Category Archives: Trader Characteristics

Trading Hijacked by Emotions

By | December 25, 2020 7:44 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 »

Breaking Bad Trading Habits

By | December 15, 2020 3:33 pm

Success as a trader means being consistently profitable which  requires developing a good trading plan and, most importantly, sticking to it. One of the most destructive habits a trader can have is ignoring the rules of their own trading plan about when to enter and exit a trade. Breaking this bad habit means critically examining how you… Read More »

Reasons Why Most Traders Fail, And How You Can Avoid It

By | December 14, 2020 3:33 pm

In terms of Trading, one of the most searched topics on google is Option trading strategies. Traders are simply fascinated by Option trading strategies, thinking there is a holy grail out there, to churn profits month after month. I wasn’t spared from it either. I was lost and confused in my early years of trading. I was… Read More »

Box Metrics for Intraday Traders

By | December 12, 2020 2:31 pm

A Decade Old Article but worth sharing One of the best ways of understanding your trading–and your trading psychology–is to collect data on your trading. There are many metrics available for understanding your trading patterns (see the links below), but here are a few unusual metrics that I’ve found to be especially illuminating: 1) P/L… Read More »

Trading Behavior – Emotion vs Logic

By | December 7, 2020 3:30 pm

Shared by Chirag Blog Reader The market doesn’t always act rationally, and neither do traders. Explore how emotion can potentially trump logic, cloud judgment, and lead to sub-optimal trading decisions. Using Technical Analysis Identify trends to know what and when to trade In the 1970s, two university behavioral science researchers, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky,… Read More »

Discover Your Trading Type | Trader Personality

By | November 16, 2020 8:29 am

Subjective: Based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes, or opinions.Proceeding from or taking place in a person’s mind rather than the external world. Subjective traders they are intertwined with their trades.Their signals are generally entering out of greed and exiting based on their own internal fear. The believe in their opinions more than the… Read More »