Trading is not all math. It’s not just a system you plug into a chart or a path to easy money; you are going to have to earn it. If you do get lucky and make some quick money, you will eventually give it back to its rightful owners. Trading is a business that […]
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For a trader to be successful their intellect must defeat their ego. A trader must use probabilities to overcome their own personal opinions. A trader has to use risk management to overcome the hope that a losing trade will turn around and just take the original stop loss plan. A trader must allow the actual
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Forex bucket shops that pretend to be brokers but really trade against you. Many times killing accounts with big bid/ask spreads. Using attractive female photos to push some service off on traders. Trading newsletter writers that don’t even trade. They issue a lot of buy signals then cherry pick the winners to tout to the
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“There are just four kinds of bets. There are good bets, bad bets, bets that you win, and bets that you lose. Winning a bad bet can be the most dangerous outcome of all, because a success of that kind can encourage you to take more bad bets in the future, when the odds will
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Doing your best to risk no more than 1% of total trading capital per trade, should solve these five problems that traders face: If you only risk 1% of trading capital per trade, you will not experience more than a 10% draw down with 10 consecutive losses. If your trading
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Great chess quotes from Garry Kasparov that can apply to chess, trading, and daily life. You must know what questions to ask and ask them frequently. Questions are what matters. Questions, and discovering the right ones, are the key to staying on course. The top achievers believe in themselves and their plans, and they work
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Stay calm. Never trade position sizes that cause you increased anxiety. Stay within your comfort zone. Keep perspective. Keep in mind that one losing trade does not a failure make. If you are risking 1% of your trading capital, it should only be one of the next 100 trades. Stay comfortable. Make sure you
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Foolish traders confuse hindsight with trading. They think that because they reviewed price performance history, and saw patterns or results, trading in real time would be simple . They don’t understand that real time trading involves risk management, discipline, and a developed trading plan and probably never will. Foolish traders believe that what
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