Talking Points

• Trading Is Little Different Than Running A Business

• Business Success is Built on Employee Retention and Termination

• Trading Is a Game Built on Keeping Good Employees & Letting Go Of Bad Ones Quick

“Think about it this way: If you had to launch your business in two weeks, what would you cut out?”

― Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson, ReWork

When entering into a work force and meeting different companies you’ll often hear the phrase, “our biggest asset is our employees”. This is often warming to the fearful entrant into the workplace, however there is a flipside to this truth and that is that the wrong employee or worse, group of employees, can easily bring down a business. Understanding this simple fact can have a powerful and beneficial impact on your trading.

Trading Is Little Different Than Running A Business

Throughout this article it may be helpful to think of your trading account as your own enterprise with you being the CEO behind a beautiful mahogany desk. As the CEO of your company it’s your job to make sure that every employee (i.e. open trade) on your payroll is pushing your business forward and that you’re not holding on to any employees that are holding you back.

Why think this way?

Trading is simple but that does not mean it’s easy. One way or another, your long term success as a trader will depend on your ability to fight the fight for trading survival by quickly cutting trades that are doing more harm than good and keeping trades open that are technically acting right within your analysis.

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Business Success is built on Employee Retention and Termination

As the CEO of your own trading firm, you need to be able to cut the fat that is holding you back from reaching your goals. While companies know that it is expensive to hire, train, analyze and fire bad employees, they know that is a much cheaper alternative than holding onto said employee and hoping she or he is due for a bounce of good performance. Sadly, this is similar to what many traders do, where they hire a bad employee (trade) and once proven ineffective, they’d rather hold on hoping for a turnaround as opposed to cut the waste and look for another employee that can deliver the results they originally sought.

Learn Forex: A Long EURUSD Employee May Be Ready For a Pink Slip

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As a forex trader, you’ve probably learned or are still learning that markets are emotional and trading should be logical. From a logical point of view, if trading under the paradigm that this article recommends, then a long EURUSD position is no longer making business sense as EURUSD continues to break levels of support on a move lower. This is a simple illustration with a current chart to show you that EURUSD long is likely not helping further your businesses goal of long-term profitability.