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.

Techniques for Managing Losing Positions

By | November 5, 2020 3:41 pm

From a psychological point of view nobody wants to sell at a loss as in most situations in life making mistakes and admitting them is associated with being a loser. That’s why most people prefer sticking to a losing position. They don’t want to be labeled a loser. So they start hoping their position will… Read More »

Priming the Trading Mind for Performance

By | October 27, 2020 11:41 am

Priming is an implicit memory effect in which exposure to one stimulus (i.e., perceptual pattern) influences the response to another stimulus.  Will discuss 2 case studies to make you understand the PRIMING concept. Two groups of subjects in a psychology experiment are asked to memorize those words in a list that begin with vowels.  The vowel… Read More »