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Feb 22
What Psychometrics Reveal About Your Trading Performance
The uncertainty of the trading environment is highly challenging. To be profitable requires knowing with confidence how to consistently perform at your best. Even though most traders know what to do in order to minimize their losses and eliminate those blowout trades, statistics show that they find it impossible to do what they know. In …
Jan 25
Why Beating Yourself Up Enforces Bad Trading Behaviour
When you beat yourself up for missed opportunities, letting a loss run into the abyss, cutting your profits short or anything that you think you should have done differently, you are stuck in the problem. All you can see is the problem and hence you will repeat the same mistake over and over again, beating …
Jan 18
The Problem in Your Trading is Not the Problem
When a trader has a proven methodology or consistently creates results better than 55% win/loss ratio and they still don’t end up in the black at the end of the month, it’s never about their trading. The problem is not the problem, you need to find out what is the driving force behind the problem….
Jan 18
Some Keanu Reeves Wisdom
Keanu Reeves writes.. “My friend’s mom has eaten healthy all her life. Never ever consumed alcohol or any “bad” food, exercised every day, very limber, very active, took all supplements suggested by her doctor, never went in the sun without sunscreen and when she did it was for as short a period as possible- so …
Jan 17
Is it a good thing to think those thoughts you are thinking?
Most traders don’t think through their entries enough and think too much whether to get out of a trade or not… Try it the other way around and see your results improving :-p