Trading Psychology

Your overall trading psychology consists of your holistic attitude - the way with which you approach & view trading the markets: Your psychology when trading is definitely an important part of successful trading. Your psychology consists of your attitude - the way with which you approach and view trading. Most of my recent trading rants are about psychology. To trade successfully, you must respect the markets for what they are and understand its relationship with you. (Read "The Market is Against Me)

Trading Stocks is Gambling After All... So Why is Gambling Bad?

Just be yourself when you trade the markets... it will eventually lead you to success: Imagine, you are in the school yard again - set to impress that girl or guy you liked. You go up to them, pretending to be something you're not. You may fool them the first or second time. But in the long term, can you keep up the act? Can you keep living being someone you're not? It's the same in the stock markets. Each one of us has different financial situations and goals. You cannot take the same level of risks that I take, and I wouldn't take the same risks you would take. If you cannot be true to yourself in the markets you will find it harder to find your niche.

Is the Stock Markets Ever Against you? No, the market is never against you. Trade the markets, you trade against yourself. As a trader, do you ever get the feeling that the market is ever against you? When I trade the stock markets often, sometimes I start to personify the markets. This happens when I’ve had either a string of losses or a string or profitable trades. When almost all of my trades have been profitable - one after another you begin to feel confident. The market is your best buddy. The market is on your side. You are very confident... and are prone to mistakes. Then your string of trading losses are piling up. The market has become your worst enemy. The market is against you.

I Pity the Fool who Trades with No Stop Losses... And That Fool Was Me. After a series of losses, you start to realise that stop losses are a trader's best friend. And that's exactly what is happening to my account as of late. But it doesn't matter - you can't expect to profit all the time... all that matters is that when your trades are profitable - you let them run and when they are not - cut them short.

The truth and nothing but the truth about trading the share markets or any other markets for that matter: I was talking to a colleague earlier today about share trading. We discussed why prices go up and down, how traders make and lose money on the markets - especially how I’ve made money and lost money in the markets as well as share trading as gambling. Share trading is another opportunity out of so many out there to make money. To experienced traders, the money is there for the taking. For brokers, dealers and market makers it is a growth industry worth investing in, with market makers like CMC Markets and IG Markets expanding rapidly worldwide and banks like Macquarie starting to deal products like CFDs and rumours that ComSec may join in. But in our discussion we came to one interesting conclusion. That conclusion was that trading shares isn’t really productive. Trading shares doesn’t create anything useful: it is simply a transfer of ownership and funds from one party to another.