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.

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 »

Emotional Swings During Day Trading:How to Conquer them

By | March 29, 2013 2:23 pm

Lets illustrate the trading emotion using an Intraday Trades,similar emotions can occur over Swing trades and positional trades ranging for weeks or even months. 9:15 AM: You watch as the market opens. You are looking for a good buy entry point into Reliance Infra@330 based on your analysis you think that Reliance Infra  has bottomed out… Read More »

Risk Management Rule for Traders

By | March 26, 2013 7:29 pm

A random person is pulled off the street and given 100,000 to trade.  They have no prior experience which, on the bright side, means they have no bad habits, emotional baggage, or preconceived notions.  Before trading they go through a five day crash course on market basics (order entry process, chart reading, pattern recognition, etc…). … Read More »

Winners and Losers in trading

By | March 25, 2013 3:30 pm

Go through the below Points and Decides Which side you are on ?   Losers don’t set stop loss order expecting to be faster then the market in case of reversal; winners know that any time news can make the price reacts suddenly. Therefore use protective stop loss in case of news release. This one… Read More »

How to Protect Emotional Trading Capital

By | March 22, 2013 4:32 pm

What a week this one was. Wild, sharp, quick, and volatile moves. If you held a position more than 5 minutes the odds are that you felt some pain financially or emotionally. Big winners turned into small winners and small winners turned into big losers in the time it took for a restroom break. Markets… Read More »