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The 3 main factors that restrict retail trader’s from making

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**There's loads of inexperienced answers on the internet I’ve read a lot on the internet about why traders lose money and are not successful. They range from using the wrong brokers, wrong indicators, trading wrong currency pairs, trading the wrong time frames, screwed up psychology, etcetera .… the list appears to be endless. But after 28 years in the market, 8 of which have been working with retail traders, I can isolate it to 3 major reasons why they aren’t successful & they stick out like a sore thumb. I could apply these 3 reasons to every trader that I’ve ever come across and it will explain to them why they weren’t successful. I urge you to think about these 3 things before you start throwing your hard earned cash into the market. If you can tick these off your list then your chance of success will increase by roughly 1000%. The 3 reasons I believe why traders aren’t successful are: 1. They have no ‘Capital Management’ structure/plan. 2. They have no ‘real’ understanding of the forex market. 3. They don’t have the right tools to trade. I built Traders4Traders with the sole purpose of proving retail traders ‘first-hand’ experienced knowledge of the markets and capital management. ​Everyone that comes through the courses is amazed at the structure of the market and our analysis. But most of all it’s the capital management where they have the light bulb moment.

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