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10 Friends & 10 Enemies of Traders

  
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A Trader’s 10 Best Friends

  1. Studying the markets to understand what works. $Study
  2. You are comfortable with uncertainty. ????
  3. Being optimistic about winning in the long term. #Winning
  4. You manage risk very carefully on each trade. #RiskofRuin
  5. Thinking in probabilities and asymmetrical trades. #RiskReward
  6. Following your trading plan. #Discipline
  7. Accepting losses. #StopLoss
  8. Letting winners run. #TrendFollowing
  9. A plan on exactly how you will trade. #TradingPlan
  10. A robust trading system. #EDGE

A Trader’s 10 Worst Enemies

  1. Scared to enter a trade.#Fear
  2. Feeling the need to be right on every trade. #Pride
  3. Entering a trade too late or taking profits too soon. #Impatience (more…)

Be Flexible-5 Points to Win in Trading

  
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Flexibility for the trader  to move with price action is the key to successful trading. You can be rigid with your rules and risk management but you must be flexible when it comes to how the future plays out in price action for any market or stock. It is not those that predict the future that make a lot of money in trading but those that react to what is actually happening that are able to profit from price action.

  1. The ability to change your mind and reverse your trade in the other direction when proven wrong  is a powerful trait.
  2. The ability to admit you are wrong and take your stop loss can save your account.
  3. Put your ego aside and look at what is happening not what you believe should happen.
  4. Trade price action not your opinions.

  5. Always realize the markets are bigger than you are, they are always right.

2 -Risk Quotes For Traders

  
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 Risk ManagementYou are the biggest risk. Yes, that’s right you. All of your talk of discipline, preparation, planning, all of the hours of screentime, all of the chats with trader friends–all of that isn’t worth much if you are don’t follow through and do the right thing. If you aren’t disciplined every moment of every trading day, you are not a disciplined trader. The market environment is harder than you can imagine, and it will challenge you to the very limits of human endurance. Spend a lot of time thinking about the most critical part of your trading system: you, yourself.

 Plan for risks outside the market. Everyone, from the institutional scale to the individual trader, will have outside influences challenge their market activities. Institutionally, regulatory changes and developments in market structure can dramatically change the playing field. Your investors will make mistakes–becoming fearful and exuberant at exactly the wrong times. If you’re an individual investor, you will face outside financial stresses, personal issues, health issues, etc. All of these things will have an effect on your trading that is hard to capture in the numbers, but prudent planning will allow you to navigate these challenges.

6 Universal principles of successful traders

  
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1). Preparation

Author Brent Penfold is in the minority believing risk management is the #1 priority in trading. Brent believes that once you get your trading system and position size in place you must use the amount you will risk on each trade to determine your risk of ruin. The book shows exactly how to figure this out using Excel. His point is that if your risk of ruin is not zero then you will eventually blow out your account. Risking 1% to 2% of your capital in any one trade usually gives you a zero percent risk of ruin but it also depends on your systems win/loss ratio. But the point is to test any system with 30 trades first then determine your risk of ruin.

2). Enlightenment

Your most important goal is to lower your risk ruin to zero. In trading, the trader with the best ability to cut losses short wins. Simple trading strategies work the best based on traditional support and resistance while trading with the trend on either retracements of break outs. The 10% of winners in the market win by treading where others fear, buying on break outs when they first occur and going short when a new low is made, or buying into the abyss when a security finds support or resistance and reverses at the end of a monster trend.

3). Developing a trading style (more…)

5 Obstacles For Traders ,Just Cross Them & See Great Results

  
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  1. YOUR EGO: It wants you to PROVE you are right, it wants you to trade big, the ego wants you to be confident in your ability to trade before you are competent in your trading through the right education and experience.
  2. YOUR FEARS: Fear makes you afraid to take your entry when it is triggered and afraid to let a winner run thinking it will turn into a loser. Fear comes from a lack of faith and lack of faith arises from lack of the proper study before you start trading.
  3. YOUR GREED: It makes you trade too big and too much. Greed makes you want to risk too it all to get rich quick. Greed usually leads to get broke quick trades. Greed wants to take a short cut to success and you have to travel the full road to get to where you really want to go. You have to go through the work and experiences to get to success.
  4. NO TRADING PLAN: If you do not have a map it does not matter where you want to go you will end up somewhere else. Every trade should be planned when the market is closed and then executed reacting to prices when the market is open. With no plan long term results are virtually impossible.
  5. YOU: The weakest part of any trading system is the trader that is suppose to follow it. If you do not put in the work to develop a trading plan that fits you, develop and keep discipline, manage your risk, and stick to the plan regardless of how you feel then no trading system will work for you.

Winning Traders Must Have These Three Elements

  
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Trading System

  • They trade a robust system or method that wins more money over time than it loses.
  • Their system gives them a reward to risk ratio that is in their favor.
  • Their system or method is proven to work with a live trading record over many markets and trades or has  historical back testing.

Trading with Managed Risk

  • They manage the risk of ruin to avoid blowing up their account.
  • They risk no more than 1%-2% of total account equity on any one trade.
  • They manage risk through proper position size so they do not risk their account and ability to trade int eh future on any one trade.
  • They do not risk more than 6%-12% of their capital at one time across multiple trades.

The Mind of the Trader

  • They have faith in their system or method and continue to trade it even when they are losing so they capture the wins when they start again.
  • Almost all winning traders have come back from blowing up their accounts or losing a lot of money, they persevered while many others quit before they won. You will have to do the same if you do not understand the risk of ruin .
  • Most winning traders have learned to separate their trading from their self worth and ego. They treat it like a business not an ego trip.

