Сhoose the signal-providers for ZuluTrade.Main tips.

Before we get into choosing a provider we need to have a good understanding of what a signal provider is. A signal provider is a trader or analyst that generates trades that in turn get placed on your account (through or ZuluTrade platform). You can have several signal providers trading your forex account or just one.

These guidelines will give us something to look for when choosing signal provider.Go to the

http://zulupro.zulutrade.com (dont login into account) and click More providers > Now You are on the statistics page of signal-providers(SP)

1. The first thing is weather the trader is a winner or a loser. This may seem obvious to nearly everyone, but I often see losing signal providers with 50-100 people trading their signals.Pay attention on Graph,Pips и Profit.
2. The next thing is how long they have been a winner. I recommend that you don’t trade any signal provider with less than a few months of results to show you. Any one can place a few good trades one week and get lucky.
3. Actual for small deposits.Look at the max draw down. This is the largest peak to trough draw down in equity that the trader has historically had. Some traders refuse to take a loss. This causes them to hold on to losing trades forever or until they turn to a winner. Turning a loser into a winner sounds great, but it will eat up a huge chunk of margin and may never turn around. If it doesn’t turn in your direction, you will have your entire account destroyed by a trader that could have taken a 30 pip loss but held on until it was an 800 pip loss.
4. The first three are easy to look at. They will be displayed right on the main screen of signal providers to choose from. Once you get a few signal providers you are thinking of using, its time to dive a bit deeper into their history.Сlick on any SP You choosed.This information you can get from your demo-accounts.

   • Look at their actual trades. Do they have a good win rate because they have opened a ton of trades all at the same time on the same currency pair? They may have 20 winners in a row. This looks great, but if you look a bit deeper you will see that its really only 1 winning trade places 20 times. Not as impressive is it?
   • Look at their draw down on individual trades. Do they let a trade go 300 pips against them and then close it out when it hits 5 pips of profit? This is a trader who lets their losses run out of control and cuts their winning trades short. It’s not a trader that you want in control of your money.
5. Choose a signal provider that suits you. Some traders may provide larger returns over time, but take bigger risks leading to bigger draw downs. This might be OK with you. If you are more conservative and cannot stomach large drops in equity you probably should choose a more conservative trader.