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Traders’ Discipline

  
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Top daytraders have the discipline to follow their daytrading system rigorously, because they know that only the trades that are signaled by their system have a greater rate of success. Matching a method of trading with your personality is the only way you will ever feel comfortable in the markets. Some websites have sought to profit from day traders by offering them hot tips and stock picks for a fee.

Day trading is an investment tactic with a relatively short investment. You need to position yourself so that you can endure long strings of losses, and maintain your day trading system.

Trading successfully is by no means a simple matter. A day trader should treat their capital as 100% risk capital and should not have to unduly worry that the whole amount of this capital may be lost very quickly. Good day traders do not rush into trades.

Day trading is just a numbers game. Be aware that day trading does not offer the protection of an advisor who can tell you whether a particular investment is suitable to your financial goals. Day trading is like running any other kind of business. It requires planning and expertize.

Limiting your losses when day trading is by far more important than making big profits. Day trading is an inherently variable business. For the sophisticated investor day trading may be safe since such investors know what they are doing and are willing to absorb the risk of losing money. Online trading is quick and easy, but making money from day trading and online investing takes time.

Over Trader Anonymous : Here's A Great Tip

  
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Over trading is the single most damaging thing to an account. the commissions alone will eventually slowly eat away at capital and that’s not even taking into consideration the mental and emotional drain you will go thru. Your soul goes into a dark place when you over trade and get poor results. Sometimes it made me even angry and i used to lash out at others.It took me years to figure out that trading more ironically meant more losses, (more…)

Trading and Behaviour

  
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3monkey-GandhiGandhi said a person cannot be different from himself in different areas of his life. He meant a person really cannot be someone at work and a entirely different person at home, with his friends, etc. The personality is a whole –- you can’t have a mask for different occasions. What you do in private life echoes in your business life, and vice-versa. What you do in the different areas of your life (private, professional, friendship, religion, spirituality, fun) echoes in every other part.

If you are a fighter in your work, one cannot expect you to be a daisy flower at home -– you will treat your family with the same authority and discipline. If you are kind, you will be kind whether at home or at office. One cannot really perform different roles separately. The person is an unity.

That means if you are lazy, undisciplined, late, in your behavior, it will reflect in your trading. Have you ever thought your trading problems may not be trading related? If you find yourself… (more…)

The Ten Cardinal Rules-Dr. Ari Kiev

  
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Ten Cardinal RulesThe Ten Cardinal Rules

  1. Learn to function in a tense, unstructured, and unpredictable environment.
  2. Be an independent thinker versus a conventional thinker.
  3. Work out a way to handle your emotions and maintain objectivity.
  4. Don’t rely on hope and fear in the conventional sense.
  5. Work continuously to improve yourself, giving importance to self-examination and recognizing that your personality and way of responding to events are a critical part of the game. This requires continuous coaching.
  6. Modify your normal responses to certain events.
  7. Be willing to face problems, understand them, and recognize that they are in some way related to your behavior.
  8. Know when problems can be resolved and then apply methods to solve them. That may mean giving up some control in order to gain a different control. It may mean changes in your personality, learning self-reliance, or giving up independence and ego to become part of a trading team.
  9. Understand the larger framework in which trading occurs—how the complexity of the marketplace and your personality both must be taken into account in order to develop the mastery of trading.
  10. Develop the right mind-set for trading—a willingness to commit to the kinds of changes in personal habits and beliefs that will drastically alter your life. To do this requires a willingness to surrender to the forces of the game. In order to be able to play at a maximum level, you have to let go of your ego and your need to have things your way.

Trading Wisdom

  
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Successful traders:
1) are very solid with what he called the “basics” (tape reading, execution, preparation for the trading day),
2) have discovered the trades that fit your personality and became excellent at those and
3) realize that successful trading is about pulling a small bucket of profit water out of the market well multiple times (in other words they are not greedy).

4) a passion for trading,
5) the willingness to admit you are wrong in your bias and to change your bias or terminate a losing trade and
6) to work really hard to become better each day.

7) an ability to recognize what trades truly work for you and to STICK with them and
8) calmness in the midst of market volatility.

Unglamorous as it may sound, it looks like the clear winner is hard work and learning the basics. Should this be that big of a surprise? Wasn’t it Thomas Edison who said ” genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration”? But it is interesting to note that two of the three put a very high premium on recognizing your trading strengths and focusing on those types of trades primarily.

