Tag Archives: development

Assessing Your Trading Expectations for Your Trading Plan

I took a bit of unexpected hiatus from the trading plan discussion yesterday, but today we get …

Opportunities and Training at Prop Trading Firms

If you were ever wondering about trading for a prop firm, the training offered by those sorts …

Continuing to Assess Your Trading

Yesterday I started you on the process of working through your Personal Assessment. Today I will continue on that path. Again, this …

Your Personal Trading Assessment

In this post I will continue on the series I started last week relating to developing a strong, …

How Does One Develop Trading Plan?

This is the second part of a series on creating a trading plan for yourself. The material …

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Creating Your Own Trading Plan

Every trader needs to have a solid, well-developed trading plan of their own. This post will get you started putting one together that will help you get the most of your trading.

What is Scalping?

If you spend much time in trading circles you will almost certainly come across the term scalping. …

I’ll Take Experience Every Time

When I was a volleyball coach (youth and college) one of the things that was very readily …

Sometimes You Need to Trade Scared

It is very often true that doing the easy thing is not the right thing. I’ve been …

Help Me Trade Forex With Candles!

I am a newbie forex trader. My greatest challenge is identifying entry and exit using candlestick. I’ll be …

Am I Ready to Trade Live?

How do I know that I am ready to trade forex live? This, I’m sure, is a …

Is it still feasible to trade forex?

One of my mailing list members sent me the following inquiry:  Is it still feasible to trade forex …

Tight Stops Make Me Nervous

Any time I see someone comment on a blog or in a forum, or hear someone say, …

Should I Use Price Targets in My Trading?

I have come across a number of discussions in forums and on blogs in which people state …

Treat the Disease, Not the Symptoms

I’ve recently been involved in a discussion on the StockTickr blog on the subject of trading mistakes. …

Are You Addicted to Trading?

There’s a New York Times article that’s caused some buzz among the trading bloggers today. Naturally, the …

Trading Education and Trader Development – What You Need to Think About

In response to my Take the Trading Long View post from the other day, Brett Steenbarger has …

What Does This Chart Tell You?

Charles Kirk (Kirk Report) has put up something a little bit sneaky, but which has important implications. Check …

Take the Trading Long View

One of the most important keys to success in trading is to take the long-run view of …

Practice, Practice, and Practice Some More

A Trade2Win member going by the moniker of bluetipex made posted the following recently in response to an earlier poster …

What Market or Markets do You Trade?

Most traders basically fall into a market when they get started. They generally don’t give it a …

Can Anyone Help Me Find a Mentor?

Here’s another question along a subject line which is often brought up by new traders: Hi I …

How do you Define Trading Success?

Success is a word that gets tossed around alot in the discussion of trading performance and trader …

Absolutes in Trading Often Mean Absolute Disasters

One of the things that I’ve learned along the way is to be very careful when anyone …

Don’t Swing too Hard

Have you ever seen a baseball player swing so hard at a pitch that he lost his …

A Set of Trading Rules

There’s a post on the Kirk Report blog which offers up 12 Trading Rules. In general terms …

Millionaire Trader Advice

There’s a new book out which is garnering some attention. It’s title is Millionaire Traders and is …

Trading competitions are games, nothing more

This week CNBC kicked off it’s Million Dollar Portfolio Challenge. They’ve put plugging the stock trading competition …

Make sure your instincts match your environment

Well, my time out west is nearly at its end. It’s back to the Northeast first thing …

Accept and recognize your mistakes

One of the things that can cause major problems in your trading is the failure to accept …

Fear is healthy, greed is good

In this overly sensitive day and age it is commonly said that in order to get the …

Golf and Trading – Learning from Tiger

I’m not a golfer. The extent of my playing has been a whopping total of 9 holes, …

Trade real money, not paper money

In the last chapter of The Essentials of Trading I wrote something that many people would consider …

The better you are, the better you want to be

“If you’re any good at all, you know you can be better” – Lindsey Buckingham That’s from …

Trading Coaching and Mentoring

A question that was posed to me following on my review of Brett Steenbarger’s new book Enhancing …

A Little Trading Story

I got an email from Trading Markets yesterday.  As you may be aware, I have been contributing commentary …

Trader Development: The Value of Coaching and the Difficulty of Finding One

Trader education has become a hot topic in recent years.  Everywhere you look there is someone offering …

It’s OK to be on the sidelines

Keep in mind that you don’t have to trade. Many traders get in trouble because they feel …

How the Financial Markets Can Grow More than Just Your Bank Account

The financial markets provide us with the opportunity to grow in ways that most people probably do …

Ten New Trader Pitfalls

So you want to trade, eh? Or have you already started? What drew you to it? Was …

Start Trading: Throw the Excuses Out the Window!

People make all kinds of excuses as to why they cannot get involved in investing or trading …