Speculative Forex trading is inherently risky; there is real and present danger that you could lose money on any given trade you enter into, so practicing proper Forex money management is essential to long-term trading success. Many traders do not do this correctly however; they either put too small of a stop loss on the trade because they want to increase the number of lots they are trading out of greed, or they put a really large stop loss on the trade and do not adjust down their position size to maintain their risk; effectively, they dangerously increase their risk by doing either of these.