Trading Psychology
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This year I visited ShowFx World in Kiev and I would like to tell you about the speech of Tom Hugard, one of the most successful traders in a very large hedge fund. I should point out right away that in this article I'm going to quote his words as I understood them for myself. I've realized once again that success in trading is determined by psychology, not by strategy. It's nice to hear another confirmation of my opinion from the lips of a professional of such a level. *The slides used in this article are taken from the author's presentation. Principles of 2% successful traders The first, most important principle that guides successful traders, is to buy the strong and discount the weak. What is this...
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As a coach I cooperate with a small financial company, a professional participant of the securities market, which, among other things, provides trust management of clients' money. We have one trader, let's call him Mikhail, who for quite a long time showed very good, and most importantly stable results on a mini-account (about 3000 $). He was able to consistently bring his account up to about 5 000$ for a few months, and then withdrew 2 000 $ and started over again, repeating his success over and over again. In the end, we all agreed that Michael has abilities and skills of a trader. After examining his statement, we saw a certain stability: a good equity curve,...
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What is a trading plan, why do I need one and how do I make one? A trader's trading plan can be as simple or as complex as you want. Of course, a plan that is too simple is not informative enough to successfully implement key rules and/or strategies during each trading session. Conversely, if the plan is too complicated, it will be difficult for you to stick to it, and you may eventually give up using it altogether. Therefore, you need to think through the best option so that it is not time-consuming, while being detailed enough for self-analysis. The main task of a trading plan is to keep you calm and relaxed during...
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How to become consistently successful in trading? To answer this question we must first understand what makes millions of traders unsuccessful - what makes them lose money? What prevents them from analyzing the market and placing orders correctly? Why they succumb to fear, gambling and abandon the rules of trading strategy and capital management? In this article you will learn how the science of human brain - neurobiology - explains these processes, what happens on the subconscious level and who intercepts the control of our behavior. What does a trader think? So, let's begin. The first thing worth knowing is "what we think. Where, in our head, does market analysis and decision making take place...
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I recently had a chance to talk to a trader who said he had a goal to increase his trading deposit from 150,000 to 250,000 rubles in about two months. The markets were kind to him, and he reached his goal even a few days earlier than planned. Now he has replenished the deposit, increasing it to 500,000 rubles. Lack of experience - the main problem of beginners His new goal is 1 000 000 rubles by the end of this year. Something tells me that this goal is unlikely to be achieved. The fact is that this guy is a rookie. He got to know the market only a few months ago, and so far...
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One of the key qualities possessed by people who are successful in a wide variety of fields is the ability to take full responsibility for all actions, actions and results, for every step in life. It is well known that only a very small percentage of traders actually become successful. To be among them, you need to work hard - on your discipline and psychology, risk management and trading plan, overcome your fears and greed, learn to manage your emotions. All of this requires an enormous desire, a willingness to keep moving forward after losses, a desire to change your old habits. And this is impossible without learning to take responsibility for the trading process and for...
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In the last article we started talking about a coaching session with one of our Trader's Club members. We talked about his desire to travel and the real need for it. To recap the topic of the session: "What are the traders' expectations from trading in the market and what prevents him from succeeding?" Fears from the outside: Testing brokers without interruption It's worth dividing a trader's fears and concerns into two components: external and internal. We will begin with the external ones, namely the desire to shift the responsibility for the losses to others. We're going to have a dialog with the trader. - What prevents you from being successful right now? After all, you have strategies, you've tested them, they bring...
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In this and the next article we will talk about the coaching session with one of the members of the Traders Club. The topic of the session was "What are traders' expectations from trading on the market, and what prevents traders from succeeding". It consisted of four parts: What goals do you set for yourself in life? Why and what are your expectations from trading in the market? What prevents you from moving forward - what fears and concerns? What do you need to do to reach your goals? These seemingly simple questions, but the problems are already evident at the very beginning. Setting a goal for the trader - half of the success In this case, the main desire of the participant of the session (let's call...
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One of the most difficult things for beginner traders to understand is a different format of earning money, an unstable profit. At , as in business, the money does not come in the form of a salary - every month, the same amount. Here profits alternate with a bad month, and one must get used to it. However, many beginners have these thoughts: "Ah, I earned only 10$ on this strategy, so I won't buy a BMW X6". Or vice versa: "Wow, I have made 130$ in one trade, if I trade a couple of times now, I can quit my job this month". You can lose your whole deposit in such a wave mentality. How ...
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As the unofficial statistics says, only 5-10% traders are successful in making money on the currency market, while the rest 90-95% simply lose their money. What is the reason? Is it because trading on financial markets is very complicated and not accessible for everybody? Or maybe the secret lies in the psychological approach? After all the psychology of people with money and people without money is very different. Let us provisionally divide all traders into two types - "rich" and "poor". The difference between "rich" and "poor" traders Despite the fact that for many people wealth is, roughly speaking", sitting on sacks of money, in fact it is not...
