In Forex trading, there are five common reasons traders get wiped out when implementing their Forex trading strategy.

If you can avoid these mistakes and its simple to do, you can enter the elite 10% of online Forex traders that make consistent capital gains from the markets.

Here are the mistakes you need to avoid.

1. Learn the right knowledge

Many new online currency traders work hard and put in effort - but they don’t acquire the right Forex education.

FOREX trading attracts some of the cleverest people around, these traders are smart, but think they have a right to make money because of this.

Being clever and having an ego however, can be a bad trait to have in Forex trading.

These Forex traders tend to see the market the way they want to see it, not the way it really is.

If you want to make money, be humble , and simply focus on the main objective of Forex trading making money.

Humble trader who does not have an ego will beat a clever arrogant who’s obsessed with beating the market.

2. Keep It Simple

As stated in point 1, being clever doesn’t mean you’ll achieve success in online Forex trading.

You should also concentrate on trading using a simple system.

Many Forex traders think the more complicated their system is, the more successful the system is likely to be – Nothing could be further from the truth.

Simple systems are more robust than complicated systems, in the face of ever changing market conditions.

When developing your own Forex method, keep it simple and you will make money over complicate it and you will lose.

3. Accept Responsibility

When you’re trading currencies, it’s tempting to follow a guru, mentor or e-book seller who claims to have made money.

The Internet is full of Forex education you can buy for a few hundred dollars - and they all claim it’ll make you rich - but the reality is different!

The only way to succeed is to rely on yourself so don’t follow others and lose.

4. Don’t be too subjective

In Forex trading, the bulk of traders like to use technical analysis, and study Forex charts.

Studying charts can make you a lot of money, but you must NOT be too subjective.

Avoid methods such as Elliot Wave and cycles – instead use indicators that define trends.

Good indicators to use in conjunction with trend lines are:

Moving averages, MACD, RSI, stochastics and Bollinger bands.

This will keep you objective and focused and help keep your emotions out of trading.

5. Patience & chasing your tail

Many traders in FX trading want to achieve success quickly.

They start trading using one method, get frustrated with it when it doesn’t make money, and then switch to a different method and continually end up chasing their tail!

Bad periods are normally followed by good trading periods, (if you’re using a robust logical Forex trading system) so you need to stick with your Forex

Trading strategy through losing periods to reap longer term FX profits.

Know Your advantage

Ask yourself this simple question:

Why should I succeed when 95% of forex traders lose?

This is your trading advantage– if you don’t know what it is - you don’t have one and will join the losing majority.

Forex trading is not as complicated, or as hard as many traders think – you need to work hard in the right areas and be disciplined in your pursuit of success.

Fact is anyone prepared to learn Forex trading the right way, can become a consistent and profitable Forex trader.