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Supply and Demand – Successful Traders

Understanding supply and demand can help us become more successful traders. Supply and demand tends to be the professional trader’s main focus. This means researching the relationship between price action, volume and price spreads. Novice traders however focus on technical analysis indicators; moving averages, stochastic, time cycles, astrological factors etc. The fact is, some feel […]

Random Markets & Other Misconceptions

Most people see movements in the stock market as being random. Or at the very least heavily influenced by news. Yet how many times do we see a stock or market move in the opposite direction to what we thought it was going to do? Sudden moves can often surface out of nowhere, and appear […]

Beliefs and Objectives about Trading

Before you start trading it’s good time to review your beliefs about trading, the markets, what you feel is possible, what you believe to be probable and what you think is false. Once you’ve thought these through, review your objectives. What exactly are you wanting to achieve? What are you good at? What skills or […]

Stop. Revive. Survive.

Do you need to stop, revive, survive? Previously we’ve discussed how being passionate about what you do is an important ingredient towards success and longevity. We emphasised how exercise should be an essential part of everyone’s weekly trading strategy to maintain physical and psychological well being. However, beware the paradox that can come into play […]

Move to Improve Your Trading Results

Love trading? Do you need to move to improve your trading results? For many of us it’s a passion, whether we’re trading full time or as a secondary income. With an endless learning curve, trading can be all-consuming with every spare moment spent in front of the computer. And this is where trading starts becoming […]

The Biggest Business in the World

What is the biggest business in the world? No, it’s not Apple Inc (AAPL), Amazon.com (AMZN) or Alphabet (GOOGL). Every day billions of dollars change hands across stock, futures and currency markets around the world. As traders and investors, participating in these markets means taking part in the biggest business on the planet. Major businesses […]

Tips for Trend Following

What are some tips for trend following? We all like trading trends. It’s the name of the game when it comes to trading profitably over the longer term. What are the trend trading rules? Here are some simple yet robust rules that will hold you in good stead no matter what times frames you are […]

Accountability for Trading Success

In a recent article we spoke about the isolation that can come through trading for a living. So, how can isolation lead to accountability issues? In a normal day job, most people are accountable to their immediate manager and may have KPI’s to meet. As a minimum the manager is keeping a watchful eye over […]

If I had to choose one trading strategy…

If I had to choose one trading strategy it would be without hesitation – trend following. To be more specific, long side trend following using individual stocks. Why? A variety of reasons. In my view it’s the easiest way to generate a positive expectancy, specifically the ability to allow winners to get bigger, yet keep losers […]

Improve Your Results By Giving Up

So is it possible to improve your results to be a successful trader by giving up? We’ve spoken before about the qualities required to be a successful trader. There are a million and one books about it, some better than others. Yet what about the ingrained traits that we should be GIVING UP to take […]