Thinking about going into online trading of commodity futures? If so then I am sure you are aware there is a lot of risk involved. Let's have a look at the risk and how we can reduce it to a minimum.
The key thing to keep in mind is to risk only that money you can afford to lose. Online commodity futures trading is not about rushing to make the biggest gains possible and then retire. Keep your wits about you and do not get carried away with your successes. Do not either have the mentality of making up your losses as soon as possible. If you do then you end up gambling and this is not what commodity trading should be about.
You need to try as much as possible to detach your emotions from your trading. If you are emotional with your losses or with your gains you are in for a roller coaster of a ride.
Let us take an example to illustrate things, shall we. Let us presume that we invest in 100 ounces of gold which is selling at $1000 an ounce. The value of the gold would therefore be $100,000. The margin or good will deposit we have to make is $10,000 towards the $100,000 worth of gold - a total of around 10% is normal.
If you feel the time is correct to become bullish with gold and go in for 10 contracts at a cost of $100,000 and a value of $1 million and the price of gold were to move upwards to $1100 then all is looking good for us having doubled the value of our investment. But lets say that the value of gold were to dip to $900 an ounce then we are on wipe out unless we are capable of meeting the margin call by the broker to place more funds into our account.
With this sort of exposure in the market we could end up with serious losses. Its all very well to see things very positively and continue to believe in profit after profit. But at the same time we need to be realistic and know that there will be times when we hit a few losses. As such we need to have the funds available to deal with the losses.
When trading in online commodity futures there are many advantages over the traditional method due to the ability of up to date information of the market. But this leads perhaps to an inexperienced trader being given a false sense of security leading to over exposure of available funds. Keep things in moderation and the chances are good that slowly and surely your trading account will flow with profits.
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