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.

Trading Psychology

By | October 28, 2011 2:35 pm

As a sportsman(So too as a trader), you’ve got to realize that it’s not the end of the world if you lose one game or more..You should get down to basics and play every point on its merit. The moment you sit down to differentiate the first point from the last, emotions take over. Now,… Read More »

Traits of Becoming Successful trader

By | September 23, 2011 10:57 am

Every trader need to Identifying his Strengths and Weaknesses Trading requires as much honesty as is objectively possible. To be able to go over each trade and determine what you did right and what you did wrong requires putting ego aside for the benefit of becoming a better trader. You have to be able to… Read More »

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 »