9 Steps for Traders

  
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1- When you see a trade setup you like, pull the trigger without hesitation

It looks so simple but it isn’t! If your mind is not 100% ready to take the trades when they present themselves to you, you’ll miss them, you’ll be just watching and will let them go without any apparent reason why, and then when you realize what you just did, your reaction is to get angry! Just to make you jump into an unplanned trade and lose… Prepare in advance, market is like playing chess, you have to look ahead for the next move.

2 – Always use STOPs

In case you don’t like to use physical stops, make sure you’ll be able to stop in case it breaks the limits you’ve set for that trade

 

3 – Anything can happen

Try to start the morning with a free state of mind so that you’ll be able “to listen” to the market.

4 – Always lower your trade size when you’re losing

If you make two losing trades in a row, lower trade size until you get in tune with the market again.

5 – Never turn a winning trade into a loser

That’s the reason why I like to take small portions of profit when market makes it available to me, I hate to see a winner turn into a loser, manage your trades well.

6 – Buy or develop a system and stick to it, don’t change it from day to day

Find a trading system that fits your personality and once you have it, if it gives you an edge, stick to it, don’t change it because it didn’t work on one or two days, otherwise you’ll keep changing systems forever and that means: losing money.

7 – Get out of losers

One of the most known market adages is: “Cut your losses and let your profits run.” Much easier said than done, but it’s very important that you do it, usually it’s much easier to do exactly the opposite… make sure you bear that in mind.

8 – Don’t worry about news

This one I like very much, the only thing news will do is to accelerate the targets, nothing else, most of the time, I completely trash the news and just follow what I see on my map.

9 – Monitor your progress, create your own trading journal

It is very important that you have a trading journal to track your success, so that you’ll be able to stop what you’re doing wrong and keep your strong strategies. I’ll talk about this in detail on my next post.

Hope this helps, happy trading!

Technically Yours

ASR TEAM


The beginning of real success as a trader starts with knowing yourself.

  
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“Know yourself. – You can’t improve on something you don’t understand”.
Vince Lombardi Leadership Rule#1
 
One common trait amongst nearly all successful traders is that they have a very high understanding of who they are and how they operate. As an example, leading traders realise that they are not in control of the market; they tend to view the market almost as a force of nature without a personality, and with no agendas, the only thing they can do is control their own actions, activities and emotions. In other words they understand the way they work, what drives them and their performance, how their mind operates, and their emotions. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but nonetheless they have an understanding of how it all works.  
 
As an analogy considers a competitive yachtsman, he has to take account of the conditions of the sea and the winds; however, it is his own actions and decisions that will deem how successful he is. He can not blame the sea or the wind for failure, he has to put all his efforts in to his sailing, making correct decisions and performing the correct actions. (more…)

Emotional Intelligence

  
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Dictionary meaning of emotional :actuated, effected, or determined by emotion rather than reason
Dictionary meaning of intelligence : the faculty of understanding

If you are a trader already and have money in the stock market then you know how you react or respond when your trades don’t happen the way you want them to. It is just a matter of learning from your trades and not being attached to them. It is a good idea to have some money to donate so that when the market hasn’t gone your way, you know that the loss is not really a big deal and that you can make it back. (more…)

10 Attributes Exceptional Traders possess

  
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  1. A persistent unquenchable motivation to compete and achieve personal stock market mastery
  2. A personally developed hands-on strategy in writing that fits your personality.
  3. The ability to be brutally honest and objective about your beliefs and weaknesses.
  4. An inner resiliency to weather all market storms with little emotional scar tissue.
  5. Well-defined risk management rules and an ability to accept responsibility for losses.
  6. Unassailable confidence in your system and yourself.
  7. Discipline to follow your methodology and act decisively.
  8. A strong ethic for working hard but also working smart.
  9. Patience and an ability to wait for high probability trades to materialize.
  10. A willingness to embrace change, to modify your thinking, to rewrite your methodology and transform yourself.

Know Yourself & Educate Yourself

  
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Know yourself– Understand what style fits your personality.  Can you hold a position for a few days or only a few hours?  Are you okay with larger draw downs or can you only take small ones? Are you more comfortable trading pullbacks or breakouts? Most importantly, don’t try to use a style that doesn’t “fit” your personality.

Educate yourself – But don’t over educate yourself or fall into the trap of reading to many biographical trading books.  They may be entertaining, but you will learn little about the current state of trading.  Stick to my  ”Holy Trinity” of books “How To Make Money In Stocks” by O’Neil, “The Disciplined Trader” by Mark Douglas, and “The StockTwits Edge” by Howard Lindzon.  The rest you can learn from online trading communities and blogs.

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