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Five qualities for Successful Traders

  
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  1. 1)Capacity for Prudent Risk-taking.The young successful trader is not afraid to go after markets aggressively when the opportunity presents itself.
  2. 2)Capacity for Rule Governance. The young successful trader has the self-control to follow rules in the heat of battle, such as rules of position sizing and risk management.
  3. 3)Capacity for Sustained Effort.The trader uses productive time to do research, preparation, work on himself, outside of market hours.
  4. 4)Capacity for Emotional Resilience. All young traders will lose money early in their development and experience multiple frustrations. The successful ones will not lose self-confidence and motivation in the face of loss and frustrations.

5)Capacity for Sound reasoning. The successful young trader exhibits an ability to synthesize data and generate market and trading scenarios.

Trading Should Be Effortless

  
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  • Money comes in bunches.

That one says it all. You can’t force trades. You can’t simply work harder in order to be ‘in sync’. Sometimes you are, sometimes you are not. You simply have to accept that as being part of the trading business. What you can do, is to closely monitor if your performance is in sync with the market’s performance. If the markets make new highs and your overall portfolio is going down something is wrong. You need to address that issue. Fast. The best way is to step aside and drastically reduce exposure and risk. That’s what I did.

  • Trading should be effortless.

A true piece of wisdom. In my experience when I trade well it is like shooting fish in a barrel. Almost everything works. I don’t need to be overly patient with positions. The money comes in very fast. That’s exactly how trading should be. The exact opposite was the case during the first 2 months of this year. So I did what I had to do. I recognized the situation for what it was and admitted my efforts were not leading my portfolio anywhere. It was like folding when you are dealt a bad hand in poker. So I folded. Now I am waiting for the next hand. If it is a bad one I fold again. If a series of trades start to really go my way I push it hard and increase exposure and trade aggressively. (more…)

Overcoming fear

  
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 I recently read a few simple quotes on overcoming fear that I wanted to share:

“I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.” — Erica Jong

“Your fears are not walls, but hurdles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it.” — Dan Millman

“The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear.” — Brian Tracy

Important Qualifications for a Successful Trader

  
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QUALIFICATION


I believe that one of the most important qualifications for a successful trader is “POISE”, which to me is defined as stability, a well balanced person with dignity of manner – as it relates to the stock market.A poised person is a person who can handle their hopes and their fears in a calm manner.The other qualification is “PATIENCE” to wait for the opportune time, when as many factors as possible are positioned in the traders favor.Poise and patience are the close friends of successful traders.The final qualification is “SILENT”. Keep your own silent counsel – keep your victories and your failures to yourself – learn from them both.Poise, patience and silence are attributes that must be cultivated.These virtues do not come automatically to the stock market trader.

Nicolas Darvas on stops: "no loss-free Nirvana"

  
Analysis, Education

I was just rereading Nicolas Darvas’ How I Made $2,000,000 in the Stock Market and came across this interesting summary of his trading method and risk management approach in the author’s intro. I’d like to share it with you.
Quoth Darvas:

“I built a fortune with serenity by avoiding premature selling yet making an exodus from most of my stocks with the use of a single tool: the trailing stop-loss. 
I have discovered no loss-free Nirvana. But I have been able to limit my losses to less than 10 percent wherever possible. My stop loss method had two effects. It got me out of the wrong stock and into the right one.”

Full passage in the image below:

Nicolas Darvas stops trading losses stocks

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Malaysia Islamic clerics forbid forex trading

  
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Malaysia Islamic clerics forbid forex trading

Malaysia’s highest Islamic body has issued an edict forbidding foreign exchange trading by Muslim individuals, saying such speculation violates Islamic law.

The National Fatwa Council ruled forex trading by money changers or between banks was allowable but trading by individuals “creates confusion” among the faithful, according to a report issued Wednesday by state news agency Bernama.

Council chairman Abdul Shukor Husin warned “there are many doubts about it (forex trading) and it involves individuals using the Internet, with uncertain outcomes,” Bernama reported.

“A study by the committee found that such trading involved currency speculation, which contradicts Islamic law,” he was quoted saying.

Forex and religion don’t have a great history. The only time Jesus uses physical force is when heexpels the money-changers from the temple. Matthew 21:12-13:

And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all of them who sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves,
And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.

Skipping over any doctrinal issues, trading foreign currency is a terrible idea for individual investors. It’s a zero-sum game and you most likely won’t win.

You’ll notice that it’s always around forex that trading outfits style their sales pitches in order to lure in customers. If you’re saving for your retirement, trust me, stay away from forex.

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