Category Archives: Trading Education

Universal principles of Professional Traders

By | July 3, 2014 3:05 pm

1). Preparation Professional Trader #1 priority in trading is risk managment. Professional Trader believes that once you get your trading system and position size in place you must use the amount you will risk on each trade to determine your risk of ruin. His point is that if your risk of ruin is not zero… Read More »

Why Human Nature Works Against You as a Trader

By | June 28, 2014 1:19 pm

In this article, we attempt to look at the psychological elements of trade, risk, and money management as presented in the  Successful Traders research series. The goal of trading is to make money by forecasting future price movements.This is inherently difficult because, as human beings, we cannot tell the future. Surely many new traders analyze… Read More »

How to make a Trading Plan

By | June 21, 2014 4:13 pm

“Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets planning.”  —Thomas Jefferson “Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.” — Napoleon Hill “He who fails to plan, plans to fail.” However you want to look at it, or whomever you may want… Read More »

What separates the 10% that make money from the 90% that don’t?

By | June 20, 2014 4:15 pm

Must read for every kind of trader. Enjoy your weekend! What separates the 10% that make money from the 90% that don’t? 10,000 hours. The key to success in any cognitively complex field is, to a large extent, a matter of practicing a specific task for a total of around 10,000 hours. 10,000 hours equates… Read More »