Starting with a little investment is very important. Always take some money on a backup when you are at initial stage of trading because their is a huge possibility of losing the money. This backup will help you to recover your money by making some right moves.
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Right, and take it as the learning phase not the earning and donât get disappointed when you lose keep practicing and keep learning.
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How much leverage do you have?
I started a demo account this week too.
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Thread of the year, seriously. Great advice, $100, .01 a pip, you can learn this way, and not destroy yourself in the process. Control your emotions, learn how to take a loss and how to learn from it. Learn how to take a positive trade, and not think you are the master of all trading. Really good stuff folks.
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Liber8 _bob
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If one can manage the mini account with his trading skills then he can also manage the little high amount.
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Hi i have been trading live with 100$ and 0.01 lots for the past 8 months, regularly taking profits of 5 - 10$ per trade and not blowing my account so far 
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with a $100 account always use 0.01 lot size and trade major pairs only no than 3 position at a time to be safe on the market
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Is better use average leverage. For an example, investors who have a $1,000 Forex market account can trade $100,000 worth of currency with a margin of 1 percent, with a 100:1 leverage. So in your case 0.01 is better.
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I think the ideal way to trade a $100 micro account - is just using 0.01 lots size and your 2% is determined by the number of pips you intend to use for stop loss, probably your target should be @ ratio 1:2. Also you should be more concerned about building the account for @ quarter. Thanks.
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Itâs useless to calculate this if your system is not consistently profitable. Forget about the money, trade your system well. Even starting from 0.01 you can do well if you follow your plan properly. Tons of beginners have it the wrong way.
SL and TP MUST be following the system, the market structure and what âsheâ allow you to take. not what âYOUâ want to make every day like 70 pips a day or such. Itâs not your call. itâs âherâ call. 
Iâve known few people who never deposit money and they grow their account to few five digits number.
Guess what? they use the free bonus money from their shitty no-deposit bonus brokers, make some money, withdraw, depo to better Aussie brokers, leverage 500:1, then make it big there.
so is $100 possible? VERY Possible.
whatâs the catch? YOU have to acquire the skill for it
what if I donât have the skill? Even you deposit 1 million and you will blow it anyway.
There is no âluckyâ trader that will survive long in the market. Only âhighly skilledâ with âgood mentalityâ traders will survive, even with bonus money they can make a living out of it.
just my two cents. Please focus on improving your skills, and the money flow in automatically when you execute your plan properly. if your skill is there at the proper level, any leverage or any risk is good because youâll always have positive expectancy.
use tool like Easy Order (MT4) to set your risk at about 1-2% and you can forget about counting those and focus on trading the chart.
Cheers!
Gamblr
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It is my firm believe that the level of succes in forex doesnât depends upon the amount of money you invest. It depends upon how you tackle the obstacles of the market. So, i will advise young traders to invest in forex with little proportions of money and then see how things go.
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I started real trading with $100 about early this year. And to be frank you need a lot of patience of everything.
You also need a reliable system which offer you minimal losses every time you fail to read the market. Even with a 0.01 lot position you can easily wipe out half of your account without proper stops.
Then again donât expect to make like 5-6 digits gains in short while from that $100. You need to understand clearly that you are trying to catch and subdue a T-Rex using a small cast net made from the same threads that was used to make the t-shirt you are wearing now.
My intention starting with small account is purely to build, improvise and perfect my system. Then learn how to survive. If i can pull it off then i know i am one step further to becoming a consistently profitable trader.
Iâm doing somewhat okay right now, have like 2-3 $20+ withdrawals and the account never really go below $50 or above $150 but then again that is not the real aim for this account.
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Whatâs you profit and how long have you been trading
Currently, so many brokers offer high leverage, like as 1;500 or higher, if we start with small capital ;like as 100$ hence if choosing high leverage it will increase more opportunity to open trades, we can start with smallest lot size, because high leverage only need smallest margin requirement to open one, lot size, and we can split order to small lot size with goal to maximize profit
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At initial level you canât afford a huge loss. As a beginner you donât have full knowledge and experience about that platform. There is a huge possibility that you suffer from a loss. You should have to start with a low investments after getting some knowledge, experience, skills and technique you might be able to do a bigger trade.
I believe that $100 is more than enough. It doesnât matter how much money you start your trading with. You need to make full use of your knowledge and experience while staying in the market. You need to realize that you can also lose your $100 in a single trading session. So, be careful.
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basically the pips matter more than the amount of money you make on the trade
Whatever your leverage do not go higher than .1 for a $100 account and even then try to go lower just to be safe. No use trying to get rich quick and blow your account. I started with a $1000 and for months I keep losing and gaining the same $500-600 but at least I havenât blown it and I usually go with .05 and .1 lots when I could easily go to $1 but just to be safe Iâm keeping small lots until Iâm more confident.
Yes, these amount capital can be used for startup trading capital, will low risk if we choose a micro account, or in other hand using cent account, with 10$ is more than enough and can be used for long-term strategy, learn trading with low risk start from smallest lot size, it will alive longer time
$100 is not enough no whatâs the point your not going to make anything with it.! For practice use a demo or for real use $1000 minimum. Anyone putting all the effort into learning how to trade the correct way isnât going to use $10 or $100. I wouldnât go to casino to play poker with $10 Iâd be out first round unless i was playing for pennies then whatâs the point in wasting my time.?
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