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Today, We touch again upon that never-ending debate, particularly amongst newer traders, about the role of psychology in becoming a profitable and successful trader. How much does it play a role in trading? Some argue it plays no role and that all that needs to be followed are one’s trading signals. Others swear that it’s role is 80-90%. How these percentages are calculated or how accurate they are is irrelevant. The truth is, psychology can make or break you.
Continue Reading The Psychology of Forex Traders ProfitsCan Forex Trading be taught? – Most Traders Won’t Accept Help or Training. Many aspiringg forex traders believe they do not need any outside help when learning how to trade the forex market. I call “an aspiring trader” anybody that is not yet a “Professional Trader”. Part of the allure of trading in general is the independent lifestyle and freedom that it can provide for you if you are successful at it, but to achieve this takes time, and knowledge, and that knowledge needs to come from somewhere. One negative aspect of the independent attitude
Continue Reading Can Forex Trading Be Taught?So you’ve been trading or researching the forex market for a while now, you wake up each day and the first thing you think about is how bad you want to be a trader. You’ve thrown a few grand (Few thousand $$) into your trading account that you convinced yourself was disposable income and have had varying degrees of success thus far. You haven’t exactly made any serious money yet because your account is still hovering around breakeven; you did have a few killer trades but quickly gave all of your profits back to the market
Continue Reading Your Forex Trading Journey Starts Here . . .Aspiring forex traders often spend countless hours searching for that perfect trading system which they think will make them rich by following a particular set of trading rules in a robotic manner. Unfortunately, most traders fail to realize that the real “secret” to successful forex trading lies in a thorough understanding and implementation of risk reward scenarios and position sizing. Forex trading is at its very core a game of probabilities, to become a consistently successful forex trader you will need to view each trade setup as a probability.
Continue Reading Risk Reward & Position Sizing in Forex TradingWhen a trader panics, you can be pretty sure that for the next few hours or days, he or she is going to lose money. All the basic instincts in your brain – which can be called the “caveman brain,” or the sort of fight-or-flight feeling of emotion that is designed to stop you from being eaten by a saber-tooth tiger, take over your decision-making. You start trading scared, taking smaller positions on good ideas and cutting profits too quickly.
Continue Reading Making Forex Trading DecisionsThe best method to maintain such simplicity and clarity while trading is price action. When we use simple price action setups to trade the market we are giving ourselves a much greater chance at remaining objective and calm and thus profitable. Choosing to learn how to use price action setups on a simple plain vanilla price chart is a decision that you can make which will greatly increase the likelihood of you not falling into the trap of emotional trading mistakes.
Continue Reading Forex Trading Success Comes From WithinSometimes the more we want something the harder it becomes to obtain. This is never truer than it is when applied to the world of forex trading. Many, if not most, traders approach the forex market from the mindset of, “I NEED to make money from this”, or, “I REALLY want to quit my job and become a full-time forex trader”. While these are indeed admirable and lofty goals, such thinking patterns can contribute to a cascade of psychological impediments to consistent trading results…
Continue Reading The Path to Price Action Forex Trading Success “Less Is More”This article will spell out a way to construct your own personal Constitution, one which can guide you in your daily life and as a trader. Imagine you are driving along one day and you pass a church with many cars parked outside. Out of curiosity you pull in. With a strange feeling of apprehension and anticipation you enter and walk down the aisle.
Continue Reading A SUCCESSFUL FOREX TRADER’S CONSTITUTION – Part 2A FOREX TRADER’S CONSTITUTION (PART 1)
On the 6th of May, 1954, Roger Bannister broke the 4 minute mile. His time was 3.59,4 minutes. Everyone said it was unthinkable, that his heart would explode. But he did not listen. His feat is known as the ‘Dream Miles’. Amazingly enough, 4 weeks later, an Australian named John Landy broke it too. What had been deemed impossible now had become an accepted possibility.
