“Once you get your trading plan completed however, and you have a
successful track record of six months of solid trading results, lock
that plan up and never share it with anyone. Use it to build an
incredible life for you and your family. Hold on to the edge you have
worked so hard to attain. Be happy to share your knowledge but that does
not have to mean giving away your strategy and edge.” – Sam Seiden
There are certain other ways through which you can make money from the
markets without your own capital, and that’s what this article reveals.
Many people are eager to commit real money to trading; which is not a
bad thing. However, the most crucial thing is correct trading knowledge.
When you’ve correct trading knowledge, capital will come looking for
you, which means that your knowledge makes you rich. If you’ve capital
and you don’t have the right knowledge, you’ll soon be done away with
your capital.
When you’ve the right knowledge and no capital, these are what you can do to become rich gradually as a trader:
You can work as a signals provider: If you’ve a good trading idea or
strategy, you may want to become a trading signals provider at one of
relevant websites like Zulutrade. Registration and services are free,
and you can trade Forex, CFD and Binary Options. Once you use a positive
expectancy system with sensible risk control tools, you’ll begin to
gain live followers. You then get paid a percentage of the trading
volume generated by trades that get opened as people copy your trades
automatically.
You can get investors through proven demo track records: This is
possible on relevant websites like Myfxbook.com. You can open a demo
account with a good MT4 broker and register the account on Myfxbook.
Your trades are recorded and analyzed automatically. After many months
or a few years of positive track records (clean survival), you might
convince an investor (or investors) to commit some capital to you. You
then get some percentage of profits you make on that capital. I know
someone who got employed as a trader in a reputable bank – only because
he’d a demo account that showed good results of a few years.
You can get money by joining demo trading competitions: Luckily, many
brokers organize forex trading competitions with various awards methods.
Some brokers would give you a cash prize for being one of the top
winners and a contract to manage money for them. Some brokers would give
you a free deposit as one of the winners. You can’t withdraw the
deposit, but you can withdraw the profits made on it. Some brokers can
allow you to withdraw the money from your MT4 account once certain
conditions have been met; like trading with some desired volume.
Recently, Tallinex.com organized a demo trading competition, in which 15
winners were given generous cash prizes, which could be withdrawn
immediately or traded as each winner liked.
You can make money as an IB: I wouldn’t expatiate on this. Please ask
your broker who an IB is and what the rewards for a successful IB are.
When you get some money, you can provide automated trading signals with
real money on some relevant websites like Collective2. People who find
your trades useful would gladly pay monthly fees for the use your
strategy.
There are other ways to make money from trading related activities,
without having your own capital. Can you think of some more of them?
When you’ve a proven strategy, the best thing is to trade it with real
money. Some people don’t have money to open a decent trading account and
they got talent as traders. Once they can prove their expertise in a
simulation mode, they might get seed money to start their own trading
business.
I know that some negative views people have about trading are simply not true.
Conclusion: Visionaries can’t be intimidated by the markets…. Schools
don’t make successful people; learning makes successful people… You’ve
to be different before you can make a difference.
I wish you a profitable trading future.
This article is ended by the quote below:
“But truth is… We all have losing trades..., as we all have winning
trades. We all have good days..., and bad. We all.., are only as good -
as how we managed the last trade - regardless of that trade's outcome.
Trading is not about the amount - it only about the process...,
routine..., making a plan for each trade..., then trading that plan to
fruition. It’s about discipline...., patience..., repetitiveness...,
with no opinion..., and one's ego set aside low..., it about
self-management in a totally uncertain environment” – Redneck (Source:
Elitetrader.com)