Category Archives: Trading Education

The importance of doing “No Trade”

By | February 21, 2014 5:57 pm

Australian cricketer-turned-commentator Dean Jones, in an interview for Wisden, observed that two-thirds of Sachin Tendulkar’s game is based around defence. Most of the shots in any Sachin century, he says, are based on forward defence, back-foot defence and letting the ball go. As any coach would vouch, letting the ball go is possibly as important… Read More »

Things that Great Traders have Declared Independence From

By | February 5, 2014 4:29 pm

“The goal of a successful/Great trader is to make the best trades. Money is secondary.” Great traders do not have to be right about any one trade, their success is based on winning more than they lose on a large amount of trades. Great traders do not need trade ideas from other traders, they trade… Read More »

Why Traders Fail ?

By | February 4, 2014 3:47 pm

1. Lack of direction. Traders often fail to establish clear goals and create plans to achieve those goals. When traders fail to develop complete business and trading plans before entering the market they are setting themselves up for failure. 2. Impatience. This occurs when traders try to accomplish too much too soon, or expect to get results far faster than… Read More »

Chasing a Trade and The Power of Regret

By | February 1, 2014 1:31 pm

Everyone knows that chasing price is usually not beneficial, we either end up catching the move too late, or we get poor trade location, which makes it more difficult to manage the trade. However, there are other forms of chasing that are just as common, maybe more common, and just as counter-productive. Traders who are… Read More »