Chat with Traders Interview: Dr. Steenbarger
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Trading Psychology
Good Traders are Flexible Traders
Flexibility for the trader to move with price action is the key to successful trading. Stubbornness is very expensive in the markets when you are on the wrong side of a trend. You can be rigid with your rules and risk management but you must be flexible when it comes to how the future plays out
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10 Things a Trader has to Beat
To be a profitable trader you must overcome these ten things: You must beat the market benchmark you are competing against or you might was well just buy and hold that index. You must beat your emotions by following a trading plan. You must beat your ego by taking losses early when you are proven
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Lessons From A Proprietary Trading Firm
3 Lessons I Got From A Proprietary Trading Firm Founder & Trader This is a guest post from Etienne Crete @DesireToTrade. For years, I have been passionate about trading. It is a discipline that is generally unknown by a lot of people and seen as mysterious by many. Nevertheless, I gave it a try three years
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10 Things for Traders to Quit
“Winners do quit all the time, they just quit the right stuff at the right time.” – Seth Godin Quitting is not always the wrong thing to do. There is a time when you have to decide what you want and go get it, there are times to stop if you hit a dead end
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10 Trading Paradoxes
In over 25 years of learning what works and what doesn’t in the stock market I believe there are many paradoxes. Most of trading is counter intuitive and new traders usually enter the market looking for predictions, sure things, hot tips, and to know what to buy. In reality it is following price action as
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Can Your Gut Give You Trading Signals?
Intuition In Trading And Investing: Can You Trust It? This is a Guest Post by Alex @MacroOps which was originally posted HERE. Do you ever get that feeling that a certain trade will be huge? That you should size up on it and go for the jugular? You can’t exactly describe why this trade is
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Lazy Trader, Broke Trader
This is a Guest Post by Dante Vincent you can find him on Twitter @DGTrading101. His website is dgtrading101.blogspot.com. Routine & Extraneous Influence – How Important are they to your Trading? Routine. This is one of the most important tools in your trading arsenal and you don’t even know it. What you do day in and day
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Hindsight is a Parasite
Two things that many new traders and even experienced traders waste their time on is regret and hindsight. They look at charts and see the past so clearly on them, they should have bought here, they should have sold there. Why didn’t they? The charts look so obvious in hindsight. We really should not waste
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Declutter Your Trading
Declutter definition: “To remove unnecessary items from (an untidy or overcrowded place).” There is only one reason to trade: to make money. You only need to incorporate things into your trading that makes you money. If you do not have a good filter on what matters and what does not matter trading can become a
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