The profit factor for a trader or trading system is determined by taking the gross profit of winning trades and dividing it by the gross losses from the trades that lost money for a chosen s... Read more
What is Positive Expectancy? The closest a trader can hope to come to a “Holy Grail” of profitable trading is a trading system with a positive expectancy. A trader’s focus should not b... Read more
If you are losing money in the markets or having a large drawdown in capital it could be a good idea to go back and return to first principles. First principles are the core concepts or acce... Read more
The fact that most traders don’t make money in the markets is no different a statistic than other fields. The majority of high school football players don’t go on to college sch... Read more
This is a Guest Post by AK of Fallible. In this video, we’re going to talk about 5 reasons why traders lose money in the stock market. We’ll also be covering different ways you c... Read more
While there are many ways to make money in the markets from long term buy and hold investors to day traders in Forex there are some common traits that emege after studying both succesful tra... Read more
Here are the first and most important lessons that a new trader needs to understand. All traders have to learn these lessons either the easy way and learn them from others or they can learn... Read more
Here are twelve great rules that can give new traders a quick list to see what the right questions to answer that will lead to good trading and also a guide to more experienced traders that... Read more
Most long term profitable traders possess a set of skills that lead to their consistent success over a long period of time. Here are the 10 skills that I have seen in common with so many suc... Read more
Everyone’s trading is different. No two traders are the same. Your watchlist, your signals, your chart software, your broker, and your commission costs are probably all very different... Read more
