I'm sure there are times when all of us look at a chart during a trade and think, 'I really need to lock in that profit before the market turns'. But what happens if this decision goes against your system that you have worked so hard to establish over hours and possibly even years of paper and real trading? I'm not going to lie, I struggle with this myself more often then I would like.

Everyone has had a day where they were following their well planned system, and then they walked away from the computer only to find a horrible loss waiting to greet them when they get home.

Trading the foreign currency markets takes a fair amount of time no matter what system you use. When I first started trading, I found that I wanted to create a system using Metatrader that will trade itself while I was either in the classroom or on the golf course.

There are times when you start rubbing your hands together and stare at the computer screen with a sinister look. If I had a handlebar mustache I would be twirling it at the corners.

Getting started in forex will, put plain and simply, make your head spin. There is alot of garbage out there, and even more dead ends than there are culdesacs in suburbs. I won't begin to tell you which broker to choose because that is another post for another time.