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19+1 Habits Of Wealthy Traders

  
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1. Wealthy traders are patient with winning trades and enormously impatient with losing trades. Yes, I often fell prone to that. I tend to hope too much when things are going bad. I have time stops, but tend to close positions/strategies too early when having a nice gain. Too often I hold on to exit time when losing. I’m constantly working on that bad habit.

2. Wealthy traders realise that making money is more important than being right. Yes, but always hard to realise a loss.

3. Wealthy traders view technical analysis as a picture of where traders are lining up to buy and sell.Disagree, I have never found any evidence that this actually is true.

4. Before they eneter every trade they know where they will exit for either a profit or loss. Disagree, I use time stops. I have never in my testing found any value whatsoever in using targets or stop-loss.

5. They approach trade number 5 with the same conviction as the previous four losing trades. Yes, agree, but noe easy as confidence drops the more losers I have.

6. Wealthy traders use “naked” charts. Yes, I use no traditional indicators. I only use price action.

7. Wealthy traders are comfortable making decisions with incomplete information. Yes, very true. I try to make my trading as simple as possible. I avoid reading news.The only newspaper I read is The Economist. Except from that I only read football/soccer news and investment blogs on the internet. (more…)

What Winners Do

  
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“A losing trader can do little to transform himself into a winning trader. A losing trader is not going to want to transform himself. That’s the kind of thing winning traders do.”

– Ed Seykota

It may sound trivial, or overly simple. And yet it is so important. Being a winner starts with a firm commitment to winning.

And that commitment starts with a relentless determination to do what it takes to win — day in and day out, leaving no stone unturned.

Are you a committed winner? What steps are you taking to make 2014 your biggest and best year ever?

Right Trading Mindset

  
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  1. Back test, study charts, and only trade proven strategies: No trading should begin until you know that your system is a historically profitable one through multiple trading environments. There are many ways to do this and the depth of study into your specific trading system is up to you. But if you do not know how what you are currently doing performed historically then you need to stop until you do understand.

  2. Small losses: Keeping your losses small so you can keep your will and desire to trade strong. Nothing breaks a new traders mindset faster than big, painful losses of capital that are very hard to come back from.
  3. Build confidence through having winning trades: A lot of the great traders we get to see on social media have  built up themselves through many years of learning from failure and then hitting their stride with winning months and winning years. Even if your wins are small, wins will help you build the mindset that you can do this and be successful as a trader. Build yourself up through consistent disciplined trading and winning streaks.
  4. Trade with the right principles: Trading with the right core trading principles like going with the trend in your time frame, never losing more than 1% of your trading capital on any one trade, and follow your trading plan 100% can go a long way to solidifying your peace of mind as trader knowing you will not do anything that will really hurt yourself in the markets.

  5. Match your beliefs to your trading methodology: We can only effect trade a system that matched our strong beliefs about the markets. If you believe in the nature of trends you have to find the markets that trend and trade them. If you are convinced that market always revert to the mean then a robust mean reversion is what you can comfortably trade. Swing trading for traders that love trading ranges, and day trading for those that want action and no overnight risk. The question is who are you as a trader and what trading style matches your personality and risk tolerance.

18+1 Trading Rules for Traders

  
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  1. NEVER, EVER, EVER ADD TO A LOSING POSITION: EVER!: Adding to a losing position eventually leads to ruin, remembering Enron, Long Term Capital Management, Nick Leeson and myriad others.
  2. TRADE LIKE A MERCENARY SOLDIER: As traders/investors we are to fight on the winning side of the trade, not on the side of the trade we may believe to be economically correct. We are pragmatists first, foremost and always.
  3. MENTAL CAPITAL TRUMPS REAL CAPITAL: Capital comes in two forms… mental and real… and defending losing positions diminishes one’s finite and measurable real capital and one’s infinite and immeasurable mental capital accordingly and alway.
  4. WE ARE NOT IN THE BUSINESS OF BUYING LOW AND SELLING HIGH: We are in the business of buying high and selling higher, or of selling low and buying lower. Strength begets strength; weakness more weakness.
  5. IN BULL MARKETS ONE MUST TRY ALWAYS TO BE LONG OR NEUTRAL: The corollary, obviously, is that in bear markets one must try always to be short or neutral. There are exceptions, but they are very, very rare.
  6. “MARKETS CAN REMAIN ILLOGICAL FAR LONGER THAN YOU OR I CAN REMAIN SOLVENT:” So said Lord Keynes many years ago and he was… and is… right, for illogic does often reign, despite what the academics would have us believe.
  7. BUY THAT WHICH SHOWS THE GREATEST STRENGTH; SELL THAT WHICH SHOWS THE GREATEST WEAKNESS: Metaphorically, the wettest paper sacks break most easily and the strongest winds carry ships the farthest,fastest.
  8. THINK LIKE A FUNDAMENTALIST; TRADE LIKE A TECHNICIAN:Be bullish… or bearish… only when the technicals and the fundamentals, as you understand them, run in tandem.
  9. TRADING RUNS IN CYCLES; SOME GOOD, MOST BAD: In the “Good Times” even one’s errors are profitable; in the inevitable “Bad Times” even the most well researched trade shall goes awry. This is the nature of trading; accept it and move on. (more…)

