The importance of applying Money Management into your trading.

Money management is like sex: Everyone does it, one way or another, but not many like to talk about it and some do it better than others.

Money management is the process of analyzing trades for risk and potential profits, determining how much risk, if any, is acceptable and managing a trade position (if taken) to control risk and maximize profitability.

There is one thing more important than any method of trading anyone could teach you. Money management and risk control are critical to successful trading. It is not complicated, but there are some very specific rules that you should follow.

Although we can learn from professional money managers, as private traders, we should not fully emulate their approach to the markets. Here’s how individual trader and money manager goals differ and how the differences affect a key component: money management.