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16 +1 Differences Between Good Trades & Bad Trades

  
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Good Trades are made by managing the mind, ego, and emotions.

1. A good trade is taken with complete confidence and follows your trading method; a bad trade is taken on an opinion. 
2. A good trade is taken with a disciplined entry and position size; a bad trade is taken to win back losses the market owes you.
3. A good trade is taken when your entry parameters line up; a bad trade is taken out of fear of missing a move. 
4. A good trade is taken to be profitable in the context of your trading plan; a bad trade is taken out of greed to make a lot of money quickly. 
5. A good trade is taken according to your trading plan; a bad trade is taken to inflate the ego.
6. A good trade is taken without regret or internal conflict; a bad trade is taken when a trader is double-minded.

Good trades are just one trade inside a robust methodology that gives the traders an advantage int eh long term.

7. A good trade is based on your trading plan; a bad trade is based on emotions and beliefs. 
8. A good trade is based on your own personal edge; a bad trade is based on your opinion. 
9. A good trade is made using your own timeframe; a bad trade changes timeframe due to a loss. 
10. A good trade is made in reaction to current price reality; a bad trade is made based on personal judgment. 
11. A good trade is made after identifying and trading with the trend; a bad trade fights the trend. 
12. A good trade is made using the trading vehicles you are an expert in; a bad trade is when you trade unfamiliar markets. (more…)

9 things know yourself in order to obtain success in trading

  
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  • An aspiring trader has to understand what her/his hook is and construct her/his style of negotiation around this hook. Ask yourself some questions and determine what about the markets attracts you to it.
  • Do you like the adrenaline and the emotion of the competition? Or do you prefer a more controlled form of making decisions?
  • Are you more academic and inclined to perform investigations of the market? Or do you feel more comfortable trusting your instincts and intuition?
  • Are you set by defined rules and prefer to use a calculator? Or are you more qualitative in making your decisions?
  • Are you interested in international matters?
  • Are you interested in the ins and outs of individual companies? Or are you interested in economic theory?
  • What is it that you want from trading, to be the next George Soros? Do you want the liberty of working from home? Do want an additional source of income and profit?
  • Responding to these questions will help you easily in defining what type of trader you will become.
  • To determine what motivates you in the markets. But this is just the beginning. Once you know what motivates you, you can begin to determine the type of markets in which you should operate, the trading profile that you should adopt, and the additional preparation so that your trading will go further than just the basics. This is the best way to become a successful trader, the comprehension of the markets, the strategy, and the profile that best adjusts for you, by this manner you will maximize your profitability.

Overconfidence & Greed

  
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What most traders often don’t realize until it is too late is how quickly one can lose a lot of money in a single trade often with disastrous consequences.  More often than not this painful experience comes from poor risk management following a period of successful trading. It is natural of course. We are pattern seeking mammals and when something starts working for us we get confident in our abilities and quickly forget we know very little what the market or a given stock may do at any given moment. In short: We easily become overconfident.

It is after a period of successful trading that traders tend to loosen up on good intentioned rules of discipline. They start thinking in term of dollar signs as opposed to the trade discipline. In short they think they can fly. “Look how much money I would have made if I had traded x % of my portfolio”. Stop yourself right there. While it is tempting to play mind games like this no good will come of it. Why? Because you just stepped overtly into the realm of one of the greatest sins of trading:

Once you get greedy you will start abandoning necessary discipline. Nobody, I repeat nobody, no matter how smart they think they are has a fail proof system or process or secret trading technique that guarantees 100% success. I surely don’t. Neither does Goldman Sachs or anybody else. While there may be some HFT firms out there that are trying to algo their way to a perfect system I have news for you: You are not an HFT or an algo. You are an individual trader and as good as you may be: You will have losing trades, things will go against you and oddly enough this will happen when you are at your most vulnerable: When you are overconfident, greedy and overexposed. Something curious tends to happen though when the losing trade occurs:

Bitter Truth :Why Traders Lose Money in Market

  
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  1. Traders miss a trade setup, then take it late in the move. Chasing a trade is rarely a good decision. Buy right or sit tight.
  2. Traders buy a dip before it really reaches a good risk/reward setup.
  3. Traders buy a dip before there is any sign of a reversal.
  4. Traders wait for the perfect moment and end up with no setups.
  5. Traders hold onto opinions after price action has proven them wrong.
  6. Traders are stopped out of ordinary price action because their stop losses are too close, and their trades aren’t given enough room to breathe.
  7. Traders perpetually short uptrends and buy downtrends, missing the easy money and creating losses.
  8. Those that spend more time trading than studying will have their money taken by traders devoted to learning.
  9. Caring more about personal opinions than price action is the best way to donate money to the market.
  10. Holding onto a losing trade because you don’t want to take the initial loss, is a great way to turn a small loss into a big one.

Crash of the Titans

  
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For many, many years, Merrill Lynch had good reason to be “Bullish on America.”

With more than 15,000 brokers and $2.2 trillion in client assets Merrill Lynch was the world’s largest brokerage. It clawed its way to the top and revolutionized the stock market by bringing Wall Street to Main Street.

But in September 2008 – at the height of the financial crisis, it ceased to exist as a separate entity when it was acquired by Bank of America

The world, the company, the Street was in shock.

How could this American institution collapse almost overnight?

