If trading were easy, everyone would do it — and everyone would succeed. Yet, we see lots of disenfranchised traders that try to blame everything but themselves for their inability to stay in the black and not so many successful investors. Why is it like this?
The problem is, on the market one can win only when somebody else loses. Following this logic, it may seem that 50% of traders are winning most of the time, while the other half is losing. In reality, however, the ratio of successful traders to their unsuccessful counterparts is not even close to 1:1. It is a well-known fact that most traders who have ever entered the financial market will lose their money and quit for good.
If you are not one of them and have decided to make it through, you might want to learn how to avoid these costly mistakes.
Trying to beat the market
The market is huge. You — as a retail trader — not so much. They say, ‘do not go against the market’ and ‘go with the trend’ for a reason. The thing is, big international investors can afford the luxury of going against the trend with the intention of affecting the asset price. What is true for them doesn’t have to be true for everyone. As a retail investor you have no power over the price and can only work with the market on its terms. Learn the market and adapt to it, don’t try to change the way it behaves.

Not admitting you are wrong
There is much more human nature in trading than generally accepted. People often see the market as a soulless machine with a consciousness of its own, while in reality it is a collection of traders that make informed decisions, thus influencing the overall outcome. Trading is a craft (as just it is science and art). You have, therefore, to constantly improve, work over your mistakes, admit it when you are wrong and move forward with a newly acquired knowledge and skills.
Being the smart one
Some traders believe they are just too good to fall for the common mistakes, observed on the markets. And thus, make arguably the worst mistake out there. Being able to receive constructive criticism and to study other people’s strategies can take you a long way. Stay true to yourself and stay humble. Don’t be that guy who knows everything yet keeps losing money.

Picking tops and bottoms
While it is without a doubt a good idea to buy low and sell high, it is not always as easy to implement in practice. The tricky part is to pinpoint the exact moment when the trend is most likely to reverse (more on that here). Most people who wrongfully apply this strategy buy the so-called ‘falling knife’ — a stock that is destined to keep losing. Eventually, they will buy low but sell even lower, watching their account slowly melt away.
Turning to emotions
There is nothing wrong with being emotional in ordinary life. When it comes to trading, however, emotions are plain bad. Emotions, both positive (from a win) and negative (from a loss) will obscure your trading vision and decrease the probability of making sound decisions. When feeling emotional it is best to take a break and calm down. Otherwise you will face the risk of making an even greater mistake.
As you can see, most tips have to do with the way we, as human beings, think and operate when presented with a risk of loss and a probability of remuneration. Being able to tame your emotions, stay a cold-blooded speculator is the way to go.
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Sory my English is a beginning so I whant this lesson in arabic language I I need to send me lessons about usses of platforms in Arabic thank you and I will complete the profile issues
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We do not have tutorials videos in Arabic at the moment, however, we will try our best to help you at support@iqoption.com. Also, we are working on Arabic language and soon we will try to add it for videos and the platform itself.
I only lost in iq option I have never won here no any indicator helps us
Don’t trade in options. Trade with with value in forex and you will win one day.
Small value
Thank you for your feedback. It’s always nice not to put all of the funds in one trade.
I feel I have some good strategies but my emotions is my downfall
You’re right, psychological factor affects users a lot.
We’re hoping you’ll overcome your emotions and enjoy your trading further on.
Yes i also face the same problem
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This is my first read for the day and seems very powerful. I have been thinking of starting to do forex trading and get fx leaders to help me since I am just new. Your post gave me that YES I can do this and nobody is stopping me vibe.
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We wish you lovely trading experience with IQ Option and a great day! 🙂
thank you so much guys
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thank you so much guy’s
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Loss
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We are sorry to hear about your loss, can you please tell us if you used any strategy or indicators?
Did you use the practice account?
I had lost terribly on this platform,but with the help of articles like this, I bouncing back.
Thanks.
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Lose for many trailed and tested my option does not fit to the IQ option and it makes me to understand that no one was entering the market in a week or 6 months have strategy so more time to read and have my analysis base on what all media talk about market
Hey Simon, we are unsure if we understood your message, do you mean that we should work on the strategy, if yes, then it is true and we should always do the fundamental analysis as well, as it is very important.
am also losing in option but i keep looking for strategy to recover some loss.
but what want from you now is help,
pls help me with the perfect setting of FRACTAL i think it can help me in my option trading
Thanks for reaching out to us! Could you contact us at support@iqoption.com so we can do our best to help you understand the app better? We are looking forward to your email! 🙂
From this article, it appears and what i understood plus as it was expressly stated that iq options trading platform was set up for at least 85% of traders to lose money while the developer makes money every second that a person downlads or use this app, then what advantage is there fir using it as traders whose intention is to make profit from trading investment? … i stand the chance to be corrected if im wrong cos i too lose money on here although im very much aware that trafing forex is high risk but not to d point of a platform such as fis created for developers of such to make huge profit at d expense of it consumers trading on such platform
And losing
Good day, dear Lanre!
Sadly enough there has been a lot of fraudulent activity and so-called brokers that aimed to lie to their client and use unhealthy practices.
This is why the whole field of trading does not seem trustworthy to people nowadays.
It is risky, indeed, very risky and we always tell it to our clients.
Nevertheless using technical indicators and various trading strategies may be really helpful. And of course, traders should know where to stop and never risk their whole investment.
That is the reason we always ask our clients to be fully conscious while investing their funds and do not promise easy money.
However, the business model of the Company is spread and commissions only.
We assure you that we always follow all of our Policies and are expecting the same in return. Should you have any other concerns, kindly get in touch with our support team directly at support@iqoption.com. Thank you.
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thank you very much for the tutorial, its very informative and educative
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thank you so much for this amazing post I do some mistake and face loss on my nycunitedlimo.com business.
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hi… I do agree with this common trading mistake made by a beginner traders like me.. even though i have lose because of my own mistake, I found this platform is a great platform which is provide many tools of indicator to help us to make a good prediction. Need to learn more and make a lot of practices to win the prediction. So i hope soon i will get back up and get successfully in this world of trading by using this IQOPTION platform. Thanks.
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We wish you best of luck on your trading journey and a great day!