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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.

– The winning traders have usually been winning at whatever field they are in for years.

-It is a happy circumstance that when nature gives us true burning desires, she also gives us the means to satisfy them. Those who want to win and lack skill can get someone with skill to help them.

– The “doing” part of trading is simple. You just pick up the phone and place orders. The “being” part is a bit more subtle. It’s like being an athlete. It’s commitment arid mission. To the committed, a world of support appears. All manner of unforeseen assistance materializes to support and propel the committed to meet grand destiny.

– In your recipe for success, don’t forget commitment – and a deep belief in the inevitability of your success.

20+20 Trading Wisdom From Ed Seykota

18-Jan-19 07:41 am

Ed Seykota wisdom:

“If I am bullish, I neither buy on a reaction, nor wait for strength; I am already in. I turn bullish at the instant my buy stop is hit, and stay bullish until my sell stop is hit. Being bullish and not being long is illogical.”
“Fundamentalists figure things out and anticipate change. Trend followers join the trend of the moment. Fundamentalists try to solve their feelings. Trend followers join their feelings and observe them evolve and dis-solve.”
“The feelings we accept and enjoy rarely interfere with trading.”
“Systems don’t need to be changed. The trick is for a trader to develop a system with which he is compatible”
“It can be very expensive to try to convince the markets you are right.”
“There are old traders and there are bold traders, but there are very few old, bold traders.”
“I would add that I consider myself and how I do things as a kind of system which, by definition, I always follow.”
“Systems trading is ultimately discretionary. The manager still has to decide how much risk to accept, which markets to play, and how aggressively to increase and decrease the trading base as a function of equity change.”

EGO-The Trader’s biggest enemy

18-Jan-19 02:15 am

The trader’s biggest enemy is their own EGO.

Ego: a person’s sense of self-esteem or self-importance.

1. The new traders with big egos always have but confidence in their trading ability before developing competence in trading. New traders that trade before educating themselves are ignorant of their own ignorance.

2. Ego driven traders think they are special and will beat the market, even without putting in the work. They feel this way even though there is no evidence from their past trading success.

3. Most stubbornness in traders arises from the egos refusal to change, to learn, or to accept they are wrong about something.

4. The ego will make you hold a trade that is going against you, in the hope that you can prove yourself right when it reverses.

5. The biggest cause of trading too big of a position size, is ignoring risk management in favor of confidence in an unknown outcome.

6. Arrogant traders will focus on being right about predictions more than developing a robust trading methodology.

7. Ego driven traders put being right above being profitable. Their goal is ego gratification, not profitable trading.

Successful traders trade a plan based on logic, reason, probabilities, historical prices, and risk management.

RISK in Trading -Anirudh Sethi

17-Jan-19 07:56 am

Image result for risk gif Life is full of risks, and risks are all around you as a trader. In a perfect world there would be no risks and any decision you make will turn out to be the best one. You can hope for win after win, and not even have to worry about the prospect of losing. Yet this is an unrealistic and impossible scenario because as we all know trading is all about risk. However, there is no need to be afraid of risk. We need to accept the fact that it is there, and rather than focusing on fear we need to know how to deal with it and manage it.

This is where risk management comes into play. As a trader you need to be disciplined. You need to know how to understand the way you are thinking. At the end of the day it is all about trading psychology. Trading is not solely about getting an understanding of the market, and the trading skills such as recognizing trading patterns and managing risks. It is also about training yourself to be self-assured without being too risky. It is about being cautious, but not wait too long to take an action. It is about blocking emotions and sentiments which could impair your judgments. The market is constantly changing and you are going to be constantly faced with challenges, and so risk is inevitable. However the risk taht you tae can be calculated.

Thus as a trader you will need to balance out your trading skills with your trading psychology so as to master the mental game of trading. Here are some general rules which can help you in risk management:

Emotions have no place in trading. You need to make well planned and well calculated decisions that are not affected by sentiments. Otherwise your decision making process is going to take longer, and in all probability, be skewed.
You need to accept that you are not perfect, and so there are going to be times when you succeed, and other times when you fail and lose money. Successes and failures will result in different, and extreme emotions, but these emotions need to be controlled so as to keep thinking straight.
In order to minimize risks, many traders are well aware that it is best to opt for diversification. Having an diversified portfolio will help to reduce your risks. Money should be distributed across different kinds of investments so that in case a certain trading decision goes wrong it will be less likely to affect the trader in a dramatic way as one would still have other investments at one’s disposal.
Gaining experience is what many traders believe in in order to succeed. Through experience you gain more insight and knowledge, as well as trading skills. However despite their importance, they are not going to be enough to back your progression as a trader. You need to couple this up with clear thinking.
You need to have the willingness to take risks. However the risks that you take can be calculated and appropriate. Trading is risky, but in time you will learn how to go about it so as to minimize risks and the results thereafter. For instance, you should only risk money that you can afford to lose. Otherwise, it is best not to trade at all in such cases.

