Always remember that some unexpected event like a natural disaster, war or unexpected death of a political leader could throw the whole market into confusion. Or what if your telephone lines go down and your web connection is lost?
Risk handling is critical for successful forex trading. You can succeed without being the ideal technical analyst but you cannot earn money with worldwide foreign exchange trading without understanding risk management.
If you’re risking too much on each trade then at some time or another your funds will be wiped out. So risk must be optimised for your system. It relies on drawdown and average profit or loss per trade, but a good rough guide is to risk between 1% and five percent of your funds on each trade. Only take the higher figure if losing your complete balance wouldn’t be a tragedy. Generally, the more money a trader has in their account, the more careful they’re with it. Some traders consider that having a set risk per trade is too inflexible and the risk should depend on the power of a signal. That is fine as long as the variable risk is still defined according to the system. What you want to avoid is varying the risk dependent on intuition, or depending on the result you had from the last trade. That may be a recipe for disaster in worldwide currency trading.