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Trade To Win, Not To Lose!

  
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TradetowinWhen athletes are consumed by not losing rather than by winning, the game is over, often before it has even started. The same precept applies to trading. As crazy as it sounds, most traders aren’t making the money they could be — and the reason, I’d argue, is the fear of losing it. Traders are far too worried about giving money back. This paralyzing phobia can transform talented, elite professionals into disappointing underperformers.

How many times have you been up in a trade and started to think about the money? Your head tells you to bank it quickly and then play it safe. After all, you made your mark for the day, or even the week, so your job is complete. That’s not the mark of a trader; that’s the mark of an accountant.

 Trading is an occupation based on fleeting moments of opportunity. (more…)

Self-Discipline in Trading

  
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Having self-discipline is having the ability to follow through on your plans and goals.  Often times we get tugged in various directions and enticed by making choices that don’t help us along our path to our goals and fulfillment.

“The path of least resistance is what makes all rivers and some men crooked.”
                                                                                                                               – Napoleon Hill

Self-discipline is the ability to make the conscious choice (ultimately it becomes a habit) of doing the thing that will move you towards your goal – and sometimes it’s the hard or unnatural or unpopular thing to do.  It’s foregoing instant gratification for the longer term objective.  Typically, however, people operate on autopilot and this is dangerous when you have not yet developed the right ‘habits’ for success.

In the trading game, you must have self-discipline. You must look at the entire forest and not focus on one tree.  If you get too caught up in each and every trade, you will lose sight of the larger goal.

The key is to care a lot about your overall trading progress, but not care too much about any individual trade.

Your Identity also plays a huge role in this because if you see yourself as someone who lacks self-discipline, then all the will power in the world will not overpower this.  You are someone, in your mind, who lacks self-discipline.

So the key components to have self-discipline in Trading are: (more…)

Jim Rogers Video Interview – How I See The World Today

  
Analysis, Economy, Education, Video
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Very interesting video interview with Jim Rogers doing a question and answer session with Lew Rockwell and Ludwig von Mises Institute members in Alabama. The video is rather long but well worth your time. Here’s a chronological list of all the subjects Jim Rogers addressed:

  • Protecting yourself with sound currencies and hard assets / real assets
  • Learn from history
  • Rice, Silver, Gold, Farmland, Timberland, Bonds, Paper Money
  • Why he moved to Singapore —> Education + Learning Mandarin
  • Debtor nations vs. creditor nations
  • Conventional wisdom
  • The US going the same way as the UK when it was an Empire
  • Leaving the US and seeking opportunity elsewhere
  • Why children in the 21 st century must learn at least a second language
  • Giving up American citizenship and implications on paying taxes
  • Rare Earths and China
  • Austrian Economics
  • Brazil and its natural resources
  • European Union and the likelihood of EURO disintegration
  • Canada will do better than the US
  • Renminbi might replace the US Dollar as reserve currency
  • Ben Bernanke monetizing debt
  • Fort Knox and the Fed should be audited

Once the video starts playing change the settings to watch in HD quality. Enjoy!



Be Patient

  
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Be patient. If a trade is missed, wait for a correction to occur before putting the trade on.

Be patient. Once a trade is put on, allow it time to develop and give the most worthless piece of advice ever given. Taking small profits is the surest way to ultimate loss I can think of, for small profits are never allowedit time to create the profits you expected.
Be patient. The old adage that “you never go broke taking a profit” is maybe to develop into enormous profits. The real money in trading is made from the one, two or three large trades that develop each year. You must develop the ability to patiently stay with winning trades to allow them to develop into that sort of trade.
Be patient. Once a trade is put on, give it time to work; give it time to insulate itself from random noise; give it time for others to see the merit of what you saw earlier than they.
Be impatient. As always, small loses and quick losses are the best losses. It is not the loss of money that is important. Rather, it is the mental capital that is used up when you sit with a losing trade that is important. –

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