Posts Tagged by psychology of trading

Are These 4 Emotional Pitfalls Sabotaging Your Trading?

Are These 4 Emotional Pitfalls Sabotaging Your Trading? [Originally Published] August 13, 2009 By Jeffrey Kennedy The following is an excerpt from Jeffrey Kennedy’s Trader’s Classroom Collection. For a limited time, Elliott Wave International is offering Jeffrey Kennedy’s report, How to Use Bar Patterns to Spot Trade Setups, free. [Emotional Pitfalls:1] To be a consistently successful…

Trading Plan Failing? Losing money in the stock market? Ask yourself these three questions

By Cory Mitchell, CMT Struggling to come up with a trading plan that makes you money? Are you losing money in the stock market (or forex market)? Use these three questions to get your trading plan on track. You have come up with a trading plan (for a tutorial on creating a trading plan see:…

What Losing Traders Do – Multi Millionaire Trader Gives You Some Priceless Pointers

What Losing Traders Do – Multi Millionaire Trader Gives You Some Priceless Pointers By Vince Stanzione I have been trading futures, options and equities for around 23 years. As well as trading my own money I have traded money for banks and I have been a broker for private clients. Over the years I have…

Trading – Begin With an End in Mind

Futures Trading – Begin With an End in Mind  By Jared P Erni Those who are successful day traders understand that 90% of trading is psychological; the other 10% is what you know about the markets and your strategy. It is interesting that many who try learning to day trade end up losing because they focus…

Loss Aversion: Your Long Weekend Trading Insight

The following is an article that I wrote for last week’s newsletter (sign up for free along the right hand side – it is sent out once a week on the weekend and covers the markets as well as insights like this). In this week’s newsletter we are going to look at how we screen…