If you know that any trade may be a loser, you will always set a stop loss at a fair point. Newbies often tend to cling to a losing trade praying that it’ll turn around and come right. Sure, sometimes it will , but on the occasions when it does not, you can just go on losing more and more until your broker closes out your trade because there is very little left in your account.
Never let that happen! Irrespective of how strong the signals, always set a stop loss. The currency market is unpredictable at heart and no system is infallible. If you have a bad run straight after starting to trade live, it might be a sign that you were not ready to go live and you are making boo-boos, or your system wasn’t adequately tested in demo. Continue with caution, being bound to follow all of the rules of your system to the letter. Now and then, market behaviour may change in a way that implies a system stops working for some time. Even this is a chance for learning.



