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[17 Feb 2012 | 21 Comments | 4,050 views]
Trading for a Living

How to make money trading stocks/Commodities
(a) Identify the reason for the trade
(b) A Stop Loss
(c) A profit target or trailing stop mechanism
(d) The point at which you accept that the trade is not working even if the stop did not hit.
(e) Number of shares / contracts that you will hold. Keep in mind that your loss on a single trade should not be more than x% of your capital (you decide the x%)
(f) maintain a trading journal in which you write every evening, without fail.
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[11 Nov 2011 | 12 Comments | 4,466 views]
Why Traders Lose Money?

Over the years, I have seen several people (including myself) lose fortunes while trading stocks, 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 of 80% traders going well verse with
Pareto principle
So what exactly is the reasons behind that the misery of traders losing money.
Trade without plan: Most of traders enter the market based on there intuition. They just …