In trading, you have two choices: Follow YOUR TRADING STRATEGY Fail. Any trader who consistently makes money in the market will tell you that unless you create and follow a plan, you will fail. If you are one of the few who have written a trading plan, you are off to a good start for… Read More »
Discipline your self: This is what helps one to gain in the market. When the market movements as per your trading setup asks you to enter, book profit or loss just obey it. Do not let your emotion enter here thinking you will beat the market. You can always enter the position later on instead of… Read More »
Through my reflections about how I made the turn from unprofitable to profitable trader I have been able to locate some of the specific changes in my train of thought that caused this to happen. I have realized that the way in which I approached trading changed slowly but surely into a way which allowed… Read More »
1. Ask yourself do you really want to take trading as a profession or You want to do trading as its the easiest way to make money ? Before you can develop persistence and eventually achieve success in the tough trading game, you need to first identify if this is truly what you want to… Read More »
In Continuation with Part -I 6. “Be like Machine” As human beings emotions pay a key role in our existence, for a trader emotions can be a source of great pain. Trading psychology and the management of your emotions in a trade play a key role in overall success. Fear and greed can cut your… Read More »
1. 10,000 hours In his recent book Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell describes the 10,000-Hour Rule, claiming that the key to success in any cognitively complex field is, to a large extent, a matter of practicing a specific task for a total of around 10,000 hours. 10,000 hours equates to around 4hrs a… Read More »
On the first glance, trading doesn’t seem to be that hard: you can either buy or sell, that’s it. At the same time, the potential profits a trader can make are limitless, especially when leverage is added to the equation. If you combine these two factors, they make the ideal couple for smart marketers and… Read More »
Over the years, I have seen several people (including myself) lose fortunes while trading and I’ve found that invariably, it would be for the same reasons. Such reasons appear mostly psychological and occur often in the trading scene. It is a known fact 80% of traders lose money and 20% makes profits on the expense… Read More »
Failure is part and parcel of trading but till a certain limit. At first if you don’t succeed, try, try again. And when you fail as a trader repeatedly fail and bust your trading account, is it’s wise to continue trading ? Long ago psychologists mapped out something called the inverted U theory of stress and… Read More »
Emotions play perhaps the biggest role in determining whether a trader ultimately succeeds or fails. Developing a working system is an ability that most traders ultimately develop. Some people even develop or find excellent trading systems that only need to be followed exactly as the system is intended to be followed, and the trader will make… Read More »