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The risks of options is quite a real phenomenon. The opportunity to receive a negative trade exists in any kind of exchange trading including the binary options trading.
You definitely can’t eliminate the risks completely from your work. However, you can minimize the opportunity to loose a rate by controlling the trading as much as possible.
The risk of the options trading depends on several factors. These are contract type, its liquidity, the character of the situation on the market.
Let’s say, news publication can work to your advantage and help you to make a trade, but also can, opposite, lead to the loss of deposit, if you weren’t ready to this event.
That’s why it’s so important in trading to rely not on emotions, but on logic and technical analysis of the chart.
Almost every training course for beginners contains information on risk management to a certain degree. The elementary ways to protect your funds will help you not only to save, but also multiply deposit.
Can it be possible to manage the risks of options?
It’s not so much the technical aspect of trade-making process plays the important role in managing the risks of options trading as the psychology of trader. Unfortunately, no matter how much is said about the need to study psychology of trading, not many traders listen to this advice.
Thus, there are uncontrollable emotions, tilt, reckless rates and, as a result, the loss of deposit and a complete disappointment in trading. To avoid this, learn to approach trading with sober mind and cool head.
There are several methods to minimize the risks of options
- Choose the time for trading properly. You shouldn’t chase the number of trades because reflection and a sober assessment of two hundred trades per day are just unreal. Don’t trade when you want, and choose the most appropriate time for that.
- Decide on the strategy. Changing trade strategy every five minutes, you can’t achieve the desired results. Every strategy has its percentage of profitability that you can assess only after working thoroughly with methods of trading.
- Define the rate in advance. The calculation of minimum rate, comfortable for your trading is simple: of the total amount of deposit for one rate it’s better to allocate no more than 2-5% of funds.
- Define the rate of the deposit. You shouldn’t give the trading the last of your money. The amount should be adequate, so that if you lost it, you wouldn’t lost your head.
Indeed, every trader defines himself his rules of trading with minimal risks. It’s more difficult for someone to control oneself, but for someone else it’s more difficult to adjust to the chosen strategy. You will able to formulate your own rules, when you gain some work experience with options.
