Forex Trading Blog
The Market Will Deceive You If You Let It
The cold hard truth about trading the financial markets is that the things you’re led to believe are important are often not as important as you...
A Part-Time Trading Routine for People with Jobs
Meet Bill, an aspiring trader. Bill is a 32-year-old, full-time office assistant working in the city, trying to make the most of his life the best...
How To Use 1 & 4 hour Chart Time-Frames to Confirm Daily Chart Signals
A common question beginning traders ask me is whether or not I use intraday or "lower time frame charts" and if so, how do I use them? For the...
The 3 Mental Hacks That Will Transform Your Trading
So, you want to be a successful trader who makes money consistently in the markets? First, ask yourself this: Do you have a successful mind? You...
How to Trade Like A Hedge Fund Manager
You might be shocked to hear this, but there aren't many differences between you and a professional hedge fund manager. The only real differences are...
Price Action Technical Analysis Reveals the Footprint of Money
Price action is the movement of price over time, this movement leaves behind a 'footprint', the footprint of money. This footprint, once...
3 Trading Strategies I Would Take to A Desert Island
Everyone likes to have fun with hypothetical “Desert Island” questions. You know the ones where you’re sitting around with your friends asking...
Master These 3 Trading Tricks to Supercharge Your Results
Want to “supercharge” your trading results? Of course, you do! Well, read on because today’s lesson is a power-packed price action trading...
Why Perfect Trading Is The Enemy Of Good Trading
How much is enough? How much researching, chart-watching and just general thinking about your trading is harmful? How does doing too much trading...
How To Set Yourself Up For Trading Success
A wise man once said, "Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity". However, many unsuccessful people seem to think luck is just...
Why Two Different Traders Can See The Same Chart Very Differently
A curious fact of trading is that you can take two different traders and give them the exact same chart and even the same trading pattern, and you...
The Psychological Advantages of Set and Forget Trading Regimes
Set and forget trading is a phrase that I coined several years back in an article I wrote on the topic. It’s a trading approach that works if you...
What Trading Legend George Soros Can Teach Us About Trading
George Soros: The man, the myth, the legend. If you haven’t heard of him and you’re a trader, you are missing out on a lot of very valuable...
6 Types Of Tailed Bar Candlestick Trading Strategies
Tailed bars are the most important bars on a price chart. Plain and simple. The reason they are so important is because they often give us a very...
Master ONE Thing To Reach Trading Success
The background and inspiration for today’s article came about after I read a great book called The One Thing. In short, it's about how the...
The 30-Minute Trading Routine For Busy People
You're busy, I’m busy, everyone’s busy, right? I’ve got good news and bad news. The good news is, it doesn’t matter if you’re busy because...
This Brain Tweak Could Dramatically Improve Your Trading
Imagine if you could insert a plug into the back of your head and upload a piece of software code into your brain that would allow you to trade like...
10 Things You Can Learn From The World’s Best Traders
Today’s lesson is a virtual treasure trove of wisdom and insight from some of the best trading minds of all time. We are going to go on a...
To Make Big Money Trading, Don’t Think About the Money
Obviously, you’re into trading to make money, the dream is always to earn money and live the lifestyle of our choosing and enjoy the freedom...
What If You Only Took 4 Trades a Month?
How many trades did you take last month? 4? 40? 400? The answer will tell me a lot about you and how you’re doing in the market. There’s an...
How to Exorcise Your Trading Demons
As portrayed in Hollywood movies, when a demon takes over a person's mind that person is said to be 'possessed' by it. They no longer have control...
The Myths Of Trading You Must Remove From Your Mind
There are numerous misconceptions and incorrect assumptions that surrounding trading. These myths are held both by aspiring traders as well as the...
You’re Only as Good as Your Last Trade
Today’s lesson is going to help you eliminate one of the biggest psychological handicaps that is standing in the way of your trading success....
Before You Place Your Next Trade, Ask Yourself These 10 Questions
A commercial airline pilot goes through an extensive pre-flight checklist to avoid any problems once that jumbo-jet gets airborne. Similarly, you...
How To Catch That Runaway Market Trend
It's no secret that some of the major stock market indices have been screaming higher recently. If you look at an S&P500 daily chart for example,...
Trading is a Marathon, Not a Sprint
If you’re trying to win the Ironman Triathlon where contestants must first swim 3.86 kilometers, then bike 180.25 kilometers followed by a 42.20...
Trading is Survival of the Fittest – Will You Evolve or Die?
Do you want to be the best trader you can possibly be, and make consistent profits trading? Of course, you do. Do you want to be and feel the best...
Beware of The Trading Pandora’s Box
In Greek Mythology, Pandora’s “box” was actually a large jar given to Pandora (the first woman on Earth), which contained all the evils of the...
What’s Your New Year Trading Resolution?
This time of year most of western civilization is reflecting upon the year gone by, thinking about what they did right, what they did wrong and how...
A Simple Mindset Hack That Will Make You a Better Trader Almost Instantly
What if I told you that you could become a significantly better trader starting next week? Well, you can, and it’s totally within your control. All...
6 Unknown Winning Habits of Successful Traders
It is a fact that successful traders think and act very differently from unsuccessful traders. In today’s lesson on the unknown and rarely...
Why The Best Trading Plan Is Built Around Anticipation
Professional traders do not just react to the market, they anticipate it. If you want to move from the ranks of losing traders into the upper-echelon...
6 Tips On How To Identify The Trend On Charts
Through my 15+ years experience in trading, I have discovered that when it comes to identifying the trend of a market, there is no magical tool, no...
Is Your Stop Loss Too Tight ?
What do pants and stop losses have in common? Very little, actually, but as Will Ferrell so hilariously demonstrates in this video on tight pants,...
How to Trade Long Tailed Pin Bar Signals on Daily Charts
I often get asked if I have a favorite price action chart pattern to trade, and the answer is yes, yes, I do. Today’s lesson is about that chart...
The ‘Weekend’ Forex Traders Lifestyle (How & Why It Works)
Some people hate working on the weekends but I love it, in fact, I look forward to it, here’s why… As a trader, I know it’s critically...
What Is The Weakest Link In Your Trading Chain ?
It probably comes as no surprise when I say that 'YOU' are standing in your own way when it comes to trading success and success in your life in...
How Beginner Traders Can Fast-Track Their Success
Trading is an endeavor people become attracted to largely because they believe it offers a way to make money fast. However, as any experienced...
The 7 Types of Support and Resistance You Need to Know
Markets ebb and flow; they go up, they come down and they move sideways. The primary ways we make sense of these movements are analyzing the price...
VIDEO: How I Make Money Trading GOLD Using Price Action Analysis
In this video trading lesson, I discuss how I use the 'fakey price action pattern' to make money trading GOLD and the next 'potential trade setup' I...