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.

How Emotions Hijack trading

By | May 9, 2016 3:37 pm

Every trades have experienced strong emotions in his/her trading and have struggled with them. One of the main reason for erratic trading results ie. Having big loss because you stayed on the trade hoping the market will reverse or missing out on big profit by exiting early have been attributed to emotions. Strong emotions have… Read More »

How Priming can improve trading performance

By | May 3, 2016 3:34 pm

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… Read More »

Patience Is A Trader’s Virtue

By | April 27, 2016 5:09 pm

The money’s made in the sitting and the waiting, not the trading… Jesse Livermore “The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.”- Friedrich Nietzsche  “There are a lot of shoes on the shelf; wear only the ones that fit. If you’re extremely confident, taking a loss doesn’t bother you.” – George Soros Do… Read More »

The Recency Effect – How it affects Trading

By | April 26, 2016 3:37 pm

Raj had been watching the Nifty futures all morning, waiting patiently for a trade. Finally,Nifty came near His entry levels based on his trading system. He looked carefully at  the price action  he used to qualify his trades. Everything met his criteria. Price had turned bullish and  signaling long should be taken. “There’s no flaw… Read More »