Sun Tzu and Trading -Anirudh Sethi

12-Jan-19 09:53 pm

Image result for Sun Tzu and Trading The money market is a considered to be a wrangle amongst purchasers and vendors on the estimations of organizations. That is the pleasant clarification. To outline it in another light – the share trading system is a war amongst purchasers and vendors, who each need to take the others cash. Money markets are harsh, and in the event that you don’t approach it with the manner of a disturbed general, you will lose. In the share trading system, pleasant folks complete last. Sun Tzu’s, The Art of War serves to highlight numerous parts of trading since trading the market is much similar to fighting. Sun Tzu’s Art of War is an exemplary bit of work that is broadly perused and connected to many fields, because of its major nature that is exceptionally versatile to numerous parts of our lives. In this post, I separated parts of the work and connected to trading and in doing as such plan to acquaint the critical trading ideas with you. I have likewise assembled and classified them for simple comprehension.

War as Art and So as Trade

The first Art of War is an assemblage of lessons composed and instructed by Sun Tzu, a 6th century B.C. Chinese General/Philosopher. Its insight is immortal and has developed in prominence. It is, truth be told, required perusing at each military foundation on the planet and can be found in most corporate meeting rooms. In this adjustment of the ace’s work of art, super trader Dean Lundell applies Sun Tzu’s lessons to the specialty of contributing – from outlining an individual trading plan to timing market moves, to gathering information from a worldwide data organize. Each wonderfully composed spread opens with a section from Sun Tzu and is then translated and clarified for its vital pertinence to trading stocks, bonds, fates, and items. Guided by Sun Tzu’s old shrewdness, tenderfoot, and expert traders can utilize these great military methodologies to overcome the market! Understudies of the market are continually fighting the feelings of dread and avarice. The Art of War can enable you to cut a way between these two feelings and lead you to a mental place that will always enable you to put your best foot forward. In this arrangement, I will address different poor trading propensities by excerpting and deciphering different sections. While my understandings are not intended to be authoritative by any extent of the creative energy I will likely make them think. They say the round of golf is not played on the green. It’s played between your two ears. Trading fates, Forex, alternatives, or stocks are similarly. Your psychological distraction must be adequate. If not, disappointment is unavoidable. At last, I trust you observe the teaching to be a theorist and not only your standard speculator.

To Be Successful Trader-U Must Have These 5 Qualities

12-Jan-19 07:31 am

1) Capacity for Prudent Risk-Taking – Successful young traders are neither impulsive nor risk-averse. They are not afraid to go after markets aggressively when they perceive opportunity;
2) Capacity for Rule Governance – Successful young traders have the self-control needed to follow rules in the heat of battle, including rules of position sizing and risk management;
3) Capacity for Sustained Effort – Successful young traders can be identified by the productive time they spend on trading–research, preparation, work on themselves–outside of market hours;
4) Capacity for Emotional Resilience – All young traders will lose money early in their development and experience multiple frustrations. The successful ones will not be quick to lose self-confidence and motivation in the face of loss and frustration;
5) Capacity for Sound Reasoning – Successful young traders exhibit an ability to make sense of markets by synthesizing data and generating market and trading views. They display patience in collecting information and do not jump to conclusions based on superficial reasoning or limited data.
Finally, I would say that successful developing traders approach their work with a kind of humility. They don’t know it all and they don’t pretend to know it all. They absorb wisdom from mentors and markets, and they are quick to acknowledge when they’re wrong, so that they can get out of bad positions and learn from their experience. Show me a stubborn young trader with a defensive ego, and I’ll show you one who will fight his or her learning curve every step of the way, with predictably poor results.

The two best predictors of long-term trading success are

12-Jan-19 04:03 am

1) Originality – Traders who develop their own, unique approach to markets are more likely to succeed that traders that employ generic methods. My common impression when I meet a promising trader is, “Wow…why didn’t I think of that?” I quickly recognize that the trader has achieved an insight that others have not. That original thinking is more likely to generate distinctive results than run-of-the-mill thinking you could hear from any of a dozen market participants.
2) Flexibility – The worst traders I know are perma-bulls or perma-bears. They fit markets to their own thinking, rather than adapt to changing markets. The best traders work with a kind of anti-confirmation bias: they actively scan for information that does not fit with their views. That enables them to be flexible and adapt quickly to new market conditions.
If I were to place these two predictors of success under one umbrella, it would be “real-time creativity.” The successful trader sees and approaches markets in fresh ways–and continually refreshes those perceptions and methods.