Day Traders : Read These Rules EveryDay-Spend 10 Minutes

  
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  1. There is no single true path. 
  2. The universal trait is discipline.
  3. Trade your personality.
  4. Failure and perseverance are part of every successful trader’s life.
  5. Great traders are flexible.
  6. It takes time to become a successful trader.
  7. Keep a record of your market observations.
  8. Develop a trading philosophy.
  9. What is your edge?  Big picture tech, change, on the cusp, understand big trend before others, shifts.
  10. Confidence is important, and you build it from hard work.
  11. Hard work.
  12. Obsessiveness.
  13. Market wizards are innovators, not followers.
  14. To be a winner you have to be willing to take a loss!
  15. Risk control.  Stop-loss, or reducing position size, limit initial position size, short selling.
  16. You can’t be afraid of risk
  17. Some limit downside by focusing on undervalued stocks. (but still can drop.)
  18. Value alone is not enough.  Need catalysts.
  19. The importance of catalysts.
  20. Focus not only on when to get in, but when to get out

Emotions and Mindset

  
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Emotional stability and discipline is the foundation upon which a trader has to build his trading methodology. Without the ability to control emotions and the impulsive trading decisions emotions cause, the best trading system and the best thought-out risk management approach are useless.

I truly feel that I could give away all my secrets and it wouldn’t make any difference. Most people can’t control their emotions or follow a system.  – Linda Raschke
Markets are never wrong – opinions often are. – Jesse Livermore
I don’t get caught up in the moment. – Ray Dalio
If you argue with the market, you will lose. – Larry Hite
The psychological factor for investing has 5 areas. These include a well-rounded personal life, a positive attitude, the motivation to make money, lack of conflict [such as psychological hang ups about success], and responsibility for results.  -Dr. Van K. Tharp
It is hard enough to know what the market is going to do; if you don’t know what you are going to do, the game is lost. – Alexander Elder 

These quote highlight the fact that, before you get into the nitty-gritty of your trading system and try to tweak your stop loss or take profit placement, you have to work on your discipline. It is not a stop loss order that should have been placed 5 points higher or lower that makes the difference between a consistently losing and a profitable trader, but the degree to how a trader can avoid emotionally caused trading mistakes.

Trader’s Emotions

  
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The hardest thing about trading is not the math, the method, or the stock picking. It is dealing with the emotions that arise with trading itself. From the stress of actually entering a trade, to the fear of losing the paper profits that you are holding in a winning trade, how you deal with those emotions will determine your success more than any one thing.

To manage your emotions first of all you must trade a system and method you truly believe will be a winner in the long term.

You must understand that every trade is not a winner and not blame yourself for equity draw downs if you are trading with discipline.

Do not bet your entire account on any one trade, in fact risking only 1% of your total capital on any one trade is the best thing you can do for your stress levels and risk of ruin odds.

With that in place here are some examples of emotional equations to better understand why you feel certain emotions strongly in your trading:

Despair = Losing Money – Trading Better

Do not despair look at your losses as part of doing business and as paying tuition fees to the markets.

Disappointment = Expectations – Reality (more…)

10-Trading Method Quotes For Traders

  
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1.    “Trade What’s Happening…Not What You Think Is Gonna Happen.” – Doug Gregory
2.    Go long strength; sell weakness short in your time frame.
3.    Find your edge over other traders.
4.    Your trading system must be built on quantifiable facts not opinions.
5.    Trade the chart not the news.
6.    A robust trading system must either be designed to have a large winning percentage of trades or big wins and small losses.
7.    Only take trades that have a skewed risk reward in your favor.
8.    The answer to the question, “What’s the trend?” is the question, “What’s your timeframe?” – Richard Weissman. Trade primarily in the direction that a market is trending in on your time frame until the end when it bends.
9.    Only take real entries that have an edge, avoid being caught up in the meaningless noise.
10.    Place your stop losses outside the range of noise so you are only stopped out when you are likely wrong.

Traders Should Control These 14 Emotions

  
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14-POINTS
 

Anger- Revenge trading

Fear- Inability to take an entry or hold a winner in a trend.

Disgust- Can lead to loss of a traders confidence.

Happiness- Surprisingly can lead to trading too big and taking on too many positions.

Sadness- Can lead to having difficulty taking the next trade entry or cutting a loss.

Surprise- Can many times lead to making decisions based on emotions and abandoning a trading plan. (more…)

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