Create Your Own Wealth! Invest!
- Date: 2008-10-13 - Word Count: 762
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Printing your own money might be a shade illegal in most countries. Well actually almost every country I've been to have laws against that! So you decide to be a down-to-earth sort and take up a regular job and save while you earn.
Working a regular job will probably not make you rich, which is the sad truth, my friend. In fact the only person who will see the riches is most likely the person who employed you!
So what's left on the table for you to do? You could do something dangerous like smuggling or shark hunting. The time for you to face the cold hard truth! You need not fret; there is a better and easier way to make money. Instead of printing the money ourselves, we will do the next best thing and we will buy and sell money!
Sounds crazy isn't it, but that is what Forex is all about. We are talking about the purchase and sales of currencies. What you are really trading in is the underlying strength of the economies that these currencies represent.
Look up our site to find out more on that.
So once you do decide to start creating your wealth through investing, you will have to learn about the different methods of actually turning profits made into real cash.
First of all, you must know that profits made during successful trades are not money until you sell out and cash in. This is a hugely important point! Let's say you get involved in a trade and everything is going your way. All of a sudden the trade turns against you! Wham! You lose money. Money is not money till it sits tight in your account.
The one method to create wealth is to cash out on a trade every time you do make any gains. This way you will always have your base amount that can be used to reinvest and your account grows with compounding interest. Let's touch on the concept of compounding. This is the baby that will make your road to riches smoother. Let's say that you make one dollar profit each trade. You add that to you account and the next time your trade; you trade with a slightly larger amount! Imagine that for a year you, how many times do you trade? A couple of thousand times, that small dollar of yours will add up to a lot of money for you.
How else do you create your wealth via trading? Well the next tip is that you only focus on high probability trades. You have a trading plan and that plan will tell you if the trade you are seeing is a good deal or not. Now some plans are better then others but keep in mind that you will not win all the time. There will times that you lose as well.
The question here is how much you should set your profit objectives each time you invest. Now I am going to assume that you will be using a stop loss for your trades.
The rule of thumb is that you should be looking to set your minimum profit targets at 1.5 times of your stop loss. You will need to set a secondary profit target of 2 times your stop loss as well. For example if your stop loss is 10 pips, you set 15 and 20 pips as your profit targets. If the trade goes to 15 pips, you shift your stop loss to your entry point, and then set your new target at 20 pips. This means that you have just protected your account and gave yourself a chance to make a certain profit.
That leads us to our next point. To create wealth we must first protect the account we have. Visualize this, you are a farmer and when you go and sow your seeds in the fields you most likely won't want the birds to be around pecking away at your seeds. After all you have only a limited amount of seeds to begin with! If the birds peck away at all your seeds then come harvest time there won't be a lot for you to do at all. Winter will be a lean season…
Proper Money Management is the corner stone of any investment plan or wealth creation strategy. To create wealth you have to first understand what is important and target those areas. Focus your efforts in build a sizeable account with money management, tackle high probability trades and lastly always cash out of your position when you have met your profit targets.
Working a regular job will probably not make you rich, which is the sad truth, my friend. In fact the only person who will see the riches is most likely the person who employed you!
So what's left on the table for you to do? You could do something dangerous like smuggling or shark hunting. The time for you to face the cold hard truth! You need not fret; there is a better and easier way to make money. Instead of printing the money ourselves, we will do the next best thing and we will buy and sell money!
Sounds crazy isn't it, but that is what Forex is all about. We are talking about the purchase and sales of currencies. What you are really trading in is the underlying strength of the economies that these currencies represent.
Look up our site to find out more on that.
So once you do decide to start creating your wealth through investing, you will have to learn about the different methods of actually turning profits made into real cash.
First of all, you must know that profits made during successful trades are not money until you sell out and cash in. This is a hugely important point! Let's say you get involved in a trade and everything is going your way. All of a sudden the trade turns against you! Wham! You lose money. Money is not money till it sits tight in your account.
The one method to create wealth is to cash out on a trade every time you do make any gains. This way you will always have your base amount that can be used to reinvest and your account grows with compounding interest. Let's touch on the concept of compounding. This is the baby that will make your road to riches smoother. Let's say that you make one dollar profit each trade. You add that to you account and the next time your trade; you trade with a slightly larger amount! Imagine that for a year you, how many times do you trade? A couple of thousand times, that small dollar of yours will add up to a lot of money for you.
How else do you create your wealth via trading? Well the next tip is that you only focus on high probability trades. You have a trading plan and that plan will tell you if the trade you are seeing is a good deal or not. Now some plans are better then others but keep in mind that you will not win all the time. There will times that you lose as well.
The question here is how much you should set your profit objectives each time you invest. Now I am going to assume that you will be using a stop loss for your trades.
The rule of thumb is that you should be looking to set your minimum profit targets at 1.5 times of your stop loss. You will need to set a secondary profit target of 2 times your stop loss as well. For example if your stop loss is 10 pips, you set 15 and 20 pips as your profit targets. If the trade goes to 15 pips, you shift your stop loss to your entry point, and then set your new target at 20 pips. This means that you have just protected your account and gave yourself a chance to make a certain profit.
That leads us to our next point. To create wealth we must first protect the account we have. Visualize this, you are a farmer and when you go and sow your seeds in the fields you most likely won't want the birds to be around pecking away at your seeds. After all you have only a limited amount of seeds to begin with! If the birds peck away at all your seeds then come harvest time there won't be a lot for you to do at all. Winter will be a lean season…
Proper Money Management is the corner stone of any investment plan or wealth creation strategy. To create wealth you have to first understand what is important and target those areas. Focus your efforts in build a sizeable account with money management, tackle high probability trades and lastly always cash out of your position when you have met your profit targets.
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Dr. Joshua Geralds is a successful investment specialist with over twenty years experience increasing the income of people world wide. For a limited time get his free Money Management to a Million Dollars e-course here: www.pipsalot.com Your Article Search Directory : Find in Articles
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