Category Archives: Trader Characteristics

The Counter-intuitive Way To Control Your Emotions In Trading

By | May 25, 2015 3:44 pm

I don’t know any trader who doesn’t struggle at times with their emotions. Likewise, I don’t know any trader who doesn’t wish that they could control their emotions better. Here’s an excerpt from an email I just received from a trader named Srinivasa: I have a problem with hesitation. Even though I have a strategy… Read More »

How Traders can Optimize Trading Mindset Part-II

By | May 21, 2015 3:30 pm

In Continuation of Part -I Build You should have back tested and trusted trading system, rather than plucking one from the internet. I know it’s very tempting to simply copy the trading system of some (supposedly) successful trader, and it might very well be a very profitable strategy but the fact that it works for… Read More »

How Traders can Optimize Trading Mindset Part-I

By | May 20, 2015 4:01 pm

How to become a profitable trader has far more to do with mindset than with a specific trading strategy. In fact, no  trading strategy can be profitable if a trader has the wrong mindset. Today we will discuss How traders can optimize their  trading mindset Trading Goals This really is the kind of principle that… Read More »

Trader’s journey from losing trader to winning Trader

By | May 15, 2015 3:32 pm

We accumulate information. We learn by buying books, asking questions,  going to seminars and researching what really works in trading. We begin to trade with our new-found knowledge. We make profits only to give it back very quickly, realizing that we may need more knowledge or information. We accumulate more information. We switch the stocks… Read More »