In his meticulously researched new book, Crash of the Titans: Greed, Hubris, The Fall of Merrill Lynch and the Near-Collapse of Bank of America, Greg Farrell reveals it all in never before reported detail.

In this guest author blog Farrell shares how his book came to be and if you continue on, you can read an excerpt from Crash of the Titans.

10 Bad Habits of Trader

  
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  1. They  trade too much. The edge that small traders have over institutions, is that they can pick trades carefully and only trade the best trends and entries. The less they trade, the more money they make, because being picky gives traders an edge.
  2. Unprofitable traders tend to be trend fighters, always wanting to try to call tops and bottoms. They eventually will be right, but their account will likely be too small by then to really profit from the reversal. Money is made by going with the flow of the river, not paddling upstream against it.
  3. Taking small profits quickly and letting losing trades run in the hopes of a bounce back, is a sure path to failure. Profitable traders understand their risk/reward ratio; big wins and small losses. Being quick to take profits while allowing losses to grow, is a sure way to blow up your trading account.
  4. Wanting to be right more than wanting to make money will be a very expensive lesson. A trader who doesn’t  want to take losses will most certainly balk at reversing his position because it signifies personal failure. A profitable trader is not afraid to get on the right side of the market to start making money.
  5. Unprofitable traders trade too big, and risk too much to make too little. The biggest key to profitability is to avoid big losses. Your wins can be as big as you like, but the losses must be limited.
  6. Unprofitable traders watch BLUE CHANNELS for trading ideas.
  7. Unprofitable traders want stock picks, while profitable traders want to develop trading plans and systems.
  8. Unprofitable traders think trading is about being right. Profitable traders know that profitability is about admitting you are wrong quickly, and being right as long as possible.
  9. Unprofitable traders don’t do their homework because they think there is a quick and easy route to trading success.
  10. Unprofitable traders #1 question is how much they can make if they are right, while the profitable traders #1 concern is how much they can lose if wrong.

Sun Tzu and Trading -Anirudh Sethi

  
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Image result for Sun Tzu and TradingThe 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.

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Market Truisms and Axioms

  
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Commandment #1: “Thou Shall Not Trade Against the Trend.”

• Portfolios heavy with underperforming stocks rarely outperform the stock market!

• There is nothing new on Wall Street. There can’t be because speculation is as old as the hills. Whatever happens in the stock market today has happened before and will happen again, mostly due to human nature.

• Sell when you can, not when you have to.

• Bulls make money, bears make money, and “pigs” get slaughtered.

• We can’t control the stock market. The very best we can do is to try to understand what the stock market is trying to tell us.

• Understanding mass psychology is just as important as understanding fundamentals and economics.

• Learn to take losses quickly, don’t expect to be right all the time, and learn from your mistakes.

• Don’t think you can consistently buy at the bottom or sell at the top. This can rarely be consistently done.

• When trading, remain objective. Don’t have a preconceived idea or prejudice. Said another way, “the great names in Trading all have the same trait: An ability to shift on a dime when the shifting time comes.”

• Any dead fish can go with the flow. Yet, it takes a strong fish to swim against the flow. In other words, what seems “hard” at the time is usually, over time, right.

• Even the best looking chart can fall apart for no apparent reason. Thus, never fall in love with a position but instead remain vigilant in managing risk and expectations. Use volume as a confirming guidepost.

• When trading, if a stock doesn’t perform as expected within a short time period, either close it out or tighten your stop-loss point.

• As long as a stock is acting right and the market is “in-gear,” don’t be in a hurry to take a profit on the whole positions. Scale out instead.

• Never let a profitable trade turn into a loss, and never let an initial trading position turn into a long-term one because it is at a loss.

• Don’t buy a stock simply because it has had a big decline from its high and is now a “better value;” wait for the market to recognize “value” first. (more…)

5 Quotes from Market Wizard Martin Taylor

  
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As I made money, I got more and more confident, and I increased the position each time. Ultimately, I put on a position where I was completely wrong. I just held it, held it, and sold it when my account was back down to 2,000. Over a five-day period, I lost everything that I had made over the prior six months. – Martin Taylor

This was Taylor’s description of how he got started in his trading. It is a telling example that almost any trader can relate to. Learning how to take small losses is extremely important to all traders, regardless of their approach. For Taylor, it took a tremendously big loss to get the point across.

The conclusions I drew from losing all my profits were: First, I didn’t know what I was doing, and second, I really wanted to know what I should be doing. I also realized that trying to make money out of big macro moves was a mug’s game. – Martin Taylor

That huge loss really shook Taylor’s confidence. He realized that there was quite a bit that he still needed to learn.

His intellect, however, often got in the way of his investing. If he was bullish on a stock for 10 reasons, he could always think of nine reasons to be bearish, which would cloud his mind to such a degree that he would end up not buying it. – Martin Taylor

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Consider Factors That Will Affect Market Participants’ Perceptions Even if You Don’t Believe in It

  
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  • I have always been a discretionary trader with my analysis based on fundamentals…. Whatever kind of a trader you are, you have to be aware of perceptions in the market place, that can influence the participants’ behavior. If a lot of people are charting and they think that a certain level is a key level for whatever reason – lunar, astrological, who the hell knows – then you have to be aware of it. Because it is going to cause a certain number of market participants to react and you have to be aware of it. You have to understand how that is going to affect your position.
  • You have to be aware of all these technical techniques, such as momentum, because a lot of market participants use them and so they can affect the market.
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