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 Trading psychology in trading

By | September 2, 2011 4:26 pm

Trading psychology contributes about 60% to success and position sizing contributes another 30%. Furthermore, most traders ignore the first two areas and don’t really have a trading system. That’s why 90% of them fail. First, I would argue that trading psychology accounts for 100% of success. Why? This conclusion is based on two findings. First,… Read More »

Poking Holes in a Theory on Markets

By | November 20, 2010 1:38 pm

By JOE NOCERA For some months now, Jeremy Grantham, a respected market strategist with GMO, an institutional asset management company, has been railing about — of all things — the efficient market hypothesis. You know what the efficient market hypothesis is, don’t you? It’s a theory that grew out of the University of Chicago’s finance… Read More »

THE SHIFT TO MENTAL ANALYSIS in Trading

By | August 5, 2010 3:32 pm

Article from “Trading in the zone” by Mark Douglas If technical analysis works so well, why would more and more of the trading community shift their focus from technical analysis of the market to mental analysis of themselves, meaning their own individual trading psychology? The most likely reason is that you’re dissatisfied with the difference… Read More »

Technical Trading Rules

By | June 15, 2010 2:09 pm

Following 10 Trading Rules can be used for Trading Future,Margin Trading and Trading using Technical s. 1. Map the Trends Study long-term charts. Begin a chart analysis with monthly and weekly charts spanning several years. A larger scale map of the market provides more visibility and a better long-term perspective on a market. Once the… Read More »