I have been told that a maximum of 8% can be earned per month with low risk. I am earning 17% per month with low risk.
Very many congratulations! 
You’re doing better than 99.9% of professional fund managers.
Probably better than 99.99% of them, actually.
At 17% per month, if you started with only $10,000 and compounded only twice a month, after 3 years you’d have over $3,500,000.
What proportion of beginning traders do you think, realistically manage that?
Sounds like you already know not to let what you’ve been told limit your aspirations or your results? Just as well.
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Honestly, there’s no fixed “maximum” percentage of profit you can make per month in Forex—it all depends on experience, strategy, risk management, and emotional control. But if I had to give a realistic range, consistent traders typically make anywhere from 2% to 10% per month. Anything beyond that usually involves higher risk, which isn’t sustainable in the long run.
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Wow, amazing, how long have you been doing that for?
Low risk, would love to know the strategy.
Good luck!
Bro i almost got 39% return in a single day 
it actually depends on your strategy, market condition, trading skills, how much risk yow want take etc
It varies significantly depending on factors like your risk tolerance, trading strategy, market conditions, and the amount of leverage you’re using. Some experienced traders might aim for around 5-10% per month, while more aggressive traders may target higher returns, especially in volatile markets. However, high profits often come with increased risk. Aiming for consistent, steady growth while managing risk carefully is generally a more sustainable approach than trying to achieve massive returns each month.
Calculating the potential percentage profit per month depends on your strategy - how well it is designed and how closely you follow its rules.
If you don’t have a strategy or you don’t follow its rules, then you may still make a profit but the maximum won’t be caclulable.
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How many profitable traders use anything that makes it remotely calculable? I’ve never seen a strategy that has any form of R:R and works. I’ve seen strategies where the risk is defined and the close is based on price action or time and here the reward is totally unknown, it happens when and where it happens.
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Nobody makes 10% per month on average. You can have a lucky month but on average it will be a lot less.
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That’s for certain.
It’s obvious, really: if you could do that, you could raise a few hundred thousand in trading capital very quickly and easily through prop firms or other funding, and after a year or two at 10% per month, compounding, you’d have more than money than Elon (“Mr President”) Musk!
I don’t see or hear of anyone doing that, though … 
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Forgive my curiosity, but what do you call “low risk”? And roughly how many trades per month are you doing, and for how many months, now?
(I’m guessing questions are ok, here, since you started a thread to discuss it? 
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I’ve seen a lot of income claims I don’t believe (haven’t we all?) but the most I’ve personally seen anyone make in a month, myself, was about 450%.
He also had 7 other accounts, all started at the same time with the same low amount of money, and he blew all the other accounts.
It’s how people win trading competitions, and any other stuff from which they want to claim great success for some often marketing-related reason. They hide all the losing accounts that accompanied the one really successful one, but a lot of people don’t notice that! 
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I managed this and similar things - very occasionally - when I was first starting out, didn’t understand risk-management at all, and was also pretty naïve about how the whole industry worked.
The mistake I made - along with plenty of other people - was imagining that I’d be able to do something like that reliably or regularly. It nearly became an expectation. That cost me quite a few small accounts and some time, before I got my feet back on the ground.
With hindsight it would probably have been much better for me if I’d never managed it in the first place: it would have steered me in a more helpful direction at an earlier stage, but some people just need to learn the harder, slower, more experiential way and I guess I was one of them. 
There are two possible outcomes to trying to repeat +17% per month reliably or regularly: one is the overwhelming, unprecedented mega-success - and it really would be! - and early retirement we all wish for you; the other is a lot of reloading of (hopefully small) accounts in a process that actually tends to be part of a completely normal and thoroughly beneficial learning curve. The good news is that that one’s also usually not such a bad thing. It was ok for me. Eventually.
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Very interesting thread. A lot of wisdom, up above!
Here’s the thing, Miguel: there are two radically, fundamentally different approaches and philosophies to trading, which are used consciously or unconsciously by two very different groups of people.
One is a group who naturally and instinctively look at the whole subject and all the aspects and components of it in terms of “What’s the maximum I can make”. This is the very big “profit maximization” group. The title of this thread describes this approach with very great accuracy.
The other is a far, far smaller group of people we might call the “risk management” group, who approach everything very differently indeed, and from the completely opposite perspective of managing risk first and foremost.
One of these groups of people is overwhelmingly more successful than the other.
In the long run.
And the long run’s all that matters, really, isn’t it?
Absolutely anyone and everyone who’s ever traded with any steady success for a year or more will tell you the same, and usually in pretty similar words, too.
Oh, I have, actually.
There are also some used professionally, on trading-floors, by hedgies, proprietary funds, and so on. Not all of those are HFT or software-driven (most, maybe, but not all!).
That’s much more common, of course.
I use a “hybrid” one, myself. I scalp the Dow index in multiple lots, all-but-one of which close really quickly with a tiny profit and the last lot (ideally, i.e. “very occasionally!”) runs a little further with a trailing stop. You could say that this doesn’t quite have a fixed R:R and that’s technically true, but it’s terribly rare for me to hit a runner. My point is that even the initial lots with their fixed SL and TP do constitute in themselves a “system that works”.
But I also have a former colleague who now scalps the S&P, manually, with a completely fixed-R method (no runners!) from which he makes a good and reliable living.
So these things are possible.
Rare, perhaps, and maybe mostly high-win-rate scalping? (Not sure about that part!).
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There’s no fixed maximum percentage of profit you can make per month in Forex trading, as it depends on several factors like your trading strategy, risk management, market conditions, and capital. Experienced traders might aim for consistent returns of 1-5% per month, while some aggressive strategies could yield 10-20% or more in a good month. However, higher potential profits come with higher risks, and losses can also be significant. Professional traders often prioritize consistency over chasing unrealistic gains.
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gambler strategy
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In Forex, there’s no fixed percentage of profit. Consistent traders generally aim for 2-5% per month. Higher returns like 10-20% are possible with higher risk but aren’t sustainable long-term. The key is focusing on steady growth and strong risk management.
Wow, 17% per month sounds impressive! I would love to hear more about your strategy. How do you manage your risk, pick your trades and how do you identify key areas for entry and exit?
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Some say 8% max per month with low risk, others claim 17%+ is doable. I even saw someone hit 450% in a month, but they blew other accounts too.
High gains=high risk. If 10%+ was easy, we’d all be rich. 
What’s a realistic target for you?
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It depends on person to person. I gave myself a target of 105 and made the same on the demo account, which felt great as a beginner, though it was disappointing for me because it wasn’t real funds. But all in all, I am happy.
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