Playing safe, it that's a thing :)

A strategy that I use, but only if you’re an experienced trader is to use the dollar amount of your average profitable day over a 30 day rolling period as your daily stop-loss.
Now that you’re into exotics try USDRUB too. It’s the most volatile pair moving at the average daily range of 4208 pips.
 
There’s also a 1% risk rule for day trading which directly focuses on risk management. This basically allows anyone to prevent losses of about 1% on a single trade.
No doubt the moves are great but my question is how do I trade exotics without burning my fingers.
 
I traded 10K on USD/MXN with the pip value $0.08$ per pip. The average volatility on a mini lot turned out to be approx $85.60. Never thought trading exotic would be so cool and much lesser than what I traded with majors.
 
Do calculate the risk and reward of the pair provided of the small pip value. A strong trading plan is what will help you succeed in trading exotics.
 
@Neal post determining the trade size and the pip value with either of my brokers (fxview, fxpro) I simply set my trade with a strong 1:2 risk reward ratio. I suppose there’s no difference here. None that I have seen.
 
As a day trader, you will have to pick a market wisely that you are interested in and can afford to trade. And not to forget, you will also have to set up the right equipment and software.
 
As a day trader, you will have to pick a market wisely that you are interested in and can afford to trade. And not to forget, you will also have to set up the right equipment and software.
To it, I would like to add that you must also choose a time of day to trade and should trade during that time only.
 
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