Money and Risk Management

Theoretical knowledge and experience are needed in order to earn money on any financial market. This work experience includes:

• Fundamental analysis
• Technical analysis
• Money and risk management

    Fundamental analysis allows to determine the dependence of exchange rates of different currencies on the economic situation of countries; explains the purposes and instruments of central bank's financial policy; and reveals the proportion of different financial markets, reasons for their development and stagnation. Fundamental analysis is used for middle and long-term prognosis; it evaluates the perspectives of a market situation. It is built on fundamental mutually intertwined economic factors. The biggest difficulty lies in the fact that changes in one of those factors can influence all the rest, the number of which varies from 20 to 50 depending on the country. That's why fundamental analysis is not used by everyone. Only 10-20 % of traders apply it in their practice.

    Technical analysis includes examination of price diagrams, price history, and the number of changes in quotation within a certain period of time. It's very convenient to use because data on prices is available online. Technical analysis mainly gives information about market activity and only conditionally about market volume considering only short periods of time called time-frames.

    Money and risk management is the third and also very important aspect of the trading system. Financial operations on Forex are very risky, and often the higher the supposed profit the higher the risk. Following all rules of money and risk management helps reduce losses and increase profits.

    Money and risk management appeared in 18th century, when it was applied in gambling to raise the chances for winning. Mature players followed their own strategies, incurred losses to enjoy profits later. Working on financial markets is similar to gambling because both profits and losses are not predictable. That's why principles of money and risk managements started to be used in the financial sphere.

    It often happens that beginner traders do not take aspects of money and risk management seriously; but this mistake can lead to failure even with a good trade strategy. Not just sums of earned money are important in trading; amounts of losses during work add to success as well. That's why it's recommended to calculate the portion of risk-subjected capital for successful trading.