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Your Two Choices

Instantly when you choose to trade forex online, you have two basic choices. You can do as most people and trade a manual system. Or you can trade an automatic system. Recent advances in technology have made robot-traded accounts available to everyone who wants to use them.

To make it even better, they don't cost an arm and a leg. If you do it all yourself, it won't cost you anything except time.

Manual

Most people chose to trade a manual system. They buy some ebook and learn the system inside of it. Listen, that can work, but there are some difficulties that you may not have thought of.

For example, how much time do you have to devote to your trading? Do you have enough? Furthermore, are you available to trade at the right times? There are times when the forex market's liquidity dries up. If you try to trade during those times you will find that the spread can be larger and getting out of a trade without slippage is next to impossible.

Of course I'm not taking a poop on manual trading. After all I do it myself. I'm just trying to warn you of all the hype. You need to have your schedule and trading routine all thought out.

If you haven't got the time necessary to devote to trading the old-fashioned way, you can have your computer trade for you.

Automatic

I've heard a lot of nonsense about automated trading. I've heard things like it's the end all solution. You'll hear of people that are selling there systems that supposedly make 1350% annual returns (yes, I saw a system for $37 that would automatically trade your account and make that kind of money).

You've heard the saying, "If it seems too good to be true, it probably is. " This applies here. If it sounds like hype, it is.

On the other hand, I've talked with traders who refuse absolutely to let a computer handle their trading. It's scares them to death. Under no circumstances would they let a computer enter a buy or sell order for them.

This is ridiculous. Some of the best traders in the world, profiled in the Market Wizard books, use and speak very highly of automated trading.

However, using a computer to trade for you isn't just and easy ride to riches. You still have to build the trading system and test it. If you don't know a lick of programming, that could prove difficult for you. (There are programmers/traders who will code a system for you for a fee.)

If you use the popular MetaTrader program, your platform will be free. They even include a tutorial so you know how to program a trading system using their language. The thing is, you will need to leave you computer on at all times. You will also need a high speed internet connection. Any time your internet goes down, you are disconnected from the trading. The stops and all that reside on your system and not on the server.

Proven

It doesn't matter whether you are thinking of trading manually or automated, or whether you are thinking of making your own trading system, or whether you are thinking of purchasing a ready-made one. You need a system that is proven.

That starts with making sure if you purchase one, that the merchant stands behind it. The next step is the same whether you purchase or make it yourself. You must test the system yourself before spending any money trading it.

Just paper trade it. It's the best way to test easily. Be sure never to buy a system that you can't test and return. If they won't let you return it if your paper trading proves it to be unprofitable, pick a different system. That's all there is to it. There are plenty of systems to choose from.