The Way of The Turtle -17 Quotes

10-Jan-19 04:38 am

I like to collect quotes from books I read, and here you have some good quotes from the book:

…we were taught how to think in terms of the long run whan trading and we were given a system with an edge. (page 34)
The Turtle Way views losses in the same manner: they are the cost of doing business rather than an indication of a trading error or a bad decision. ……In fact, we were taught that periods of losses usually precede periods of good trading (page 37)
The secret of trading and of the Turtles’ success is that you can trade successfully by using ideas and concepts that are well known and have been around for years. But you have to follow those rules consistently (page 39)
Over the years I kept finding evidence that emotional and psychological strength are the most important ingredients in successful trading. This was my first exposure to that idea and the first time I had seen it in action (page 44).
Good trading is not about being right, it’s about trading right. If you want to be successful, you need to think of the long run and ignore the outcomes of individual trades (page 44).
….It takes a lot of time and study before one realizes just how simple trading is, but it takes many years of failure before most traders come to grips with how hard it can be to keep things simple and not lose sight of the basics (page 115).
Keep it simple. Simple time tested methods that are well executed will beat fancy complicated methods every time (page 131).
In a similar manner, simple rules make systems more robust because those rules work in a greater variety of circumstances (page 212).
People have a tendency to believe that complicated ideas are better than simple ones….Some of us thought that trading successfully couldn’t possibly be that simple; that there must be something else to it (page 224).
The primary goal of trading should be to stay in the game (page 116).
Luck or random effects play a large role in the performance of actual traders and actual funds even though the best traders do not like to admit that to their investors (page 159).
They often do not realize how markets go through phases and change over time, often returning to conditions that previously existed….In trading as in life, the young often fail to see the value in studying the history that occurred before they existed (page 193).
The reality is that you don’t know and can’t predict how a system will perform. The best you can do is use tools that provide a sense of the range of potential values and the factors that affect those values (page 196).
There are many successful discretionary traders, but there are far more unsuccessful ones. The biggest reason for this is that the ego is not your friend as a trader. The ego wants to be right, it wants to predict, and it wants to know secrets. The ego makes it much more difficult to trade well by avoiding the cognitive biases that hinder profits (page 224).
One of the ways in which good traders differ from those who are less successful is that they are not afraid to be different (page 235).
Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Risk is your friend (page 236).
Most successful traders use a mechanical trading system…..It makes it easier for a trader to trade consistently because there is a set of rules that specifically define exactly what should be done (page 245).

How to Develop Yourself as a Trader -Anirudh Sethi

10-Jan-19 02:04 am

There is a well-known axiom in business: “Neglect to plan and you intend to fall flat.” It might sound chatty, yet the individuals who are not kidding about being fruitful, including traders, ought to take after these eight words as though they were composed of stone. Ask any trader who profits on a reliable premise and they will let you know, “You have two options: you can either efficiently take after a composed arrangement, or come up short.” Mastering the specialty of Forex trading is not as basic as it appears. Each and every day the number of retail traders in the internet trading group is expanding at an exponential rate because of its outrageous level of benefit potential. The master traders at Saxo have secured their money related opportunity in life just by trading the live resources in the market. Be that as it may, keeping in mind the end goal to profit in the internet trading world, you have to know how to deal with your Forex trading account available. Not at all like the expert traders, the tenderfoot traders in the monetary business bounce into the web based trading world without thinking about the market subtle elements and in this way they lose an immense measure of money. In this article, we will examine how to wind up noticeably an expert trader in the Forex trading world. On the off chance that you have a composed trading or venture design, congrats! You are in the minority. While it is still no undeniable certainty of achievement, you have disposed of one noteworthy barricade. On the off chance that your arrangement utilizes imperfect procedures or needs planning, your prosperity won’t come promptly, however at any rate you are in a position to diagram and adjust your course. By archiving the procedure, you realize what works and how to abstain from rehashing expensive slip-ups.

Acknowledging Direct Resources for Profit

In order to develop yourself as an expert Forex trader, you have to consider trading as your business. On the off chance that you take a gander at the expert traders in the money market then you will see that each and every one of them is trading the live resources in their Forex trading account with an extraordinary level. Much the same as the expert specialist the master in the monetary business likewise has a strong trading plan to trade the live resources in the market. A large portion of the fledgling traders in the budgetary market consider trading as a get rich speedy plan and at last, loses money in the internet trading world. So on the off chance that you genuinely need to wind up plainly an expert trader at that point ensure that you build up a trader’s attitude and consider trading as your business. Trading is a business, so you need to regard it in that capacity on the off chance that you need to succeed. Perusing a few books, purchasing an outlining program, opening an investment fund and beginning to trade is not a strategy for success – it is a formula for calamity. Once a trader knows where the market can possibly respite or invert, they should then figure out which one it will be and act as needs are. An arrangement ought to be composed of stone while you are trading, yet subject to re-assessment once the market has shut. It changes with economic situations and modifies as the trader’s aptitude level moves forward. Every trader ought to compose their own arrangement, considering individual trading styles and objectives. Utilizing another person’s arrangement does not mirror your trading qualities. Such a large amount of the reason numerous traders fall flat is that they never seek after trading the correct route, as an execution teach. They don’t have an organized procedure of learning. They don’t have the instruments to legitimately replay, audit, and right there trading. They don’t have guides to good example great trading rehearses. They don’t learn methodologies with genuine edges and rather trade arbitrary examples on outlines or features existing apart from everything else. They don’t have enough funding to survive their expectations to absorb information. They don’t discover the trading markets and styles that best fit their specific qualities.