If you are losing with foreign exchange, you probably need a foreign exchange trading course that may turn those losses into profits. Naturally this is the purpose of any currency trading course, but only in the sense of the final analysis.

No-one can have profitable trades 100 percent of the time. Even the most perfect trader who never makes a single foolish mistake will have times where the market just doesn’t follow his plan. So a specific quantity of losses must be accepted. It isn’t an issue of getting rid of the losses, but of reducing them so they come out to less than the profits. The best way is just to record the loss on the spreadsheet where you record all of your trades, together with the trigger, the stop loss that you set, and what occurred. Then move on .

There’s no need to analyze it to death at the moment. You can look at all of your trading at the end of the week or month and determine whether any patterns are developing. It has happened and that’s it. But you can cut back your anxiety about losses by knowing your system very completely. All systems go through bad times when they just appear to lose and lose, even when you are doing everything by the book. You’ll have seen that happening in back tests, if your back tests were inclusive.

From those back test results you should be able to prepare a calculation of the drawdown of your system. This is the most that you would expect to lose during a bad run.

So look for the worst run of losses in the back testing results. Then it slowly began to recover, and made it back up to one thousand. The drawdown here is the difference between one thousand and 650, i.e. 350 or 35 percent.