Top Ten Steps To Find A Good Forex Money Manager PDF Print E-mail
Written by Andy Curtis   
Thursday, 19 August 2010 22:11
More and more people are turning to the currency market to get better returns on their investment. Consequently, more managed account services have sprung up, offering their services to retail clients. This provides investors with a number of benefits.. This item looks at why this has been the situation, and looks at why managed forex accounts are the 'next big thing'.
by AndyCurtis


More and more people are turning to the currency market to get better returns on their investment. As a result, there is a growing market for high performing forex money managers who trade through managed forex accounts. This gives a retail investors a lot of possibilities to invest in the forex market, where before they just didn't exist.. This piece of writing explores why this has been the situation, and investigates why managed forex accounts can be such a good investment.

So why hire a forex money manager to look after your funds? In the first instance, it is the belief that they will make you money. So is this assumption true?

Well, in the vast majority of cases, it is true that a forex money manager can get better returns in trading forex than most ordinary investors. Most people have lost their whole account within 2 month. After this period, they either go back to investing in stocks and other asset classes, or look to find a professional to manage their money in the forex market. Finding a respectable and high performing forex manager can sometimes be hard, but it well worth the search.

So what are the advantages of investing in a managed forex account, and how, in practice, can a forex money manager help to assist an investor get superior returns? Firstly, you get the ability to access the complex world of currency trading with a relatively small outlay. Most hedge funds require investors to invest up to a minimum of a million dollars. However, with the majority of managed forex accounts, retail investors can access the potential high returns of the currency market with as little as $10,000.

A key benefit of managed forex accounts is that the investor retains full control over his investment, and the opportunity for fraud is virtually eliminated. The key to this, is that you open an account with the relevant currency brokerage, and at no point do you need to send money across to the fund manager. This means that the manager will have no access to your money.

Of course, the manager will get access to trade your funds. This is set out in a power of attorney which you are required to execute, and return to the broker. What this says, in effect, is that you have granted permission to the manager to take trades on your account, and to give him full trading privileges. It does not, however, give him any other rights over you account, such as to make transfers or withdrawals of funds.

This element of security gives great comfort to the great majority of investors. Over the last couple of years, there have been a lot of cases of hedge funds defrauding their investors of all their money. Perhaps the biggest case reported in the press was that of Bernie Madoff.

Thus to conclude, it can be seen that getting a forex money manager to manage your forex account has a distinct number of advantages over a traditional form of investment. In this uncertain world, where the housing market is in free fall, and stock markets are collapsing, the ability of a retail investor to access the forex market through a well managed forex account is of great benefit.

DISCLAIMER: This article is provided as information only and is not to be taken as financial advice.