Category Archives: Trading Loss

How Priming can improve trading performance

By | May 3, 2016 3:34 pm

Priming is an implicit memory effect in which exposure to one stimulus (i.e., perceptual pattern) influences the response to another stimulus.  Will discuss 2 case studies to make you understand the PRIMING concept.   Two groups of subjects in a psychology experiment are asked to memorize those words in a list that begin with vowels.  The… Read More »

Patience Is A Trader’s Virtue

By | April 27, 2016 5:09 pm

The money’s made in the sitting and the waiting, not the trading… Jesse Livermore “The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.”- Friedrich Nietzsche  “There are a lot of shoes on the shelf; wear only the ones that fit. If you’re extremely confident, taking a loss doesn’t bother you.” – George Soros Do… Read More »

The Recency Effect – How it affects Trading

By | April 26, 2016 3:37 pm

Raj had been watching the Nifty futures all morning, waiting patiently for a trade. Finally,Nifty came near His entry levels based on his trading system. He looked carefully at  the price action  he used to qualify his trades. Everything met his criteria. Price had turned bullish and  signaling long should be taken. “There’s no flaw… Read More »

How to preserve Mental Capital for Trading

By | April 25, 2016 5:29 pm

What have been said many time as a trader you need to preserve your trading capital.But trading is not just about managing your trading capital, but also about keeping your emotional and psychological capital intact. Today we will discuss how you can preserve your Mental capital and why this is more important than trading capital… Read More »

Why Retail Traders lose money in Stock market

By | April 20, 2016 5:23 pm

Most of Retail traders tend to think that the FII’s have some sort of secret knowledge/system/Inside News  that enables them to make huge profit in trading. However, the difference between a retail traders trying to make consistent profit doubling tripling their money in matter of months and most of them are underfunded and a professional… Read More »