What Is a Trading System?

Before I get to the main discussion, I will quote a sentence that was written by Sun Tzu, the contents are as follows:

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.

Why you need a trading system?

For a change of traders are losers become a profitable trader, you need a trading system. The question is, whether the fact that the trading system?

First, Let see what is the definition of the system. According to the dictionary, the system is a means, methods or procedures are organized, regulated, can be applied repeatedly. Examples such as fast-food restaurant franchise business. All branches implement the same system, from the menu, spices, cooking methods, even to the interior of the room. Because profitable, the system is consistently repeated in all its branches.

In the context of trading, trading system is a way or an organized trading rules, applied regularly and repeatedly. Some traders refer to this trading system as a trading plan. The sense is the same.

If you have 100 million to open a restaurant business, what do you do first? Most likely you will do some research. For example, where the location, what food that will served, how much it costs and so forth. Then create a new plan or a business plan. Well, if you want to trade shares of 100 million, are you going to do the same thing? Supposedly, YES! Trading should be treated equally. Otherwise, it is tantamount to gambling. Unfortunately not all traders have a trading system or a trading plan. Their home buying or selling based only feeling or recommendation. Furthermore, predictably, they were not among the 5% of traders who succeed. By not having a plan, you are planning to fail.

You called a success as a trader if you can increase your capital balance. The balance of the increase derived from trading profits. The more trading profit coffers means you grew older. Thus, the key to success in trading is trading repeat that provide benefits. In other words, you must have a trading system that aims to repeat the successful trading.

If you do not have a trading system, usually a big profit when you are, then at other times a big loss, to spend money in your trading account. There is no consistency in your trading.

If your trading like the picture above, how can you increase your balance? At least you will break even, if you're lucky.

Maybe you could say that does not require trading system, because you know someone traders who do not have a system, but can continue to profit. My answer is probably not that person does not have a trading system. He also has a trading system, even though he does not realize it. Trading system needs to be interpreted broadly. Not just a matter of indicators, analysis and other technical matters. Traders are unknowingly doing the same thing constantly, which allowed him to record profit consistently in the long term. Without realizing it, the system naturally has fused with her​​.

I once had an acquaintance unique stock trader. He did not use technical analysis. Also did not understand the fundamental analysis. He said that his brain has rusted for things like that (although I think actually he's not stupid). Every day he comes to the stock gallery. But he was not trading. Rarely turned to the monitor. His work just to chat, read a newspaper and drinking a cup of coffee. Then how he trades? He only started trading at the sight of other friends of stress or panic. So when others panic selling, he panic buying. I think, "crazy!". But he always do that. And he quite often makes a profit from the market rebound. In the world of trading, the trader as he is referred to as a contrarian. If the market turns down again, he sold shares directly. That he is trading at any time. Unconsciously, he had a trading system. Naturally he had a rule when buying stocks and when to sell.

Consider it, a trader who has always been different from the system of traders who do not have a system. Traders who have system always CONFIDENCE. He knows when to act and what to do in any situation. Back to the earlier acquaintance. If he recommended certain stocks that are rising fast, he simply replied, "What do I care !!!?". His friends think, given the money but instead rejected. Not that she did not want to profit, he just was not comfortable because it violates his own habit. Contrary to the current system makes benefit.

People who do not have their own systems generally always acted carelessly, quickly confused and panic, or just looking for information which direction the market to anyone, that just makes him more confused. Just look at the people who like fast frantic trading on the mailing list or forum, either stocks or forex. Certainly the person does not have a system. Usually they just follow, regardless of the risks.

Trading systems like a weapons that help you face the war in the financial markets. You certainly do not went to battle with only bare hands? So, before you make a trade, you should have a trading system.

Lose From Trading? Dont Worry, There Are a Lot of Friends.

From 1897 to 1900, 200,000 people went to the Klondike and only 30,000 people who make it. No more than 400 people who found gold and only a few who managed to save the gold. This is true also in the world of trading.

If you are often feel loss in trading, frequently deposits but rarely withdraw, even if the purchase price down, if the selling price went up, then you actually have a lot of friends. Although online trading now is more ease, access to information about the business and economic abundant, materials to learn trading is everywhere, from books and the internet, but still there are more traders lose than gain. According to the data, only about 5% of traders who consistently make a profit, the other a loss or at most just to break even.

Maybe you feel this data is redundant. But try to check this data. There is data that supports authentic. Here are the data of FXCM, an online forex broker based in New York. The graph below shows the position and profit or loss per day from traders who trade the EUR / USD from 2005-2008. From these data clearly seen trader losses (up to -180 pips) more than the trader profits (up 130 pips). From the graph it is clear that more traders lose than gain. Although this is only from one broker, sebagaai a statistical data, this data can be considered representative of the general condition of the trader.

Maybe you feel that the data is 95% of traders lose and only 5% of the profit consistently too excessive. But, generally speaking, in all areas there is always more that fail than succeed. In the business world too. Approximately 90% of the newly launched business will be closed later.

Now, forget the percentage figures. What is more important is that you certainly do not want to be part of the 95%. I'm sure you do not want to be a trader loses money. So what exactly can make the most of the small traders managed to record a profit? The answer is a TRADING SYSTEM.

Is this what you experienced?

When first trade, I just pure guess price direction. Prices will soon go up or prices will soon go down. And incidentally the price is moving in the direction that I wanted. Huge profits in my hands. I thought, "It's easy! It could get rich quick".

The next trading is always successful. Balance increased dramatically and my emotional self-control immediately in line with successful trading. I think, it's very easy! Before I knew it, I had to trade with a full risk, the greater the wear margin. A few days later, I suffered huge losses. You read that right. I suffered immense losses.

After realizing my folly, I finally learned trades, looking for ways to make a profit. I started to find out about and learn some technical analysis indicators. I started trading again with a sense of aplomb. The next story I am starting a profit, even managed to gain hundreds of per cent of the capital invested. But a few moments later, luck did not favor me started. Of profit, finally losing again. This time I was rather clever, money in my account still remains pretty good.

I guess that means I still have not advanced trading, so there is often a loss rather than a profit. Finally I tried several ways of trading, ranging from simple to complex. Including try indicator with an unfamiliar name. Several times sophisticated indicators is successful, but eventually lose again. Finally I decided to get rid of these indicators and trying to find new ways of trading, the better.

The desire to get rich quickly from trading is gone from my head. Before I had time to think it would be easy to make money from trading, but in fact the opposite. 

What I experienced, may be experienced by many other novice traders. I thought, "there must be a way to make money consistently from trading. Although it is not easy, there is a way. What should I do next?".

Hopefully this blog can be a witness and you are the one who knows what I do next.