Trading Habit #14 “Successful trading is about consistently doing the difficult thing so often that it becomes second nature.” – Richard Weissman The easy trade is usually the losing trade. When a trader feels the most comfortable entering a trade to get on board a trend it is usually close to the end. It is […]
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Trading Habit #8 Bull Markets have no long term resistance, and Bear Markets have no long term support. After a Bearish market environment many sellers and ‘weak hands’ get washed out of the market during the process of lower lows over a long period of time. During a 20% drop in prices into a bear
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Trading Habit #13 “Trends never turn on a dime. Reversals build slowly. The first sharp dip always finds buyers and the first sharp rise always finds sellers.” – Alan Farley It is important for traders to understand that trends do not go straight up or straight down they tend to zig zag back and forth
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Trading Habit #17 “Money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.” – George Soros The obvious trades that everyone thinks are a no brainer usually do not work because when a trade becomes obvious it is too late as the winning traders prepare their exit strategies to lock in profits
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Trading Rule #2: Your trading system must be built on quantifiable facts not opinions. Very few new traders take the step from trading opinions and predictions to trading actual price action and signals. Amateurs take trades based on feelings while professionals have fact based reasons. A signal is a quantifiable reason to take a trade
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This post is an excerpt from my best selling book “Trading Habits” and is rule #1 of 39. “Because they have no rules to follow, everything no-rules discretionary traders do is a mistake.” – Van Tharp A winning trading system must either be designed to have a large winning percentage of trades or big wins
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“The right trading behaviors start as rules and evolve into habits.” – Brett Steenbarger Across sports, business, and entertainers the top performers are not the ones that have to think through their every action. The top performers have trained themselves to react at the right time and do the right thing in each situation. Champions
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This is a Guest Post by: Colibri Trader @priceinaction. This article is used here with permission and originally appeared here on ColibriTrader.com. Why Doing More of What Works Might Help You Become Better Traders? It is a well known fact that traders are one-trick ponies. Does that have something to do with doing more of what
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This is a guest post by Martin Trader @EminiSurf and this post was originally posted at: The 3 pillars of successful trading. Trading is simple, although not easy. In order to become a consistently profitable trader, you first need to grasp, at a theoretical level, what makes a good system profitable. These are the three pillars
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There are some common mistakes that the majority of traders make as they dive into trading before they have really studied what does and does not work. All new traders will find many of these things familiar. Some of us had to fight our natural impulses hard to overcome these bad habits. A Dozen Dumb
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