Tag Archives: trades

How to improve trading from Mark Douglas

By | July 17, 2014 4:33 pm

1. The four trading fears 95% of the trading errors you are likely to make will stem from your attitudes about being wrong, losing money, missing out, and leaving money on the table – the four trading fears 2. The proverbial empathy gap You may already have some awareness of much of what you need… Read More »

11 Biases That Affect Traders

By | November 28, 2013 4:13 pm

Overconfidence As the name suggested, it is the irrational faith in one’s skills, methodology or beliefs. For example, you see a certain chart pattern and make a maximum leveraged trade, even though you understand that any chart pattern cannot predict market with certainty. Trading excessively after a winning streak also shows overconfidence. Cognitive Dissonance It… Read More »

Qualities of Great Trader

By | June 17, 2013 1:04 pm

Great traders have really mastered a core set of skills: 1. They recognize when they are wrong. 2. They incorporate new information into their existing plans. 3. They execute at a high level. They perform. 4. They recognize when they are right, and they push their winners. Below, I review each core competency in greater… Read More »

Trading lessons

By | May 27, 2013 1:42 pm

Trading lessons from worlds best traders sharing their experience in one liner. Must read for trading community. On the school of hard knocks: The game taught me the game. And it didn’t spare me rod while teaching. It took me five years to learn to play the game intelligently enough to make big money when… Read More »

Trading Basics

By | May 22, 2013 1:25 pm

Remember that becoming a profitable trader is a journey, not just a destination. The perfect trader does not yet exist. Try to become a better trader each day and enjoy the progress you make. Concentrate on learning the craft of technical analysis and on improving your trading skills, rather than focusing solely on the amount… Read More »

Tips for Traders

By | March 1, 2013 1:51 pm

1. Bulls make a little. Bears make a little. Pigs get slaughtered In other words, do not be a greedy trader. If you are a bull, don’t expect to get in at the bottom and out at the top. If you are a bear, don’t expect to pick an exact market top and ride a… Read More »

Are you a professional stock trader ?

By | January 21, 2013 3:07 pm

To taste success in trading whether you are a Stock, Bonds, Forex  or commodity trader professionalism will keep you one step ahead from rest of the trading crowd. So with the below points try to analyses whether you are taking your trading as a professional or still as an amateur who keep on losing money.… Read More »

Trading Errors

By | November 1, 2012 4:36 pm

Ignoring the downside of a trade. Most traders, when entering a trade, look only at the money they think they will make by taking the trade. They rarely consider that the trade may go against them and that they could lose. The reality is that whenever someone buys a futures contract, someone else is selling that… Read More »

Habits of Rich and Successful traders

By | September 21, 2012 2:40 pm

Psychological Traits of the Rich Trader They have the ability to admit they were wrong and get out of a trade. They know the place where price proves them wrong. They have the ability to not only close a losing trade but reverse and go in the other direction when it is called for. The… Read More »

10 Rules for Traders

By | September 20, 2012 1:50 pm

Always wait for the setup: no setup – no trade. Agree. If your strategy doesn’t provide you a good risk/reward trade to make, then your job is to be patient until it does. Ironically, this often requires you to sit out some very good moves in the market and be inactive at the very same times… Read More »