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 »
Most of the time, markets are very close to efficient (in the academic sense of the word.) This means that most of the time, price movement is random and we have no reason, from a technical perspective, to be involved in those markets. There are, however, repeatable patterns in prices. This is the good news; it… Read More »
*Everyone has a stop-loss level: For some, it’s a price; for others, it’s a pain threshold. * It’s not stress and emotion that get in the way of trading; it’s the stress and emotion that results when trading becomes personal: about you, rather than about supply and demand. * The measure of a trader is… Read More »
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 »
Any quick drive through Goa Casino makes it pretty clear who is making in the money – the Casinos! Why do gamblers keep going back despite losing most of the time? Misplaced hope, fantasies about the big win, promising themselves they will walk away when they are up and still winning, and probably the inability… Read More »
“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 »
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 »
Structure your position sizes and stop losses in trades so that if you are wrong you will not lose more than 1% of your trading capital on any one trade. Reducing your risk per trade to 2% of trading capital would be a huge… Read More »
A sideways market? A trending market? A trend continuing; A trend reversal? Getting stopped out of a trade? Winning a trade? Breaking even? Losing a trade? All questions that need to be answered if you are to have confidence in your trading system. For it is confidence that allows you to profit from the markets. Ridiculous notion? … Read More »
Trading offers a wide world of opportunities to traders new and experienced alike. It’s unfortunate, but trading profitably with any level of consistency often takes time and effort for a trader to develop their approach. Along the way are many hurdles and perhaps even more unfortunately, quite a few of those hurdles can be self-imposed.… Read More »