THE BREAK-EVEN FOREX TRADE – Being profitable in the forex is where we all want to be. And how we measure this is often by quantifying our results in terms of profit versus losses. Yet, this measure cannot he, by itself, sufficient to sustain our motivation. All traders have periods of losses en route to profits. As a result, a single-minded desire for profits may itself be a factor in furthering losses and actually reduce the potential for success. For once a person desires profits, resulting losses turn into disappointments
Continue Reading The Psychology of BREAK EVEN Forex TradesAn Eye-Opening Article on Forex Trading Money Management – Everyone knows that money management in forex trading is a crucial aspect of success or failure. Yet most people don’t spend nearly enough time concentrating on developing or implementing a money management plan. The paradox of this is that until you develop your money management skills and consistently utilize them on every single trade you execute, you will never be a consistently profitable trader.
Continue Reading Forex Trading Money Managment – An EYE OPENING ArticleThe acronym K.I.S.S. stands for Keep It Simple Stupid. This acronym is as applicable to the field of forex trading as it is to any. Keeping it simple in regards to your forex trading means keeping all aspects of your forex trading activity simple, from the way you think about price movement to the way you execute your trades. Simplicity is the most often and easily over-looked factor to profiting long-term in any financial market. The reasons that trading lends itself so easily to leading people to believe that they must use complicated and (or) expensive trading methods are many and varied. This article will help you to understand why traders tend to over-complicate forex trading and the best way that you can work to use the power of simplicity to your advantage.
Continue Reading K.I.S.S. ‘ Keep it Simple Stupid Forex Trading Method ‘Price Action removed all the noise and mess of the charts. I now look at raw price charts with only 1 or 2 longer term moving averages to assit with trend definition. The entire method is based around simple, concise trading rules.
Continue Reading How Price Action Trading Changed My life – Full Time Forex TradingForex Trading Failure – Why Most Traders Fail – Most aspiring forex traders unfortunately do not ever achieve the success they desire when starting out. There are a number of psychological errors at work here that contribute to failure in the forex market. This article will focus on one of the primary psychological errors that hold traders back from achieving their desired results; over-complicating their forex analysis and strategy. It is extremely easy for forex traders to fall into the trap of thinking that their method needs to be technically difficult to understand or that they need to do extensive analysis in order to consistently profit.
Continue Reading Forex Trading Failure – Why Most Traders FailThe Routine of a Successful Price Action Forex Trader – Trading success is a result of discipline, and having a set daily routine is one aspect of being a disciplined forex trader. It is so easy to fall off track and start making emotional mistakes as a trader that you really need to consciously stop this from happening by having a daily routine that you go through every day. A daily routine will add a degree of order and stability to your trading
Continue Reading Habits of a Successful Price Action Forex TraderThis article is the first in a series which will look hard at what makes a trader successful. It deals with the taking of responsibility for ones actions and emotions in the market place, including the issue of adherence to our own trading rules.
Continue Reading What Makes a Successful Forex Trader ?So you’re on a losing streak and your capital is down by 50 percent from recent highs, you keep on punting away in the belief that you’re about to recover all your losses. You just know that if you can hit that big winner it will bring your account back up to where it was when you started. You are very excited about the prospect of making everything back you have lost recently and are looking forward to finally making some decent coin above and beyond your initial account deposit.
Continue Reading Forex Traders Rehab – Recovering 1 Pip at a TimeFOREX TRADING PSYCOLOGY 101 -Psychologists have made profiles of many professional groups such as the police, pilots and firemen. It is becoming more and more frequent that businesses of all sorts are beginning to request job applicants to undergo psychometric tests to see if they are suitable for the job. In these tests, certain personality qualities are seen as more desirable than others for particular lines of work.
Continue Reading Forex Psychology Basics 101Price Action Trading; the Most Adaptable Forex Trading Method. In order to consistently profit in the forex market you need a method that will allow you take advantage of ever-changing market conditions. Whether range bound or trending, the forex market is a dynamic and sometimes volatile market to trade. If your method to trade this market mainly involves indicators such as stochastics, MACD, RSI, or any host of others you are probably putting yourself in the worst position possible to take advantage of forex price movement.
Continue Reading Price Action Trading – The Most Adaptable Forex Trading MethodWhy Forex is the Best Market to Trade. 1. Forex is the largest financial market in the world.
The forex market has daily volume of over $3 trillion per day, dwarfing volume in the equity and future markets combined. Such a huge amount of daily volume allows for excellent price stability in most market conditions. This means you likely will never have to worry about slippage as you would when trading stocks or commodities. The price you see quoted on your trading screen is the price you get.
