Wondering what it’s like to day trade for the first time? As a newcomer to this industry, you will have tons of mixed emotions approaching your first day in action. You don’t want to show up to your first day fearful and scared. If you prepare and get educated, you will come in as a …
Keep having big losers wipe out weeks/months worth of gains? Winning trades turning into losers? Putting your stop loss in the wrong places? Risk management is one of the biggest factors that determine your ability to be a profitable trader in the markets. Here are 6 must-watch video lessons to improve risk management for day …
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More size means more profits right? Most of the time, this is not the case for new traders. Money creates emotions. If you increase your size too much, it becomes difficult to control and manage your emotions. Emotions will be in your trading no matter what. Succesful trading requires not the elimination of emotions, but …
Buy Virgin Galactic at the open today expecting it would go to the moon? The stock had great news, why did it tank today? The stock market isn’t that simple. Get familiar with this phrase: “Buy the rumor, sell the news”. This is one of the most counterintuitive aspects for new and inexperienced traders. Today’s …
Trying to time the exact bottom or exact top is one of the BIGGEST mistakes new traders make. We see traders every day on Twitter sharing their bottom tick or top tick prints. But what you do not see is the 5 losses they took on the way down trying to guess the bottom, and …
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In trading, you are your own worst enemy. Fear of missing out and chasing. Fear of taking losses because you’re scared. Not taking profits because of greed. Revenge trading because you want to make back what you lost. No matter what stage in your trading journey you are in, trading psychology is the biggest obstacle …
Read more5 Trading Psychology Lessons Every Trader Needs to Learn