George Soros Trading Secrets Every Trader Should KnowGeorge Soros. The man who broke the Bank of England. If you are a trader and you have never studied him, you are leaving a lot of valuable lessons on the table. Let us get into what made him one of the greatest traders of all time and what you can actually take from his approach and apply to your own trading.
Who Is George Soros?
In 1992, Soros made over a billion dollars by shorting the British pound. He is the co-founder of the Quantum Endowment Fund, a hedge fund managing over $27 billion in assets. He grew up as a young Jewish boy in Nazi-occupied Hungary, later moved to England to study at the London School of Economics, and eventually settled in the US in 1956 to work as a stockbroker. His journey from survival to becoming one of the world's greatest traders is worth paying attention to.
His Trading Philosophy
Soros is a short-term speculator at heart. He makes large, highly leveraged bets on currency rates, commodities, stocks, and other assets based on macroeconomic analysis. His approach is known as global macro strategy, essentially reading the bigger picture of the world economy and placing concentrated bets on where things are heading.
What Can We Learn From Him?
"It is not whether you are right or wrong that is important, but how much money you make when you are right and how much you lose when you are wrong."
This is probably the most important trading lesson there is. You do not need to win the majority of your trades to be profitable. What you need is proper risk to reward. If you are consistently making two times your risk on winning trades, you can lose more than half your trades and still come out ahead. Most traders never understand this and that is exactly why most traders fail.
"Most of the time we are punished if we go against the trend. Only at inflection points are we rewarded."
Soros was not recklessly contrarian. He followed trends but kept his eyes on major inflection points where trends could reverse. That is where the real opportunity sits. Trading with the trend is smart. But knowing when a trend is exhausted is what separates average traders from great ones.
"The whole thrust of my approach is that the course of events is indeterminate."
This aligns with what many trading greats have said. You can have the best analysis in the world and still be wrong. The market has too many variables for anyone to predict with certainty. What you can control is your entry, your stop loss, your target, and your own behavior. Everything else is out of your hands. The sooner you accept this, the better you will trade.
"Being so critical, I am often considered a contrarian. But I am very cautious about going against the herd. Most of the time I am a trend follower, but all the time I am aware that I am a member of the herd and I am on the lookout for inflection points."
Being contrarian does not mean blindly trading against the trend. It means thinking differently from the majority. It means waiting for pullbacks instead of chasing extended moves. It means being patient when everyone else is emotional. Soros understood this better than almost anyone.
"The market is a mathematical hypothesis. The best solutions to it are the elegant and the simple."
More indicators do not mean better trades. More complexity does not mean more accuracy. The traders who last are usually the ones who strip everything back and focus on what actually matters. Simple works. Always has.
"Risk taking is painful. Either you are willing to bear the pain yourself or you try to pass it on to others. There is nothing like danger to focus the mind."
Having money on the line forces focus. But there is a line between being focused and being obsessed. Risk should make you alert, not anxious. If every open trade keeps you up at night, that is a sign your position sizing is off, not a sign that you need to watch the charts more closely. If you cannot handle the discomfort of financial risk, trading will grind you down.
"If investing is entertaining, if you are having fun, you are probably not making any money. Good investing is boring."
If your trading feels exciting with big emotional highs and lows, you are probably gambling, not trading. Consistent profitable trading is routine. You follow your plan, you take your setups, you manage your risk, and you move on. The drama comes from poor discipline, not from the market itself. Learn to be comfortable with boring. Boring means you are doing it right.
"Short term volatility is greatest at turning points and diminishes as a trend becomes established."
When a trend is changing, weaker traders panic and exit. The traders who entered late with little conviction are the first to get shaken out. For a price action trader, this volatility is actually useful. It signals that something is shifting. Learning to read that is a genuine edge.
"I am only rich because I know when I am wrong. I have basically survived by recognizing my mistakes."
He did not hold losing positions out of ego. When he was wrong, he admitted it and got out. That alone sets him apart from most traders. The ability to take a loss without hesitation is not weakness. It is one of the most important skills in trading. You are going to be wrong a lot, especially early on. The question is whether you learn from it or keep paying for it.
Final Thought
Soros built his wealth by thinking clearly, managing risk honestly, and never letting emotion drive his decisions. He was contrarian but not reckless. He was confident but always aware he could be wrong. That combination is rare, and it is exactly what every serious trader should be working toward.
Disclaimer: This article is for educational purposes only and should not be considered financial advice. Always do your own analysis and use proper risk management.
