Mental discipline is a finite resource, much like a muscle, that becomes exhausted with use.Mental Discipline is required for focus, concentration, and self‐control it can become easily depleted. As Mental Discipline becomes eroded, we become vulnerable to emotion‐driven decisions and the erratic trading behavior that follows. we can become more susceptible to the trading errors.… Read More »
Trading is a profession and nothing less. Most professions such as medical, legal, psychological,pharmaceutical, technical, mechanical, engineering, etc., require several years of education, study and effort. Not to mention the money required for learning the necessary skills. Then it takes many more years of actual practice to develop the skills and gain the experience to… Read More »
Most of traders develop trading systems based on patterns we see in price action or in momentum or other indicators. But, what if we took “time” into account as well? When ever we talk of TIME, one person which come to our Mind is legendary W D Gann. But there are many other famous traders… Read More »
Trading is a completely different animal entirely. I’m not condemning any approach to the markets at all. Cycles work, astrology works, Elliott Wave works, Gann methods work, trend line breaks work, technical analysis works, fundamental analysis works, moving averages work, oscillators work, chart patterns work, etc. However, no approach, no matter how good, will work… Read More »
What is Risk? Risk is exposure. In trading, risk refers to exposure to the price changes of a stocks/index. Often, risk makes people wary of trading stocks, commodities, or currencies. It is true that risk is an integral part of every trade. In other words, there is no such thing as a “risk free” trade.… Read More »
Money management is the single most neglected and overlooked key in the trading business. In my experience, money management is by far the most essential element to actually making significant money from the markets! Everyone spends such an enormous amount of effort, trying to find ways to optimize entry into the markets, or develop systems,… Read More »
We are going to Discuss a Case Study (Previous one can be read here) of one of My Student How we were able to help him to get rid of a bad Trading habit as part of Psychological and Performance Coaching, Many of readers would also be facing the same trading problems can learn from… Read More »
People will go to great lengths attempting to avoid discomfort. And as traders, much of what we do is in response to being uncomfortable. This is an extremely critical concept to understand and explains many trading problems and mistakes. The problem is not in being uncomfortable per se, the real problem is that our efforts… Read More »
Source Paul Tudor Jones II: “The most important rule of trading is to play great defense, not great offense. Every day I assume every position I have is wrong. I know where my stop risk points are going to be. … If they are going against me, then I have a game plan for getting… Read More »
When a String of bad trades erodes your trading account emotions are high and expectations get lower and lower. Most traders spend a large amount of time fighting themselves on the path to trading success, often without fully realizing what it is they are fighting against.In the end, we know that we have no one… Read More »