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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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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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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This is a Guest Post by Dante Vincent you can find him on Twitter @DGTrading101. This post originally appeared on his website dgtrading101.blogspot.com. It is reposted here with permission. I get approached with this question so often. “How do I find direction in my trading? I don’t have a niche. I feel like everybody has one and
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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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In trading focus is crucial. You have to know who you are as a trader and exactly what your method and trading plan is, and you must follow it. In trading discipline makes money, focus makes money, stocks in up trends make money, while risk management allows you to keep the money that you have made. You
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“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” – Albert Einstein Paraphrase A trader has to learn what matters and what does not matter for their own profitability. A good filter can save a trader a lot of time, stress, and capital. You have to know what to watch, what to ignore, and
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Here are ten mistakes traders make that are eventually their undoing. I have made almost all of these mistakes with zeroes on the end at times. It takes years to learn these lessons and they are usually learned only the hard way through the financial pain of losses and the mental pain of being wrong.
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The weakest part of any trading method is the trader themselves. There are many, many, robust trading systems and methods that do make money in the long term. The problem is the trader having the discipline and mental toughness to trade one of them consistently. The vast majority of time it is not a system
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Trading is not really all about stock picking, predictions, and opinions. It is not even just about a winning system. Yes, first you have to understand how to trade and put the odds in your favor of winning, but that is not enough. You must also add in risk management so when you lose several times
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