Discipline - Majority of traders are not disciplined in their approach, else they would not be failing. These failed traders simply hate to hear the word Discipline!
Discipline...
Money management technique is twice as important as Forex trading techniques. If you rush to earn a lot of money in a short period of time, you will take larger...
Everyone has a different style of trading, one that makes him comfortable. But once you pick your spot in an educated way, do something about it.
Many times the...
If a trader has a positive attitude, it allows him to believe that by focusing on the process – the results will take care of themselves. This involves an element...
In your head, you beat yourself up a little because you know that when you started your “live” trading, you made an agreement with yourself to take the first 10...
George Soros is another great example of legend distorting fact. His role in Black Wednesday (September 16, 1992) is well publicized. Soros’ Quantum Fund sold short...
It is unlikely that your losses are attributable to a large number of small losses, far more likely that they came from a few large losing trades, i.e. trades that...
When analyzing any aspect of market behavior or when puzzling as to why the market did not move as we expected, it behooves us to keep this very simple fact in...
In trading, you can’t control what the market will do. No matter how much you want the market to go in a certain direction, there is nothing you can do to make...
There is a fundamental characteristic of unsuccessful forex traders: they trade forex because it’s exciting, cool, or for its sex appeal.
The mystery behind the...
As a trader, can you admit that your trading system is just experiencing a drawdown period? Everyone, including myself, has had their trading entry system generate...
Trading is a game of probabilities. Imagine we're flipping a coin. Heads I win one dollar - tails you win one dollar. Simple.
Heads and tails will each come up...
Trading looks deceptively simple, yet few succeed. If you read interviews with the great traders, you will perhaps be quite surprised to learn that very few are...
Many of the ideas covered in this book are already in practice by professional money managers. However, the ideas that are widespread among professional money managers...
Sitting and trading all day long, or trying to take every trade that comes along is also an almost guaranteed way to failure.
I have not met many traders who...