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.

“Masterful Inactivity” and “Inactivity”

By | June 10, 2017 7:10 pm

Trading and Masterful Inactivity Learning to be masterfully inactive doesn’t come easily, but it pays. The master himself said: “The desire for constant action irrespective of underlying conditions is responsible for many losses in Wall Street even among the professionals, who feel that they must take home some money every day, as though they were… Read More »

Common Trading Mistakes

By | June 8, 2017 4:46 pm

There is no such thing as a “perfect trader.” Making mistakes in trading is inevitable. How you handle the mistakes is what separates successful traders from unsuccessful traders. There is nothing wrong with making mistakes, as long as you learn from them. The problem comes in when you start to repeat mistakes over and over… Read More »

The importance of doing “No Trade”

By | June 1, 2017 5:05 pm

Australian cricketer-turned-commentator Dean Jones, in an interview for Wisden, observed that two-thirds of Sachin Tendulkar’s game is based around defence. Most of the shots in any Sachin century, he says, are based on forward defence, back-foot defence and letting the ball go. As any coach would vouch, letting the ball go is possibly as important… Read More »

How I Deal with Trading Losses

By | May 29, 2017 4:41 pm

One of the fundamental principals of trading stocks, or anything for that matter, is; you never play with money you cannot afford to lose. You should not be trading money needed daily expenses. The reason for this is, no matter how sound a system or piece of advice may sound, trades often go against you. Trading money you can… Read More »

Using INVERSION to be a better Trader ?

By | May 27, 2017 6:08 pm

The ancient Stoic philosophers like Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, and Epictetus regularly conducted an exercise known as a premeditatio malorum, which translates to a “premeditation of evils.” The goal of this exercise was to envision the negative things that could happen in life. For example, the Stoics would imagine what it would be like to lose their job… Read More »

How to maintain high level of energy during Trading Hours

By | May 10, 2017 3:41 pm

Source During my interaction in trading session, Many traders complained they feel exhausted,loss of energy during trading hours,and when opportunity comes are unable to capitalize over a rewarding  trade. Today we will discuss above how to maintain high level of energy during trading hours. Top traders are able to maintain high energy throughout the whole… Read More »