By Linda Raschke Many traders quickly come to acknowledge that despite being familiar with winning strategies, systems, and money management techniques, trading success is dependent on your psychological state of mind. If you’re a trader just starting out, where do you find the initial confidence to pull the trigger? How do you deal with the
In a recent post, I suggested that we may lose discipline in trading for the right reasons, not wrong ones. We naturally gravitate toward the intersection of our values, our abilities, and our skills: those arenas in which we can do good and do well.
Those who have read my features know I base the vast majority of my trading decisions on technical indicators and chart analysis–and also on market psychology. However, I do not ignore certain fundamentals that could impact the markets I’m trading. Neither should you.
Forex, the foreign currency exchange market, can be a lucrative one indeed for traders skilled in its dynamics. This worldwide network of government central banks, commercial and investment banks, hedge funds, international corporations and brokerage firms enables traders to capitalize on the rise and fall of a currency dollar volume that exceeds $1.4 trillion every
My style is based on the “Taylor Trading Technique”, a short-term method for trading daily price movements that relies entirely on odds and percentages . It is a method as opposed to a system. Very few people can blindly follow a system, though many find it easier to be discretionary in a systematic way.