Category Archives: Trading Education

Difference between Trader and Gambler

By | April 11, 2014 4:24 pm

The vast majority of traders are gamblers, maybe the majority of market participants are in fact gamblers. The traders that are gamblers trade with no plan and without understanding the odds are stacked against them. Whether it is buying far out of the money options with no method for profitability or randomly chasing stocks on… Read More »

Why Traders Struggle With Discipline

By | April 3, 2014 4:12 pm

If there’s a single theme that dominates discussions of trading psychology, it’s discipline. Traders are routinely encouraged to control their emotions, stick to their processes, keep journals, whatever.  If you lapse in your trading, it’s because you’re not sufficiently disciplined.  Call it the puritanical approach to trading: if you don’t stick to the straight and… Read More »