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Подавляющее большинство трейдеров-новичков в течение долгого времени тестируют свою стратегию на демо-счете, приобретая необходимые навыки и набираясь опыта. Рано или поздно начинающий трейдер задается вопросом – а не пора ли начинать торговлю на реальном депозите? Четкого временного шаблона нет, для каждого трейдера это время будет разным. Однако, для перехода с демо-счета на реальный депозит необходимо соблюдение определенных условий. Сложности перехода трейдера с демо на реал В первую очередь начинающий трейдер должен осознавать, что при кажущейся идентичности, торговля на реальном счете отличается от торговли на демо-счете. Для начала, нужно побороть свою неуверенность, однако, при этом помнить, что лучший способ борьбы с…
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На сложном пути к получению стабильной прибыли начинающего трейдера подстерегает множество препятствий. Одной из таких проблем является боязнь пропустить торговый сигнал — точку входа в рынок. Зачастую, новички получают убыток из-за срабатывания стоп-лосса только из-за того, что боятся «прозевать» вход в рынок, сулящий потенциальную прибыль. Погоня за неполученной прибылью от пропущенных торговых сигналов Видя поступление признаков, обозначающих возможную точку открытия позиции, многие трейдеры-новички входят в рынок еще до окончательного формирования четкого торгового сигнала к открытию позиции. Это происходит из-за боязни того, что рынок пойдет в нужном направлении, а прибыльный вход в рынок будет упущен. Очень часто подобные «ранние» входы заканчиваются…
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Unofficial statistics is widespread on the Forex market, according to which only 5% traders succeed in trading. So how to join their ranks? It is very simple - it is necessary just not to do as 95% traders do, but to follow rules, which are followed by profitable 5% traders. What exactly must a trader do to receive stable profit on the currency market? 1. Look for confirmation of a trading signal The more factors that point to buy or sell an asset coincide, the more accurate and reliable the trading signal is. These can be both fundamental factors such as the release of the US Jobless Claims data and the NonFarm payroll report.
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One of my main objectives in my work with traders is to help people understand what trading is in general, what it is a profession, a kind of activity, what are the peculiarities of this occupation. And not just to provide information about how the human psyche works. In addition to all this (of course, this is important material), there is also such a component as "trader's mentality", which, to my great regret, is often neglected. Beginner traders are especially guilty of it. And because they ignore this important component, they will never reach the point in their professional development where they can provide themselves with predictable results in the market. Not to predict market behavior, but to achieve predictable...
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Fear is a natural emotion for a trader. Many traders are afraid to open a trade when they enter the market - afraid to lose money, not to close a position for fear of missing out on a profit. Fear is one of the main enemies of a trader, and to conquer it, you have to know your enemy. Let's talk about three main fears of a trader. Probably there is no trader who does not know that high profitability of trading is compensated with high risks that can cause loss of funds. In theory, everyone is ready for that. In reality every loss made on a deposit puts an enormous psychological pressure on a trader. Having received several losing trades, trader is afraid to enter...
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Emotional pain is one of the most common ways our brain reacts to loss. And it doesn't matter to it exactly what is lost. We basically react to loss much more emotionally than we do to gain. That's how our brain is programmed. In this article I want to look at several variants of internal dialogues that traders have with themselves when they lose money in the market. The information is more about how not to do and what not to say to yourself in case of a loss, so as not to increase the painful effect and negative feelings associated with it. The bad question is, "Why is this happening to me?" This question makes you mentally...
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Most traders know that trading psychology is the most important piece of the puzzle. In searching for the answer to the question "how to become a profitable trader" you are bound to stumble upon your own psychology. However, most traders avoid working on themselves in every possible way. Understanding of this necessity comes later, with time. However, you have to pay for this understanding not only with lost time but also with your own money and nerves. For some people the price is so high that the very fact of understanding no longer solves anything. Neither money nor energy left to return to the market and continue the process of professional development. The price for understanding was too high. It's hard to get into your mind If your trading strategy...
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Who are you? What are your strengths and weaknesses? Is your native element universal chaos, or do you need order and stability? When it comes to trading, knowing the answers to these questions is even more important than having any trading system and strategy you can think of. Real traders find markets for themselves At its core, trading is a psychological game. And no amount of reading books, no amount of studying trading systems and taking trading courses will lead to success if your trading style contradicts your personality structure. Contrary to popular belief, successful traders do not change their approaches, in order to adapt to the market. Rather the opposite, they...
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When you lose money as a result of trading, and it's bound to happen more than once, ask yourself these five questions. They will help you get back to a calm state much faster. One of the biggest psychological problems (if not the biggest one) that absolutely all traders face while trading is losing money. Sometimes these losses really are very big and extremely painful. And it does not matter what they are caused by - lack of experience, inattention or a trivial mistake in position calculation. Even if you have done everything correctly, losses can occur. Moreover, just because you seem to have done everything correctly, but still lost money as a result, such losses are perceived by us...
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In our previous article we discussed the issue of choosing a trading strategy based on a trader's psycho-type. Now, as an extension of the topic, let's see what happens if you do nothing of the above and trade anything and everything without taking your own psychological peculiarities into account. The typical beginner's way It is a bit sad to write about it, because that is the way most people go. And this despite the fact that tons of materials have been written on this subject. Many of you have probably gone down this path as well, knowing full well that this time it will be different. If you're just beginning to master the profession of a trader, I hope that after reading this article you'll be able to...
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