Self-discipline is the ability to control your actions through inner will power regardless of your emotions and impulses. It’s the skill to overcome the temptation to violate your inner principles. Self-discipline enables you to pursue your goals, follow your own ethics, and be the person you want to be. Someone guided by self-discipline uses their […]
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While traders can’t stop feeling emotions because they are human, they can remove acting on their emotions in their trading. Feeling emotions and letting them influence your entries, exits, and position sizing are two different things. How do traders remove emotions? Many new traders will find the most difficult thing about trading is not the
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Here are 50 of the best psychology books every published based on the book 50 Psychology Classics Second Edition: Your shortcut to the most important ideas on the mind, personality, and human nature. by Tom Butler-Bowdon. 1 Alfred Adler Understanding Human Nature (1927) 2 Gordon Allport The Nature of Prejudice (1954) 3 Albert Bandura Self-Efficacy:
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Think and Grow Rich is one of the best selling psychology of wealth books of all time. It contains some of the best principles for creating the right mindset for wealth of any book ever written and was the book that practically began the self-help movement. While getting rich by building a business or growing
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Wall Street goes through cycles based on the primary human emotions of greed and fear. There is a wide spectrum and phases of emotional behavior inside these two main drivers of investor behavior. The below Wall Street cheat sheet shows the impulses that drive each phase of a market cycle. The best solution to managing
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To be a profitable trader you need three things: A trading system with an edge. Proper position sizing per trade. The right trading mindset. If you don’t have the right mindset for trading then the other two will not work. Here is a trader cheat sheet of the principles you must understand to create the
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A risk management process for a trading system is not just math but also includes human psychology. The psychology of execution is just as important to profitability as the trading dynamics of the entries and exits of a trading method. Humans have fear, greed, and egos and these elements can interfere with the process of
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Trading is about mastering three different areas: A trading system with an edge. Using the right position sizing and risk management parameters for the system. Having the right discipline and mindset to execute a trading system consistently over the long term. Developing the right trading psychology is about how you think about trading execution and
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Mental accounting is also called psychological accounting as it tries to describe how people categorize and label financial income and outgo of money. This behavioral economic theory was first proposed by Richard Thaler. Mental accounting quantifies the emotional and mental connections made with money specifically directed to a budget and specific savings like investing, trading,
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The fear and greed index was created by CNNMoney as an indicator to quantify the degree of emotions that investors are feeling about buying stocks in the current moment. This index tries to give a measurement of the market sentiment on a scale of fear and greed. Fear generally takes place during downtrends and market
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An equity curve is a visual representation of the trend and variation in the value of an investment or trading account shown on a chart over a specified period of time. An equity curve that has an over all uptrend and is near all time highs usually shows that the investing or trading strategy used is profitable
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This is a guest post by Tino @TradersReality. There have many associations that martial arts have with probably every endeavor in life. The simple reason is that both require discipline. Now you have more than likely read the basics of marital arts is preserving your character, having the discipline not to react when not required,
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There are two different methods for reasoning, inductive and deductive. While deductive reasoning looks for certainties, inductive reasoning is used when a circumstance is seen as supplying evidence that a conclusion could be true. The belief in a conclusion based on inductive reasoning is highly probable and based on evidence that can be seen and
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The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias identified in the world of psychology. This effect is identified when people believe their intelligence and knowledge is adequate and correct when in reality they are ignorant and inexperienced in the area they think they are competent in. In reality, they are not only ignorant and blind to
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Confirmation bias is a psychological filter that causes people to interpret information in a way that proves or at least confirms what they believe is true or what they believe will happen in the future. Confirmation bias is a kind of mental bias and is the wrong way to use reason to arrive at the
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This is a Guest Post by Liam from PriceActioNinja.com. A professional Forex trader is not identified by having multiple trading screens or highly complex trading strategies. Instead, what separates winning, professional traders from amateur, losing traders is the mindset they approach trading with and the actions they take to improve and refine their trading performance.
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This is a Video Guest Post by @AKFallible. I hope everyone had a great 4th of Julyweekend! I’m real glad to be in America. Real glad for electricity and water too. This gratitude helps in trading as well. You’ll see how in the video below.
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This is a guest post from Tino @tradersreality. This article originally appeared on tradersreality.com and is reposted here with permission. Anyone entering into the trading world, usually creates the illusiion that once you start, then all your dreams and desires will manifest and you can go on to become your own boss and do whatever
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This is a guest post from Tino @tradersreality. This article originally appeared on tradersreality.com and is reposted here by request. Everyone knows, the goal of a trader is to make money. Although this is the general consensus, having this frame of mind usually leads you to frustration and loss of money. So how do we
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I appreciate one of my Facebook trading friends letting me share his post about the lessons he learned from his trading mentor. A trading mentor shares his 35 years of lessons repeatedly pounded into his student’s heads: 1. Assess the reward to risk ratio 2. Do not get in unless you can control the risk.
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