SELF DEVELOPMENT/METHODOLOGY/PSYCHOLOGY Money Management/Psychology Cycle of Market Emotions The Upturn • Optimism: The normal financial specialist enters the market feeling hopeful. They may likewise have elevated requirements for the profits in which they are involved. • Excitement: When the market goes up, the desires begin to end up noticeably a...
There so many random people starting hedge funds & all they have to do is shadow the market and voila, you are a millionaire (this is 100% true), in a batch of thousands of people some are going to be lucky - simply a normal distribution - and get better results and end up billionaires instead of millionaires. They are certainly good at marketing and presentation...
Hello Crypto Family, Reading the charts and indicators is very important and helpful but without having a plan to manage your money, sooner or later you gonna lose money. It happens that you will find yourself on the wrong side of the trade and having the discipline to execute your plan (exiting the trade) is essential. “The four most dangerous words in...
I have found out that the best breakout trades occur when a trader does the following things: 1. Finds an area of consolidation under and area of significant support if you are selling and or above resistance if you are buying. 2. Split your position sizing into 3rds so you would be able to enter at least three times because there is a very big chance for false...
It can be a very daunting task to create a trading plan/strategy that fits you without conflict. There are a lot of obstacles that inhibit the average trader from leaving a profitable trading plan or strategy as it is. Even I struggle with this which is why I have decided to publish this article. After much reflection, I have come with a few metrics you can use to...
Hi everyone, Some of you may or may not know that big changes will take place on august 1st 2018 on Forex and CFDs market especially for retail clients. ESMA for European Securities and Markets Authority decided to ban binary option and apply a drastic decrease on leverage on all financial instruments including forex, CFDs and crypto. All UE regulated brokers...
This is a very descriptive example on how a trader can find high probability trades that are very unlikely to reverse. The markets are full of fractals so this strategy should be good for any timeframe but I highly suggest you use these timeframes as follows. If you place trades using the 4hr, use the daily for trend (example on the chart). If you place trades...
Risk & Money Management Risk management, in my opinion, is equal in importance to psychology because it allows your trading strategy/edge to play out by keeping you in the market equity wise. There really isn’t much to risk management other than its number one rule, never risk more than 1% per trade. Risking one percent per trade allows your trading system to...
Psychology Psychology, like anything in life, plays a big role on how humans function. It affects the way we think, act, talk, and so on but when it comes to trading it affects us, oddly enough, in only one way and that’s through our emotions. Any experienced (or shall I say inexperienced) trader knows and understands the waves of overwhelming emotions that...
This chart show a beautiful example of what I describe as "spreading the trade" when it come to money management. OANDA:EURNZD
For example you have 100.000 Total Capital You can spend for One Trade: Only 10% of your Free Capital Your Total Capital: 100.000 First Trade: 10.000 After 1st Trade your Free Capital: 90.000 Second Trade: 9.000 After 2nd Trade your Free Capital: 81.000 Third Trade: 8.100 After 3rd Trade your Free Capital: 72.900 Fourth Trade: 7.290 After 4th Trade...
This is an observation with educational purposes, for myself and for the people who might find it useful. First of all, the results that are shown here are made from the last 13 trades that were published and TRIGGERED, here in the website. Each one of those trades are measure in terms of risk to reward, in other words terms of risk units. Remember when you are...
Money makes money . It's an age-old saying, probably because it's generally true. But starting out as a retail trader can be daunting and at times, frustrating. It takes time to build up a sizable account big enough to allow us to take the leap from trading part time, to full time trading. Something that has kept me motivated over the years is an excel...
Top 5 Risk Management Rules: 1. Only Trade with Risk Capital -Risk Capital is the amount of money you are willing to lose and do not include your living capital into your trading account! 2. 2% Risk Management -The 2% Rule prohibits you from risking more than 2% of your account equity on each trade you are entering. 3. 6% Risk Management -The 6% Rule prohibits...
Stop losses aim to end a trade when the market goes so far in the opposite direction, that the trade idea no longer makes sense. It’s the point of invalidation . Ideally, they get hit on bad trades only and not on good trades. The area between entry point and stop loss is a zone where the trade is at a loss, but can still recover. This is not an invalidation of...
TEST YOUR TRADING SYSTEM I will not go deep into this, because it quickly becomes a shouting match on who has the best system, which is usually more about ego than fact. It is sufficient to say that I have seen / know of profitable traders who use fundamentals, price patterns, Elliot waves, renko, moving averages, structure levels, pitchforks, trend rules and...
As we all know, when we open a trade, there is no guarantee it will be a winner. Given the win rate of a certain trading strategy, there is a random distribution between wins and losses. We trade to make money over a larger number of trades, not to win every individual trade, which would simply be unrealistic. That is why it’s important to be confident when we...