professional trader never goes into a trade blindly whereas an amateur always trades based on his/her emotions. If you want to become a professional, than learn from hedge fund managers. You see hedge fund managers have to show good results to their investors for getting investments into their funds. Hedge fund managers have to convince their clients with a battle tested strategy.
As individual traders, our $5,000 account is as important as any $25 million hedge fund. In fact, our $5,000 account is more important. We are betting our own hard earned money on currency trading. A hedge fund manager is most likely trading with other peoples money.
Most of the hedge fund managers follow a step by step process to develop their forex trading strategies. There is no reason why should we as individual traders also not follow that step by step process to develop our own trading strategies. We cant afford to lose our hard earned money in unsuccessful trading.
One thing must be clear from the start; every trader has to find his/her own edge. We can and should learn from others. But, it is our own methods and insights that will make us succeed as forex traders. Lets discuss the step by step process of developing our own trading strategies like the hedge fund managers do.
Start by properly defining your trading strategy. Every hedge fund manager like every individual trader follows a different methodology. Some traders use fundamental analysis. Other traders use technical analysis.
The first thing that you need to figure out is the style of trading that best suits you and what type of trader you are. Are you a short term trader like most day traders? Are you a long term trader and want to swing trade or position trade?
Decide whether you want to trade based on fundamentals or technicals or a combination of both methods. Hedge fund managers develop their trading strategies by defining clear cut trading rules, coding them and making detailed rules. This helps them avoid the pitfalls of emotional trading.
Trading based on your emotions is not good. It will ruin you as a trader in the long run. Make a rule based forex system that is mechanical with clear cut steps that you will follow in order to make your trading unemotional.
You should decide whether you want to be a news trader. Whether you will use technical indicators in your trading, if so which ones and how! You cant trade all the currency pairs. You need to pick a few currency pairs and master their behavior. Not all currency pairs are created equal and you need to focus on only a few to become a successful long term trader.
Every currency pair requires a different trading strategy to make pips. You need to understand this. Some trading strategies work best on one currency pair but dont work on others. Read more in Part II of this article how hedge fund managers develop their trading strategies step by step. - 23226
As individual traders, our $5,000 account is as important as any $25 million hedge fund. In fact, our $5,000 account is more important. We are betting our own hard earned money on currency trading. A hedge fund manager is most likely trading with other peoples money.
Most of the hedge fund managers follow a step by step process to develop their forex trading strategies. There is no reason why should we as individual traders also not follow that step by step process to develop our own trading strategies. We cant afford to lose our hard earned money in unsuccessful trading.
One thing must be clear from the start; every trader has to find his/her own edge. We can and should learn from others. But, it is our own methods and insights that will make us succeed as forex traders. Lets discuss the step by step process of developing our own trading strategies like the hedge fund managers do.
Start by properly defining your trading strategy. Every hedge fund manager like every individual trader follows a different methodology. Some traders use fundamental analysis. Other traders use technical analysis.
The first thing that you need to figure out is the style of trading that best suits you and what type of trader you are. Are you a short term trader like most day traders? Are you a long term trader and want to swing trade or position trade?
Decide whether you want to trade based on fundamentals or technicals or a combination of both methods. Hedge fund managers develop their trading strategies by defining clear cut trading rules, coding them and making detailed rules. This helps them avoid the pitfalls of emotional trading.
Trading based on your emotions is not good. It will ruin you as a trader in the long run. Make a rule based forex system that is mechanical with clear cut steps that you will follow in order to make your trading unemotional.
You should decide whether you want to be a news trader. Whether you will use technical indicators in your trading, if so which ones and how! You cant trade all the currency pairs. You need to pick a few currency pairs and master their behavior. Not all currency pairs are created equal and you need to focus on only a few to become a successful long term trader.
Every currency pair requires a different trading strategy to make pips. You need to understand this. Some trading strategies work best on one currency pair but dont work on others. Read more in Part II of this article how hedge fund managers develop their trading strategies step by step. - 23226
About the Author:
Mr. Ahmad Hassam is a Harvard University Graduate. He is interested in day trading and swing trading stocks and currencies. Learn Forex Nitty Gritty. Read about Trend Forex System. Try Netpicks Forex Signal Service.
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