Your focus in your trading career should be like a laser on finding the right system & method, learning why it is so important to manage risk then doing it, and having the right mind set to stay disciplined, passionate, and focused to get into the winning circle. With these three elements incorporated into a trading plan you will eventually win big. If you are missing any one of these three elements in your trading the odds are that you will be out of the game quicklyeither after a string of losses, loss of faith in yourself or system, or loss of belief that winning at trading is even possible for you.

THREE LEGS OF SUCCESSFUL TRADING

  
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If you ever read any book on trading you would notice that every author our there talking about three most important things of successful trading and investing are:

  1. Trading edge
  2. Money management
  3. Discipline or psychology

Depending on the book one is reading one of those three are emphasized more or less. If you read book on technical analysis author will say that having edge is most important, and even if you have PhD in psychology if you don’t have proper edge you will not be able to make money.

If you read book on psychology again author will tell you that you can have best trading system on the world if you are not able to take signals you will not be successful trader and that you must make system that will suit your personality.

Finally if you read book on money management, author will tell you that even if you have best system in the world and having best discipline in the world if you risk too much of your capital on each trade you will probably ruin your account and the game will be over.

That post made me think about is it really like that, can we represent those three characteristic as pyramid. Is one more important than the other?
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10 Tips For Managing Trader Stress

  
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Traders should never underestimate the role that stress plays in their trading. Many more will succeed or fail based on their ability to handle stress than will have their winning and losing determined by a robust method, mentor, or risk management. It is even possible for a trader to win consistently and still not be able to win in the long term due to the fact that they can not get comfortable being uncomfortable with capital on the line with an unknown outcome. Others will simply burn themselves out stressing excessively while losing and also stressing when they win scared they will give back their profits. If you are  going to be a successful trader you will need to manage the weakest link in any trading system: the trader. Stress management is the traders weakest spot. You have to be able to handle the heat of trading so you don’t melt.

 Here are the ten ways to manage your stress in trading:

1). When you get over excited calm down by concentrating on your breath.
2). Never trade so big that one trade will make or break your account, trading career, or lifestyle. 
3). Only trade systems and methods that you fully understand and have faith in for profitable in the long term.
4). Visualize yourself being a success as a trader.
5). Slow down your trading to a pace that does not rattle your nerves. 
6). Connect with like minded traders that understand your battles and goals.
7). Study and do so much homework about trading that you begin to have unshakable confidence in yourself. 
8). Stop doing what does not work in your trading and start doing more of what does work for you and makes you money.
9). Do not let others shake your confidence, do not accept any unsolicited advice from anyone, stick to your game plan. 
10). Accept your losses quickly when stops are hit to avoid emotional damage and stress from big losses.

Do everything you can to prevent the damaging effects of stress on your trading and life. (more…)

24 Reasons 95 Percent Traders Don’t Make Money

  
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  1. Lack of homework on what works.
  2. Allowing big losses in your trading account,
  3. Quitting when they learn trading isn’t easy money.
  4. Inability to trade volatile markets.
  5. Inability to emotionally  manage equity curves.
  6. Trading without a positive expectancy model.
  7. Never committing to one trading strategy.
  8. Changing trading systems.
  9. Trading based on opinions.
  10. Not managing the risk of ruin.
  11. Over thinking their trades.
  12. Reactive trading decisions based on internalizing emotions.
  13. Trading with leverage without understanding the risks.
  14. Trading on margin without understanding it.
  15. Over trading.
  16. Trading without a plan.
  17. Not understanding what it takes mentally to be a trader.
  18. Setting stops in obvious places.
  19. Selling short what looks expensive.
  20. A lack of discipline.
  21. Watching Blue Channels (Whole Day )
  22. Reading PINK PAPERS 
  23. Watching Fundamentals ,Results of Companies (All Manipulative )
  24. Looking and Listening GROWTH ,INFLATION ,IIP ,RBI  (All Manipulative in India )

Market-Neutral Trading-Thomas Carr (Book Review )

  
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Thomas Carr is the CEO of an advisory and trader training service, designer of a MetaStock add-on toolkit, and partner in an investment firm. Known online as Dr. Stoxx, he is the author of Trend Trading for a Living and Micro-Trend Trading for Daily Income. His latest work is Market-Neutral Trading: Combining Technical and Fundamental Analysis into 7 Long-Short Trading Systems (McGraw-Hill, 2014).
Carr is an excellent marketer which, as might be expected, is the downside of this book. Without the tools that he sells, the reader cannot implement all of the book’s strategies. He may not even gain the confidence to trade any of them since Carr admits that “blindly following a set of systems” doesn’t work. When real money was on the line, he traded “in a very detached, mechanical fashion” and lost a lot of money—both in his own account and in a small fund for clients. By contrast, he made a lot of virtual money for the subscribers of his newsletters. The difference (aside from the obvious real vs. paper money distinction) was that he added discretion when making calls for his newsletters. He applied “God-given skills of discretionary analysis, skills that [had] been honed by years of apprenticeship under some of the great masters of the game, in addition to a long slog of real-time, real-money trading experience.” (p. 131) How does a trader learn the discretion that is necessary to make trading systems profitable? “You need to find a mentor who already has it and sit by their side for a while.” (p. 134) Yes, Carr is also a mentor.
Now that you know that, without a further outlay of funds to Carr, you won’t be able to trade all of the systems described in this book and that, even if you can trade them all, you will still lose money if you don’t overlay them with a large dose of discretion (gained only by spending still more money), what does this book have to offer?  (more…)

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