Creating successful trading strategies and sticking to them is the best way to find long term success in the forex market. It can be tempting to get off your trading strategy sometimes but it is always a good idea once you have identified a winning strategy to stick with the rules of it no matter what.
Here are a few ideas that when worked into your trading strategy will make it better.
Keep your ideas simple. The best trading strategies are easy to understand, learn and master. The more complicated your strategy is the more difficult it is to use on several different types of trading.
Automation and speed are your friends. The reality is to make money day trading you need to be quick and aware of what is going on in the market basically 24 hours a day. Most of us need to sleep at least a few of those hours per day so the best way to handle this is with software that can automate your trading strategy.
Do not create a strategy that makes it so you have to be tied to stock charts all day to be successful. When you create strategies like this and miss a good trade because you are not in front of your computer it can be very frustrating. Instead you should again use automation and software to do this analysis for you and trade based on its findings and your trading rules.
Stay disciplined. Most trading losses come when a day trader decides to go off strategy. You must stick to your strategy and not let emotion get in the way. This is another area automation can pay off. Unlike you your software does not get upset when it is not getting the desired results. It will continue to use tried and true strategies and most likely land you in a good place.
Stay consistent. Consistency in your trading will bring you the best results. It all goes back to if you have determined a trading strategy that works for you it is a good idea to keep following it and not venture away from it. Consistency will make you a lot of money and not being consistent will lose you a lot of money. So stick to what works for you.
Keeping these things in mind and following them will create winning trading strategies that you can use day after day.