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.

Disposition Effect: Why Retail traders Lose in Stock Market

By | April 29, 2020 4:36 pm

Disposition Effect: It’s a tendency to close a profitable position early and hold on to a losing position longer, hoping that prices recover. Researchers working at the Centre For Analytical Finance at Indian School of Business, after examining terabytes of data pertaining to trading behavior of retail and institutional traders, found that trading done by… Read More »

Solution for Loss Aversion in Trading

By | April 18, 2020 12:54 pm

For years, I was losing money because I didn’t get it. Not really. You hear it everywhere, it’s probably the best-known trader’s mantra in the world: Cut Your Losers Fast And Let Your Winners Run But most of traders are unable to implement the same in their trading. Today we will discuss the reasoning behind it. Loss… Read More »

Why We Have Erratic Trading Behavior

By | April 9, 2020 5:14 pm

Everything that you can do wrong as a trader is going to be the result of what you’re afraid of and the effects that fear has on your perception of market information. It’s not just the recent things outside of ourselves like the market or our trade setups that CAN AFFECT our trading performance. If… Read More »