Mindset
10 Ways to Deconstruct Your Trading and Build a Better Plan
Just like a mechanic, to be successful as traders we need to learn how to diagnose the different aspects of our trading and repair, replace, or adjust them. For some that’s a bit of fine tuning, for some its a complete overhaul!
9Jul2008 | Mo | 1 comment | Continued
Losing? How to Figure Out Where You Are Going Wrong
One of the most common questions we receive at Trading Advice is “where am I going wrong?”. To the new or struggling trader, there can often seem like such a mind boggling array of variables in trading, that it seems impossible to unravel the primary issues.
When you strip away your emotions on the [...]
Is your blood sugar affecting your trading without you even realizing?
This is a slightly different piece of trading advice than the usual! But don’t say that we don’t tell you everything you may need to be successful!!
A few years ago I started to have really bad migraine headaches during and after trading. You can have a profitable trading method and a great mindset, but if [...]
Clearing the way for trading success
What’s standing between you and consistent profitability? Even having found a method that others use profitably, many traders still struggle to turn a profit, using exactly the same method.
If you’ve read some of my early blog posts you’ll know that this was my own painful experience. Having overcome it and gone on to make a [...]
Trading advice for conquering the fear of losing
Here’s a blog post with guidance about one of the most debilitating emotions for a struggling trader - the fear of losing. Sometimes its there from the start and sometimes it develops as you go through a period of losses. It leads to other issues like an inability to pull the trigger, getting out of [...]
30May2008 | Mo | 0 comments | Continued
Trading advice for avoiding losses
As a struggling trader you can safely assume that there is a very cozy and intimate relationship going on between your losses and your self-control.
Why is it safe to assume that? Because trading all boils down to your ability to execute your method and money management strategy. If your method works and you execute it [...]
Choosing a method that tells you ‘when’
As I said in my last blog post, what if you didn’t have to be constantly watching the market like a hawk, absorbed in moment to moment price action? What if there was a piece of trading advice that would help you gain some valuable emotional distance from the market you are trading?
One of the [...]