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Education
September 16, 1992: George Soros "Broke the Bank of England"Analyzing George Soro's speculative trade on the pound.
Event:
Sept. 16, 1992 (Black Wednesday or the Sterling Crisis) was the day speculators forced the British government to pull the pound from the ERM. This trade was backed by large sponsors, such as the Geroge Soros and other groups of investors and hedge fund managers: Paul Tudor Jones and Bruce Kovner; placing bets against a central bank's capability to maintain the relatively "stable" value of its currency. According to some sources, Soros started to short the British pound late 1991 after volatility increased over the year of 1991 and it became overvalued. Let's say 1.8100 all the way up to 2.000 in August 1992. However, after observing the chart and I agree more with Investopedia that says, "it was during the summer of 1992 when Soros began building a short position in the British pound." And "German officials also made public statements that realignment within the ERM might be possible in mid-September." Then, "in response to these comments by German officials, Soros decided to increase the size of his bet massively. He went from a $1.5 billion position to a massive $10 billion in the middle of September" (www.investopedia.com www.forbes.com).
So, this means, around June 1992 to August 1992, between 1.8500 to 2.000, George Soros started to short the pound. This makes more sense. But, in September 11 -14, 1992, when the price started to fall fast and brake through the 50 EMA and horizontal support (and broke through the ichimoku cloud), Soros' position ballooned to 10 billion.
Technical:
On September 16, 1992, there was a 5%+ drop in GBP/USD one day in the major currency market.
Using my own strategy with other patterns:
September 11 -14, 1992, when the price started to fall fast and brake through the 50 EMA and horizontal support and DQed after visible dRd and ExDiv1. Price closed below and broke through the ichimoku cloud, but no tenkan-kijun yet.
Other patterns that occurred was a breakout signal and break of support.
Stage 3 ichimoku signal developed on the day on Black Wednesday (the Sterling Crisis), September 16, 1992.
After the dRd and ExDiv1 (on top) with a Crown DQ (the volume is not available to validate the pattern in this chart), there was a pb btw. 35% to 68% fib and/or horizontal resistance below cloud, which was also a 5EMAs MACD set-up. Then, a candlestick signal appeared: first a doji, then an evening star and a shallow pb signal.
Comment:
Even with a trade backed by large sponsors such as the famous Geroge Soros trade ("breaking the Bank of England"), wait for a set-up after the fact. A stop loss above 2 or 1.93 would have given me a good and conservative 1:1 or 1.5:1 reward:risk ratio or hold on to the position until a trailing stop exit. I think Soros only went 2:1 on margin (so, if he had 4 or 5 billion according to Druckenmiller, then his investment was about 10 billion. Others say 10:1 margin). Since the currency dropped about 2500 to 3000 pips in one month, and Soros' position was close to 10 billion, let's say 8 billion, then Soros would have had a short position with about 80,000 lots. If he had a stop loss above 2.00 and risked a maximum of 5% of his portfolio leverage size, then he would risk about $50,000,000, and his bet would control about 80,000 lots. A price dropped about 2000 would have netted him 1.6 billion dollars. If he had commanded 40,000 lots, then it would have taken the price to drop 3000 pips to make about 1 billion dollars. From the high of September to the low of October 1992, the price dropped about 4469 pips. I doubt that Soros caught the very top. But the drop from September 14 to the end of October was 3000 pips if he closed the trade by that time. It was reported in November that he made 1 billion in one month, so, maybe he closed the trade that month. And the price started to go flat and bottomed out mid-November and December 1992. Soro's reward:risk ratio in this trade would have been a 1.5 to 3:1 rr. It is a normal trade for an astute speculator. There is no greatest trade in the universe. He had billions to invest already. From a percentage growth perspective, this is achievable for a savvy investor. Others besides Soros made the same trade. The total time it took for his portfolio to double (or more) in would be about 5 months if he started building a position in the summer of 1992, not 1 month. But after the trade started to work in his favor, it took 1 month for the trade to work out to completion. Well, if one is familiar trading his own set-up, this is normal. It is up to others to call you great. Soros gained a sense of noticeability due to the size of his position and status. However, if it were an individual investor savvy in trading his own strategy (and not a hedge fund), then no one would have notice.
Further comments:
A trade backed by large sponsors helps.
Other views with other indicators:
Regular ichimoku -
Guppy -
BBSR Wave with 50EMA -
SAR trailing (SAR start: 0.01; increment: 0.002; max value: 0.2) -https://www.tradingview.com/x/6PMNzwvz/
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