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source: Dr Pipslow 1. It takes money to make money. While a lot of traders have been successful starting small, they’ve also had to deal with pitfalls involved with trading small accounts. Trading with oversized and overleveraged positions, for example, presents … Continue reading →

DECODING MARKETS February 20, 2022 The best traders follow consistent strategies. Many use the same signals repeatedly to show them when to enter and exit a trade. In other words, they place orders on a trading system that they have developed through trial-and-error.  … Continue reading →

Source: ElearnMarkets Intraday trading is generally high-risk trading. Many traders believe that intraday trading is only about the right ideas and trades. However, it is much more about how the traders can manage their risks and stick to their trading … Continue reading →

Source: Matt Blackman There is an old expression in business that, if you fail to plan, you plan to fail. It may sound glib, but people that are serious about being successful, including traders, should follow those words as if … Continue reading →

Source:Andrian Reid Your trading system goals impact everything you do in trading system development and your ultimate profitability. Most traders fail because they try to use someone else’s system, take tips, read trading newsletters or rely on broker recommendations. These … Continue reading →

source: SquareOff 80% of the Traders blow their account in the first 2 years of their Trading career. Why? Is it because they don’t have enough knowledge of technical analysis? Or Is it because they don’t have enough money to … Continue reading →

source:Square Off Many of my friends who work at Corporate culture are fed up with their work life, one question they keep asking me is how much money do I need to retire and live comfortably? Gone are the days … Continue reading →

Source: Contrarian Living You do know the mathematical formula of compounding. But do you also understand the non-linearity of compounding? If we want to create wealth over the long term, we need to fulfill three important criteria – Living a … Continue reading →

Oddmund GroetteFebruary 13, 2022 Does backtesting work? Backtesting is a tool that not only small retail traders use but also big institutions. The world’s most successful hedge fund, Jim Simons’ Medallion Fund, uses backtesting continuously to develop new strategies. Why? Because backtesting works! … Continue reading →

source: Finkarma 90% of your losses come from less than 10% of the trades. If you don’t believe me check your P&L report and You will see that you are at loss due to very few but big losses. In … Continue reading →

source: Economic Times Newspaper Greed and Fear drives the market, it’s really hard to control emotions during panic times. Even one of the richest investors in the world Warren Buffett make mistakes, you know what he did in 2020 Corona … Continue reading →

source: Saurabh Sisodhia Trading is simple but not easy! It is simple because you can buy or sell stocks just at the click of a button, but what to buy and when to buy is a difficult ball-game altogether. 95% … Continue reading →

Yvan Byeajee January 24, 2022 I’m sure you’d agree, being consistently profitable in the market sounds simple, and it is [in theory]. But in practice, it’s harder than it looks. Consistent profitability is so difficult not because the market is rigged … Continue reading →

A Trading journal is a tool that you can use to keep track of all of the trades that you have made. It can be as detailed as you want and can be kept both digitally or on an actual … Continue reading →

Source Ray Tayneor Why do you want to be a trader? You want financial freedom. You don’t want to answer to anybody. You want to be your own boss. You want to make money. You want a passive source of … Continue reading →

Elements of Successful Trading Traders that have the right mind set, money management, and winning method make money, those that are missing even one of the three, will eventually ‘blow up’ their account. This applies to both professionals and amateurs. … Continue reading →

Everyone makes mistakes! That’s normal and that’s good. If you make mistakes it means you are doing something. But it’s important that your mistakes have a small impact on your trading and life. Otherwise you have a problem … What’s a trading mistake? … Continue reading →

The Systematic Trader’s Advantage Adrian ReidJanuary 11, 2022 Stock trading systems give you a huge advantage in the markets. My goal is to show you how you can use trading systems to improve your results, increase your confidence and reduce the amount … Continue reading →

by Steve Burns. You may think managing risk and position size is not needed because you will always be right, but in trading, literally anything can happen. Black Swan events are the new normal. You must use risk management to protect yourself through … Continue reading →

Trading for a living is a professional endeavor like any other. It requires a large amount of capital to go full time like any other business and the returns are irregular much like being a commissioned sales person. It is … Continue reading →

I was reading the book ‘The New Market Wizards’ by Jack D Schwager. In this book the author interviews some of the Super Traders.  One of the Super Traders is Randy Mckay a veteran futures trader in currencies. He is … Continue reading →

We will never find a trader who has not faced a losing trade or lost money. It is futile exercise to avoid loss making trades as it is impossible to predict the markets. While we are paper trading or doing … Continue reading →

Trading Plans, exit strategies, entry strategies, risk management, stop loss limits are all very important to trading. Many of us fail to realize that over and above all of these we should learn how to trade well. Greed is one … Continue reading →

I committed many trading mistakes in my early trading days. I thought why not summarise them so that they will be like a lesson to me which I can read again and again. This may also help those new comers … Continue reading →

It may seem like an elementary question that is quite straight forward. But in order to be a successful trader we should know ‘How to Trade’. Most of the traders do not give the due importance to this question before … Continue reading →

While trading we traders desire that we make profits everyday in the market. Whether we trade stocks, index, commodities or something else. But to our utter dismay we find that this is not possible. There are profit trades and there … Continue reading →

What is straddle strategy? Is straddle a good strategy? How can we make money using straddlestrategy in option trading? A straddle is an option trading strategy. It is a non directional strategy. In this strategy we short a call and … Continue reading →

Option give the best opportunities to trade with less margin and less risk. I am an option trader and I can tell about options. The less risky strategies in option strategies are the Iron Condor and Iron Fly. In both … Continue reading →

The lessons I learnt are mostly what I knew already. I have mentioned a few of them. To be successful in trading we have to be disciplined. I was not able to strictly follow my trading plan. On many occassions … Continue reading →