Is forex trading profitable? Is day trading profitable? Are commonly asked questions by new traders but the answer can be yes or no depending on how someone trades. Yes, trading is profitable if you have a positive expectancy model where the average win is bigger than the average loss over a series of trades. Profitability is […]
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This is a guest post by PattensWizard on Twitter. “No one can predict the market consistently. It is all about odds, statistics, probabilities, and avoiding the risk of ruin.” – Henri Simoes I believe this popular quote from Henri Simoes sums up trading in the best possible way. In life, trading and everything else, if
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What traits separate the minority of profitable traders from the the majority of unprofitable traders in the markets? Here are the 12 key traits I have seen and studied over the past three decades in the financial markets that separate successful traders from the unsuccessful ones that don’t make it. From the start the traders
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First principles thinking inverts complex problems to look at each step in a process or system. It seeks to find errors as places for improvements by looking at the most basic principles that lead to success or failure. You must remove opinions, beliefs, assumptions, traditions, and predictions to see the essential core principles of a model
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Profitable trading is simply making more money on your winning trades than you lose on your unprofitable trades. Profitable trading is not about being perfect and making money on every trade. It is not about predicting the future, making a great call, or any one big trade, it is all about the math. Here is
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A good trader should improve with every trade. The focus for any trader should just be to make the next trade a good trade. Profitable trading comes from stringing together a lot of good trades in a row. A good trade is one that has a good risk/reward ratio on entry when you consider the
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Most new traders never make it through the learning curve and traders that are successful early on at making money only discover that they were lucky and did not have the skill they thought they did. Traders go through many stages in their development and they can’t skip a step, they must learn the lessons
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The profit factor for a trader or trading system is determined by taking the gross profit of winning trades and dividing it by the gross losses from the trades that lost money for a chosen sample size. This formula considers the cost of slippage, fees, and any commissions paid. The profit factor can be defined
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What is Positive Expectancy? The closest a trader can hope to come to a “Holy Grail” of profitable trading is a trading system with a positive expectancy. A trader’s focus should not be on predictions, stock picking, opinions, or being right all the time. The best focus is on creating a quantified system with an
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If you are losing money in the markets or having a large drawdown in capital it could be a good idea to go back and return to first principles. First principles are the core concepts or accepted foundation of beliefs that a theory, process, system, or methodology is based. Profitable trading comes from using the
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