Category Archives: Trading Education

Trading Behavior – Emotion vs Logic

By | December 7, 2020 3:30 pm

Shared by Chirag Blog Reader The market doesn’t always act rationally, and neither do traders. Explore how emotion can potentially trump logic, cloud judgment, and lead to sub-optimal trading decisions. Using Technical Analysis Identify trends to know what and when to trade In the 1970s, two university behavioral science researchers, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky,… Read More »

Is Day Trading Really A Sucker’s Game?

By | December 1, 2020 3:30 pm

Successful day traders commit to their business. Even then, most day traders fail in their first year. Brokerage firms, training services, and other traders have a vested interest in making trading seem like an easy activity that you can work into your life. But it’s a job — a job that some people love, but… Read More »

Why Is Trading So Difficult?

By | November 28, 2020 7:05 pm

Everyone comes into the world of trading with some type of expectation. Some people see trading as a shortcut to riches while others call it a Gambling Den. The truth is trading is NOT easy but it’s also NOT “rigged.” Like any worthwhile enterprnuer Journey, trading has a steep learning curve followed by lot of… Read More »

Profitable Trading Methodology

By | November 28, 2020 9:34 am

As people get into this great business of trading, many are exposed to a heck of a lot misinformation.  So, that being said, let me lay out what I truly believe are the 5 keys to a profitable trading methodology:  Reliability.  This basically means at what percentage of the time do you actually make money? … Read More »

Trading is Against Human Nature

By | November 24, 2020 3:39 pm

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 data announcements, or economic reports with the goal of buying cheaply before prices may run up, or selling ‘expensive’ before prices move lower; but those… Read More »