Every experienced trader will say the money management in trading is the important thing to keep your account alive and for my experience in trading I lose many accounts die first to bad money management and second for greed and getting more and more money, after all this bad experiences and when I keep money management in my eyes now I get my money adjusted with my capital and I required for every trader to give the most important attention for money management.
The rules for money management for me:
1. Make goals that could actually be achieved with your skill level
2. Always trade with a stop loss
3. Never over trade your account
4. Trust your indicators
5. Always protect profits
6. Trade with investment capital, not grocery money
and for you what is your experience with money management ?
Thanks to that very detailed points on money management specifically when it comes to trading mate. I'm not yet into trading but i strongly agree on those points because those are almost the same with money management in our daily lives. These are my tips /points on money management:
1. Set your goals or set a budget - this is to help you identify your needs and wants. Moreover, this is to help you limit the spending portion.
2. Save - secure a certain amount which willl be used later in in case of emergency
3. Invest -Make sure first that you do research before investing. Set aside a certain amount of money for investments. This is on top of the basic expenses and savings. There is always a risk in investment so it safe on your part to allocate an budget intended for the investments. Then if you already have a profit, secure or save your capital investment and let your profit roll in your investment.