If You Only Have $1,000 to Trade Forex, Watch This First Podcast: Find out more about Blueberry Markets – Click Here Find out more about my Online Video Forex Course Book a Call with Andrew or one of his team now Click Here to Attend my Free Masterclass #649: If You Only Have $1,000 to Trade Forex, Watch This First In this video: 00:24 – Trading on holiday in Brisbane. 00:48 – Are you firstly profitable on your demo account? 01:30 – Position sizing on $1k account. 02:10 – Downsides to trading a $1k account. 03:20 – Trade the account properly. 03:48 – Forget how much money you are making. 04:22 – Focus on the percentage gain you make. I’m going to give you some tips about the best way to trade your account if it’s, say, like a $500 or a $1,000 live account. Let’s talk about that and more right now. Hey there, Traders! Andrew, The Forex Trading Coach for video and podcast number 649. Trading on holiday in Brisbane. I’m on holiday here in Brisbane with my wife. Been here for the last 10 days, having a great time around the area, and just received an email just a few minutes ago from someone that made a perfect video and podcast topic. They asked me, they said, “Look, I’ve got a $1,000 live account. How can I trade it? What are the best things to do and what should I be looking out for, you know, as a new trader with that size account?” Are you firstly profitable on your demo account? So to me, the important things are that you make sure that, 1st of all, before you go live, that you are profitable on your demo account. When you open a demo account, make sure you open that demo account with a similar size account than you would with your live account. So in other words, if this person is starting with $1,000 live, then start with a $1,000 demo. Don’t start with, say, like a $100,000 demo and then go to $1,000 live because it’s just not going to be the same. And the issue that I see with a number of brokers, you know, they sort of default to like a $100,000 or $500,000 demo account. And it’s just not real when you go live. So that’s the 1st point. Make sure that you’re profitable. Position sizing on $1k account. When you go live, if you do start with something like $1,000, you’re going to be really struggling when it comes to accurate position sizing. So you’re probably, on most trades, going to end up just taking 0.01 lots. There’s not a lot of choice that you have on that. Like, if you’re still trying to keep that low risk and high reward-to-risk out of your trading, but you are probably going to struggle a little bit more when it comes to the real accurate position sizing. So I’d suggest that you go 0.01 on pretty much everything, and if your money management allows you to go up higher than that, then do so. But, you know, you’re probably not going to get it very often. Downsides to trading a $1k account. And the issue that I see when someone has $1,000 now, for some people, $1,000 is a lot of money. For other people, $1,000 is basically play money. The downside for those where it’s play money is that they go, “Oh look, it’s just $1,000. I don’t really care if I lose it. I’m just going to, you know, just play around with it basically.” And the issue there is that they don’t treat their trading properly. The other scenario, when the $1,000 is a lot, is that I look at it sometimes and think, well, if it’s a huge amount of money for you, should you really be trading that $1,000? Would you potentially be better off understanding your strategy still, and then maybe putting some money into maybe a prop firm where you can prove to them that you can trade properly? Because, of course, you could do that with maybe, you know, $50, $100, a couple hundred dollars, depending on the size of the prop firm account that you’re going into. But you might be better off rather than trading that $1,000 of your own money and trading that prop firm’s funds. But of course, once you know what you’re doing. Trade the account properly. So whichever way that you go, the important thing is that you trade it properly and you treat it like it was a lot more money. And so the key there is, like I said, low risk, low lot sizing, trading it properly. If your strategy says you close before the weekend, make sure you do it. Don’t just go, “I don’t really care if it stays open over the weekend,” you know. And if that’s not your strategy, make sure that you treat it properly. Forget how much money you are making. The other important thing to make sure that you do well on that $1,000 account is don’t worry about how much money you’re making. A lot of people say to me, like, “How can I make a living off trading with a $1,000 account?” And the answer simply is you can’t. But it doesn’t really matter. The point of a small account is to get you into the mindset and the mentality of trading live because it affects your head and your heart when you ...
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