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.

Box Metrics for Intraday Traders

By | December 12, 2020 2:31 pm

A Decade Old Article but worth sharing One of the best ways of understanding your trading–and your trading psychology–is to collect data on your trading. There are many metrics available for understanding your trading patterns (see the links below), but here are a few unusual metrics that I’ve found to be especially illuminating: 1) P/L… Read More »

Successful Day Trading Secrets

By | December 9, 2020 3:33 pm

Years ago in college, I remember reading Greek mythology. These were wondrous stories of adventure, courage, exploration and searching. Yet there is one principle that stands out from these many great tales that has served to guide my life in business and most especially trading. The Greek word “sophrosene” or “balance.” It teaches that in… Read More »

Trading Behavior – Emotion vs Logic

By | December 7, 2020 3:30 pm

Shared by Chirag Blog Reader The market doesn’t always act rationally, and neither do traders. Explore how emotion can potentially trump logic, cloud judgment, and lead to sub-optimal trading decisions. Using Technical Analysis Identify trends to know what and when to trade In the 1970s, two university behavioral science researchers, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky,… Read More »

Discover Your Trading Type | Trader Personality

By | November 16, 2020 8:29 am

Subjective: Based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes, or opinions.Proceeding from or taking place in a person’s mind rather than the external world. Subjective traders they are intertwined with their trades.Their signals are generally entering out of greed and exiting based on their own internal fear. The believe in their opinions more than the… Read More »