Category Archives: Trader Characteristics

What’s Your Trading Brain Type?

By | November 30, 2015 4:13 pm

There are five general brain types  Among traders People with Compulsive Brains tend to get stuck in a particular thought about the market. “It’s too high.” “It’s too manipulated.” “It’s too risky.” It’s too…” whatever. People with Compulsive Brains tend to operate entirely on their own terms and are generally not open to feedback or… Read More »

How Professional Traders Learn From Their Trading Mistakes

By | November 26, 2015 4:18 pm

Most of us want to be as perfect as we can. We do not want to experience failure or setbacks or roadblocks.  In fact, most of us have been raised that failure, in any case and at any time, is ‘bad’ and success is ‘good’. So if that is the case, then thinking in a very simplistic and… Read More »

Thought Process of Losing trader

By | November 25, 2015 4:23 pm

1. Losing traders think that because they reviewed price performance history, and saw patterns or results, trading in real time would be simple . They don’t understand that real time trading involves risk management, discipline, and a developed trading plan and probably never will. 2. Losing traders believe that what they learned in textbooks will… Read More »

Motivational Story of Charlie Munger

By | November 20, 2015 4:35 pm

Charles Thomas Munger (born January 1, 1924) is an American businessman, lawyer, investor, and philanthropist. He is vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate controlled by Warren Buffett; in this capacity, Buffett describes Charlie Munger as “my partner.” Munger served as chairman of Wesco Financial Corporation from 1984 through 2011 (Wesco was approximately 80%-owned by… Read More »

The importance of failure in succeeding at trading

By | November 19, 2015 4:13 pm

Different shapes and forms. Failure comes in all different shapes and forms.  The distance you fall after a failure,  time it took to get to the failure,and whether you get back up determines that shape and form.   I realize there are a million posts on why failure is important but success is important, especially in trading.… Read More »

Are you a “News” Based Trader or Price action Based ?

By | November 18, 2015 4:24 pm

Many traders are always running behind news to understand the future course of action in market. With all the recent news surrounding Bihar Election and various  economic reports and other market-moving news events that happen each day, it can seem overwhelming to try and keep up with them all. What’s a trader to do? Simple… Read More »

Maintaining Trading Discipline; Easier Said Than Done

By | November 16, 2015 4:26 pm

The most important trait of winning trader is “DISCIPLINE” Sounds simple. And everyone should find this sentence easy to agree with. Basically, it just means following a specific trading strategy and not deviating from it. But people differ in terms of their ability to maintain self-control and discipline. Discipline vs. Emotions It is easy to… Read More »

Can Traders make money in Stock market?

By | November 13, 2015 3:08 pm

Amateur retail traders tend to think that the professional trader or Institutional investor have some sort of secret knowledge/system that enables them to make huge profit in trading. However, the difference between a retail traders trying to make consistent profit  and a professional traders zeros down to the trading mindset and trading psychology.The difference between… Read More »