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 to Prepare Successful Trading Plan

By | November 3, 2015 3:30 pm

In Continuation with Previous article What to Include in Successful Trading Plan Keep good records Good traders always want to know why and how they win or lose a trade. Keeping good records helps you recognize what goes into a successful trade. They also prevent you from repeating mistakes. Your trading records should contain the… Read More »

What to Include in Successful Trading Plan

By | November 2, 2015 3:33 pm

Do your homework You can’t expect to successfully trade in a vacuum. Therefore, before the market opens, be aware of what is going on around the world. What are the overseas markets doing? Also, learn what the economic or earnings data is and when that information is due out. Rather than taking an unnecessary risk,… Read More »

Do you want to be The “Perfectionist” in trading ?

By | October 27, 2015 4:18 pm

Perfectionism may help some people succeed in many other careers. It is often the difference between success and failure. We have all been brought up knowing that we must strive to be all that we can be, and to put everything into achieving our goals. But perfectionism can be fatal in market timing (and all… Read More »

Disappointment in Trading

By | October 26, 2015 4:21 pm

Disappointment in trading, in it’s myriad of manifestations – missing out, leaving big money on the table, taking a loss, etc – is inevitable for even the best traders. It’s an elemental fact that traders who understand this, internalize it, and make it a part of their trading strategy are the most successful. One of… Read More »

How to develop yourself as Profitable trader

By | October 23, 2015 3:39 pm

In order to start making progress, we need to deconstruct what it means to learn. Throughout life you’ve probably believed that reading something and being able to explain what you read to another person is learning. That’s more or less what traditional education has defined as learning, and when you’re unable to do it you… Read More »

Stock market is the most wonderful place to make money

By | October 22, 2015 3:05 pm

Stock market is “the most” wonderful place to make money “for the prepared“. And stock market is “the most hellish place” to loose money “for the unprepared”. What are you? Are you prepared? Prepared with a plan and applying yourself? The measure of your preparedness should reflect in your successes. If there is no success,… Read More »

Happy Saraswati/ Ayudha Puja

By | October 21, 2015 10:31 am

We have grown up being told Lakshmi (goddess of wealth) and Saraswati (goddess of knowledge) always fight and avoid staying in the same place. This is based on the observation that rich businessmen tend to be uneducated (both Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were college dropouts, we are repeatedly told) and educated people tend to… Read More »