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.

Importance of Effective Trading Plan in trading profitably

By | January 31, 2013 12:12 pm

Success is defined by the achievement of pre-established goals.   The key to becoming a successful trader is identifying, quantifying, strategizing, implementing, tracking, analyzing, learning and growing as a conscious person. You see, there is no such thing as “easy money”. Let’s get this upfront right now, trading is not easy and not for just… Read More »

How To Build Self-Discipline in Trading

By | January 30, 2013 12:12 pm

Having self-discipline is having the ability to follow through on your plans and goals.  Often times we get tugged in various directions and enticed by making choices that don’t help us along our path to our goals and fulfillment. “The path of least resistance is what makes all rivers and some men crooked.”   – Napoleon… Read More »

Weakest Link of Trading

By | January 29, 2013 2:25 pm

What is weakest part in trading? Is it not having proper trading system? Is it not having proper trading plan? Is it not having proper trading Software? Is it the trader themselves? I have heard traders who make looses whine about market is manipulated, Its a fake rally, market will reverse from tommrow and i… Read More »

How to Improve Futures Trading Success

By | January 28, 2013 1:58 pm

1. Ask yourself do you really want to take trading as a profession or You want to do trading as its the easiest way to make money ? Before you can develop persistence and eventually achieve success in the tough trading game, you need to first identify if this is truly what you want to… Read More »

Why Retail Traders looses money in Stock Market?

By | January 26, 2013 9:29 pm

Interesting Study by TOI:Indian Retail Investor/trader lost 84000  cores in 18 month period. Thats a Huge sum of money lost by retail traders, so what exactly lead to trading failure of retail traders in Stock market.The difference between success and failure for a trader is wafer thin, Lets elaborate with an example Amateur retail traders… Read More »

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 »