Learn Commodity Trading Basics of Trade Strategies
For traders wanting to use trading strategies to trade the commodity market there are a few other basics that a trader should know that will help to make the trading strategy being used become more successful.
After a trader has learned about technical analysis of indicators & the analysis of commodity charts, a trader will need to come up with a strategy. Trading strategy that a beginner trader uses can be based on the following most oftenly used trading strategies in Commodities.
Moving Average Strategy |
Moving Average Strategy MACD Commodity Trading Strategies |
MACD Strategy RSI Strategy |
RSI Strategy Bollinger Bands Strategy |
Bollinger Bands Strategy Stochastic Oscillator Commodities Trading Strategies |
Stochastic Oscillator Strategy |
A trader can learn about basics of how to create a trading strategy by learning from the above examples trading strategies.
Once a trader has come up with their commodity strategy, they should also include the following so as to make their commodity strategy more successful.
1.Commodities Trading Money Management Rules
2.Commodity Trading Psychology
Commodity Trading Money Management Rules
Commodity money management guidelines should be part of your trading strategy - these rules will help you as a trader to manage risk. This means that you will use two rules of commodity money management - these are risk reward ratio and drawdown reducing method when placing your trades to determine the lot size that you will put in the commodities market. The most popular commodity money management rule use in commodity and the one that you should also add to your trading is the rule that says that a trader should never risk more than 2% of account equity on any one single commodities trade.
To learn about these 2 commodity money management guidelines traders should read the commodity money management guide that is on the learn commodity lessons section of this web site under the commodity key concepts lessons.
Commodities Trading Psychology Mindset
In order to become successful when trading the commodity market a trader has to learn about commodity psychology. The commodity psychology or mindset that is required to become successful in commodity is one that avoids the emotions of fear and greed while trading and is a mindset of total discipline that the trader will follow all their rules & their commodity strategy & only trade with signals which are generated by their strategy. With discipline a trader will not trade unless their commodity system gives a trading signal. A trader will have the mindset of only following their commodity system 100% all the time without second guessing the system. A disciplined trader will also not place trades in commodity market just because the commodity market has started to move upwards or downward, instead a trader will wait for a signal to trade to be generated by their commodities trading strategy.
In order to study more about commodity psychology and how to manage emotions while trading the commodity market a trader can read the commodity psychology tutorials from the learn commodity lessons section of this web site under the commodity key concepts tutorials.