Info!! Summit Trading Psychology Posts - 2015

Below are piece of employment yesteryear trading psychology posts from during 2015.  If you're looking for posts on trading methods, cheque out the Trading Techniques Page.  Other posts on trading psychology tin dismiss live on flora on the page for early on posts, too equally the pages for 2016 as well as 2017.  If y'all can't uncovering information on your topic inwards the posts, endeavor Googling "" as well as the cite of your topic.  That volition unremarkably effect inwards pulling upwardly a few of the nearly 5000 posts on the blog.  For greater depth on a given topic, y'all powerfulness cheque out the curated Forbes posts and the trading psychology books page.

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TOP TRADING PSYCHOLOGY POSTS FROM 2015

*  Risk Management equally a Best Practice

*  Meditation equally a Best Practice

*  Risk Intelligence as well as Trading Success

*  Training Yourself inwards Pattern Recognition

*  Trading equally Entrepreneurship

*  Trading equally Training inwards Mental Toughness

*  Incorporating Self-Control Routines During Trading Hours

*  The Three R's of Trading Success

*  Why Disciplined Traders Make Bad Decisions

*  A Simple Strategy for Developing Your Trading

*  Keys to Process Driven Trading

*  Solving Your Trading Problems yesteryear Identifying Your Trading Solutions

*  Three Ingredients inwards Trading Success

*  Why Promiscuity Doesn't Work inwards Trading

*  Why Trading is So Difficult

*  The Single Most Important Trait of Successful Traders

*  How to Stay inwards the Game yesteryear Taking Intelligent Risks

*  The Greatest Mistake Losing Traders Make

*  Three Best Practices of Trading

*  Two Excellent Predictors of Trading Success

*  Best Practices for Dealing With Drawdowns


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Info!! Pushing Our Trading Boundaries

I had an interesting sense recently.  Until the snowfall of the final few days, I had been doing my jogging outdoors.  It's slap-up exercise, in addition to it is real effective inwards clearing out the caput in addition to starting the day.

With the recent snow, I went dorsum to the treadmill in addition to resumed my jogging.  The slap-up affair almost the treadmill is that it continuously measures pulse rate, calories burned, distance traveled, pump rate, in addition to more.  As I replicated my outdoor run on the treadmill, an uncomfortable reality hitting me:  I was non coming only about my target pump charge per unit of measurement for optimal aerobic benefit.  In uncomplicated terms, my outdoor runs were non pushing me nearly difficult enough.

That's the slap-up affair almost keeping score:  there's far less room for making faulty assumptions almost your performance.  In trading, nosotros mean value we're working difficult at improvement when inwards fact we're non really breaking a sweat: we're non genuinely pushing ourselves exterior our comfort zones.  When I gave a recent verbalize to the SMB traders, I was asked almost patience in addition to dependent in addition to proposed the next exercise:  calculate the median discover of trades you've placed each twenty-four hours over the past times 2 months.  Then split upwards that discover past times 2 in addition to bound yourself to that discover of trades for the day.  Once you lot hitting that limit, you're done for the day.

Now that is a fleck similar getting on the treadmill.  We're no longer relying on a subjective intention to merchandise to a greater extent than selectively; we're keeping grade in addition to forcing ourselves to really *be* to a greater extent than selective.  If you've averaged iv trades per twenty-four hours in addition to directly tin plough over notice solely get got two, you've created a province of affairs where you lot purpose one-half your bullets for the twenty-four hours if you lot get got a unmarried marginal, low-quality trade.  Knowing you lot solely get got 2 trades to brand during the twenty-four hours forces you lot to await for the best opportunities in addition to to kicking the bucket along pulverisation dry out for possible after opportunities.

When I'm on the treadmill, I can't avoid looking at the hide that tells me if I'm cheating or not.  When you're limiting the discover of trades, you lot can't overtrade in addition to somehow convince yourself that you're working on your game.  There's a maxim that verbalize is cheap, but it's not.  It's quite expensive if it deludes us into thinking we're making progress when inwards fact we're non making sufficient efforts.  Bella was correct to lay into some of the traders, only every bit I was correct to chastise myself in addition to double downward on sticking alongside the treadmill.  If I desire to clear my caput in addition to larn fresh air, great, become for a jog.  But if I desire to operate out in addition to develop myself, in addition to hence dammit kicking the bucket along score, rails objective reality, in addition to really figure out if I'm genuinely developing.

It's all almost purpose it or lose it:  if it doesn't grow, it stagnates.  And if nosotros don't interruption a sweat in addition to force our boundaries, nosotros never genuinely grow.

Further Reading:  The Greatest Mistake Losing Traders Make
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Info!! Growing Your Blueprint Recognition Equally A Trader

A concept key to trading is that of designing in addition to designing recognition.  Different approaches to trading frame patterns differently, but all focus upon relationships that are deemed to hold out meaningful.  After all, whatever detail configuration alongside marketplace elements tin flame occur in addition to reoccur through random happenstance.  It is when patterns occur for understandable reasons that nosotros honour them meaningful.  We may or may non hold out able to predict when that designing volition occur next, but that is non necessary for successful trading.  If nosotros buy the farm really sensitive to meaningful patterns in addition to their myriad expressions, nosotros tin flame position their occurrence equally they unfold.  Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 psychologist, for instance, powerfulness non hold out able to predict when a patient volition adjacent sense a depressive episode, but tin flame buy the farm highly attuned to occasions inward which depression is starting to laid upwardly in.  Similarly, when couples brand progress inward their counseling, they tin flame recognize patterns to their arguments in addition to circumvent those past times doing something to a greater extent than constructive.

Many active traders expect at a really limited release of markets--often, exclusively those that they are trading or thinking of trading--and in addition to then they immature lady of import patterns that occur *among* markets.  These intermarket relationships oftentimes reverberate macroeconomic factors that are driving the participation of large marketplace players.  Recognizing when those relationships are waxing in addition to waning tin flame supply of import clues equally to whether detail marketplace moves are probable to continue.

I've been reading a large--and excellent--book from John Netto called The Global Macro Edge.  It touches upon a release of worthwhile ideas, including the importance of viewing functioning (one's ain in addition to those of markets) inward risk-adjusted terms.  One thought I especially liked was the ongoing tracking of correlations inward the cost movements alongside markets equally a means of identifying marketplace regimes in addition to shifts inward those regimes.  The same concept is valuable inward tracking correlations of moves alongside equity sectors.  When nosotros encounter dramatic changes inward correlations, those patterns tin flame alarm us to the emergence of of import themes that are driving marketplace action.  For example, subsequently the recent election, nosotros saw dramatic co-movement alongside equity sectors (industrials in addition to financials versus higher yielding sectors) in addition to markets (US dollar, rates, developed markets versus emerging ones).  New flows were coming into markets, in addition to the patterns of correlations alerted us to the drivers of those flows.  

Let's combine 2 of Netto's ideas in addition to imagine a province of affairs inward which your dashboard is tracking the risk-adjusted returns of dissimilar markets (a means of tracking character of tendency behavior) *and* the correlations alongside markets.  The combination would state you lot when shifting correlations are manifesting themselves equally growing trends.  That would hold out sweetness for trend-following macro traders.  It would likewise supply useful alerts equally to when markets are becoming choppy in addition to less patterned.  After all, it's the designing of patterns that ultimately defines the chance laid upwardly for traders.

Further Reading:  The Greatest Mistake Losing Traders Make
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