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.

Quotes from “Trading for a Living” by Alexander Elder

By | January 25, 2013 2:55 pm

I keep reading through Trading For Living one of the best book ever written, This time i have complied quotes for the benefit of my readers.   “The market does not know you exist. You can do nothing to influence it. You can only control your behavior.”     “The ocean does not care about… Read More »

Trading and Intuition – Following Your Instincts During Trading

By | January 24, 2013 11:29 am

I’ve heard from many traders that they often take decisions based on instincts. Actually, all non-quants use intuition in some form or another. If you are not using a program that takes all signals that your system produces, how do you decide between several equally good looking trading setups with similar risk to reward? Do… Read More »

Why Traders Lose Discipline trading stocks,forex and commodity

By | January 17, 2013 3:12 pm

Nifty has been trading in a tight range from whole of December onwards. It moves for 3-4 days than keep trading in a tight range.Trending markets are very easy to make money provided you are on right side of trend,difficulty comes in sideways market. Traders buy in anticipation of a trend and when market does… Read More »

Learning from Trading Losses

By | January 15, 2013 1:31 pm

Most of us want to be as perfect as we can. We do not want to experience failure or setbacks or roadblocks.  In fact, most of us have been raised that failure, in any case and at any time, is ‘bad’ and success is ‘good’. So if that is the case, then thinking in a very simplistic and… Read More »

Is Stock Trading gambling?

By | January 11, 2013 3:08 pm

Infosys came with a good set of earning after 4 quarters of bad earning and  moved up 16% today many traders were left with a surprise to see such a big move.Few traders  called me and said “Bramesh Sir asa move ana ke baad tu mujhe trading and gambling ek jasa hi lagtha hai ”… Read More »

How to survive stock market bubble

By | January 10, 2013 1:25 pm

An Interesting Article By Brian Perry, Investopedia In almost all instances, the root cause of a financial crisis is an asset bubble. But how does this bubble form, what finally causes it to pop and how can investors profit before it goes bust? In order for a market to attain the excessive valuations necessary to… Read More »

Trading Secrets of Successful traders

By | January 9, 2013 1:46 pm

During my training sessions i would like to ask my students what do you mean by trading? Most of the students will answer trading is all about mathematics and probabilities. Some will say its all about charts, other will say its all about earnings and future prospects of earnings about the particular stocks or Sensex.… Read More »

Common Traits of Successful Traders

By | January 7, 2013 3:42 pm

Learn to Lose Money to Make Money Unfortunately, it is the sad reality that the majority of people reading this are not profitable traders. If I could single out the most common culprit for sabotaging your trading it would have to be not being able to take a loss. This is especially prevalent amongst new… Read More »