Category Archives: Trading Psychology

Trading psychology is ‘something’ that a trader creates from existing personality traits that are not initially related to trading, but surface from trading without method understanding.

Are you trading on Luck or trading Skills ?

By | April 20, 2013 10:50 am

Some describe trading as purely based on “LUCK” , “Tukka marna” as we call it in Hindi, but from my perceptive trading is all about “Skills” . Skills take time to develop. Take an Example of Engineer, To get an Engineering degree a student has to study for 6 years ( 2 Years for entrance… Read More »

Accepting Loss in trading

By | April 17, 2013 2:23 pm

One of the fundamental principals of trading stocks, or anything for that matter, is; you never play with money you cannot afford to lose. You should not be trading money needed for car payments, rent, food, diapers etc. The reason for this is, no matter how sound a system or piece of advice may sound, trades often go against… Read More »

How to avoid Revenge Trading

By | April 12, 2013 5:02 pm

Infosys did it again, 22% down Many traders lost a fortune few made a good money. Traders who have lost money due to big gap down in stock will not make Emotional trades to recover lost money asap and the account is destroyed fast. They will involve themselves in revenge trading, as they are in… Read More »

What makes a great trader?

By | April 11, 2013 4:11 pm

Yesterday we discussed Greatest Trade of All time, Today on the auspicious occasion Navratri  Let me share Qualities to become  Great traders. Most of Great traders have the below mentioned qualities: Empathy and the ability to listen. Faith in their own ability to get things done, if life and in work. Humility, and a willingness… Read More »

Greatest trades of all time

By | April 10, 2013 2:07 pm

What were the greatest trades of all time? Who made them? Here is a list of the who, what, when, where, and how of the  greatest trades that were ever made. While the risk management  while executing many of these trades is not what many traders would want, we can see many of these as… Read More »

Do You Have What It Takes to Be A Trader

By | April 5, 2013 6:43 pm

Markets have been on a roller coaster ride last week. These kind of markets are real test of trader. Today’s trading lesson is going to revolve around one simple question: “Do you have what it takes to be a trader?” I firmly believe that anyone can learn to trade successfully, it’s also true that there… Read More »

Benefits of Making a Trading Plan

By | April 3, 2013 4:00 pm

I always suggests trader to create a trading plan before markets opens and strictly execute the trades as per the plan. Its a well know adage Plan the trade and Trade the plan.Most of traders trade impulsively in trading,without any plan, they go as per there intuition and end result is losses. I have written… Read More »