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.

Trading Journal: Important step towards Professional trading

By | June 10, 2015 6:00 pm

Elite performers in all competitive fields study the past to help improve their ability in the future. The same goes for elite traders. Today we will disucss 3 reasons why you should keep a trading journal. You’ve most likely heard it before that journaling can be used to improve your trading, but for whatever reason… Read More »

Do You Suffer from Performance Anxiety in Trading?

By | June 9, 2015 6:11 pm

Have you ever been unnecessarily over conscious about your trading that it affected your performance negatively? Then you, have just experienced a classic case of stage fright or performance anxiety. Performance anxiety usually occurs when you scrutinize every single detail of your trading decisions too much, to the point that each action becomes subject to… Read More »

Types of Confidence in Trading

By | June 4, 2015 5:11 pm

I’ve been getting a lot of questions about it confidence lately. In my experience as a trader and performance coach, I see three types of confidence among traders, and the type of confidence is of critical importance when it comes to discipline. The three types of confidence:  False/Imaginary Confidence Temporary/On-Off Confidence True Confidence   False… Read More »

Reacting versus Predicting in Trading

By | June 1, 2015 3:47 pm

Most of the best/Professional traders I have read about and know of personally do not predict what will happen they trade what is happening. New/Amateur traders always want to predict, they want to argue about their beliefs and why something must happen or will happen. Most Professional traders are rich because they are flexible, they… Read More »

Is it possible for an amateur trader to make sustainable profits ?

By | May 29, 2015 3:59 pm

Every traders wants to trade Big with a well funded trading capital of at least 10 lakh but very few are able to achieve this feat. Its often said Making the First Million is the most difficult thing once achieved money will flow in your coffers.   Trading small account is very difficult when compared… Read More »

Disposition Effect: Why Retail traders Lose in Stock Market

By | May 28, 2015 3:59 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 »