My Experience Learning To Trade Forex Virtually

by Maximilian Seiler
(Germany)

Trading Forex sounds easy until you start looking at the specifics. It really is easy to make a trade and understand the basic currency pairs. Yet, Forex is much more complicated than that. That is why the experienced traders and brokers recommend people trading with a virtual account to start learning the market. That is my experience learning to trade Forex. To date, I've only used two virtual accounts and haven't traded with real money yet.

Are you itching to trade real money on the Forex market? If so, you're willing to go further than I am at the moment. Just make sure you know enough about the currency pairs and are comfortable with certain Forex strategies. You have to understand the trades you're making, or there is no point in making them. You want your trades to be profitable, and you want to repeat that success time and time again.

If you trade often, you're likely going to run into times when things don't go your way. You have to know when to back out of a trade when it comes to the Forex market. It's not the type of market that is known for traders riding things out for too long.