YOUR MARKET OPPONENT
Most traders are under the illusion that their greatest opponent in the market are the skilled pros out there who are waiting to gobble them up. While they are worthy opponents, there is an opponent even more worthy, if you go to the mirror, you will find them. The biggest enemy to trading successfully is YOU and your mindset.
The thing that usually demolishes traders besides getting into the game way too early (while they are still very, very green) is their lack of discipline and patience. The hardest thing in the market, especially if you are a natural Type A personality, is the waiting.
The natural type A makes the perfect forex victim, because we like to see things move and like to get things accomplished. While this is a very desirable trait in most other aspects of life, it can be to your determent in forex.
It is the incredible volatility and fast pace of forex that attracts us in the first place, but when the market is stagnant, it can make us nuts, often causing us to make premature ill-timed entries.
That is why it is essential to your long term success for you to perfect your WAIT!!!!!
What are you waiting???
For proper trade set-ups!
Trades in harmony with your trend will usually be the most profitable and give the most reliable signals.
LEARN YOUR CANDLESTICK PATTERNS!
LEARN YOUR TRENDS!!!
LEARN YOUR SUPPORT/RESISTANCE!!!!!
LEARN ABOUT MARKET RHYTHM!!!
LEARN MARKET PSYCHOLOGY!!!!!
AFTER LEARNING ALL OF THAT.
YOU MUST PERFECT THE ART OF WAITING !!!!!!!! (^_^)
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QUESTIONS AFTER THE HIT
When you take a hit, you have got to think your way through it logically.
Questions to ask yourself when you have taken a hit.
What is the lesson here???
What did I learn????
How can I avoid this next time????
What is my strategy the next time I encounter this situation????
Did I remember to pat myself on the back for the good trades this month?????
Did I remind myself that I have had many more successes this month??????
Did I remind myself that this is just an opportunity to do it better next time?????
Did I use proper discipline????????
Did I wait for a proper trade set-up??????
Did I follow my trading rules????????
How long am I going to wallow here???????
Did I remind myself that the market is very generous and will always give me plenty of opportunities for profit???????
Do I have more money now than I did at the beginning of the month????
If YES, you are ok.
You are out to win the war, though you may lose a few battles.
If you have gained 90 dollars for the month and you lose $8,
then you are ahead of the game by $82.
If the answer is NO and you are consistently taking hits,
then STOP and RETHINK your strategy, There is something WRONG!
No one can tell you how to trade; all they can do is share their experience and you will have to tweak it to fit your trading style. Thinking through your losses logically will give you the best advantage over reacting emotionally .
NEVER EVER USE A LOSS AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO BEAT YOURSELF UP. IT IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO GAIN AND INCREASE YOUR KNOWLEDGE
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TRADING PREDICTABLE
There are times when the market is murky, cloudy and choppy, but there are the sweet times when the market is crystal clear like a cool refreshing spring. That is when you want to be in it. Many traders try to swim in all market waters. This is a big mistakes. Dirty waters are full of sharks.
IF YOU DON'T CLEARLY SEE AN ADVANTAGE; DO NOT TRADE!!!!!
IF YOU CAN NOT SEE A TRADE SET-UP, IT IS PROBABLY BECAUSE THERE IS NOT ONE.
You may wait a whole day for a market set-up, never to get one. That is when traders get antsy and agitated and begin creating trades from thin air. Mostly ending up on the wrong side of the trade. WHY gamble with your capital like that?????????? THAT IS DUMB.
When the market is lost, let it wander, but you stay out. It is hard, I know, as all of your emotions are screaming at you not to miss out. Miss out on what??????
What you are missing out on is the set-up for the BIG KILL. SOMETIMES THERE IS NO TRADE and if you are wise, you except that and go find some other way to occupy your time. If you are no a pro, don't play the out-smart-the-market game, it will make road kill out of you fast. You may get away with it a time or two, but you can be sure that eventually it will catch up with you, because market strategies don't stay the same. It only takes that one 200-400 pip shake out day to change your world for the worst.
Trade when your trades are more predictable than not. Trade when the waters are cool, refreshing and crystal clear. Trade when the market is sending you a VERY CLEAR invitaion to jump in. If the water is murky, you can believe there are sharks. SWIM AT YOUR OWN RISK !!!!
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TRADING EMOTIONS
The hardest thing to master as a trader once you understand Market Rhythm is not the market, it is YOU. Emotional trading will break you fast.
Trading is not hard, it is mastering your emotions that is. Trading will teach you more about your human short coming than visiting a psychiatrist. As a trader, you must learn the discipline of waiting for proper market set-ups. That is hard!
Your EMOTIONS are screaming for you to jump in or you will miss out. NOT TRUE!! If you miss one trade set-up, the market is generous and will give you another. Learn to trade in harmony with your trend and with proper signals.
The emotions that are deadly to your trading success.
REVENGE, we all know it and have done it. It happens when you are tricked by the market and decide to take another trade before looking at the big picture, then BAM you are on the wrong side of the trade again. Pissed off and refusing to move while your money is going further down the drain. Scared to let go for fear that you are going to get tricked again.
PANIC, that is when you lack the confidence to enter or ride a profitable trade. This happens when you have taken some hits and now you lack the confidence to trade profitably.
IMPATIENCE, this happens when you can't wait for a proper trade set-up and jump on a price hiccup/retracement, often finding yourself on the wrong side of the trade.
ANGER, you know that feeling that comes over you when you have taken a hit or two and you want to kill your computer.
SELF PITY, when you come to the market hoping for crumbs and get none, and can't see why THEY won't let you have just a little bit.
DEPRESSION, something perhaps outside of the market has you at an extreme low point.
INDIFFERENCE, it happens when you have gotten hit so many times that you just don't care any more because no matter what you can't win any way.
All of these emotions work hard against you clouding your clarity and give other traders the advantage over you.
If you are experiencing any of these emotions when you enter your platform; abandon your trading until you have yourself under control and have the clarity of mind to trade. Not doing so greatly increases your chances of handing your money over to a trader who is more emotionally fit and controlled than you are.
We are all human and it happens to us all, but what weighs heavy in your mind will often weigh heavily in your pocket.
Come to your trading platform, well rested, focused and ready to trade. You may take an occasional hit; SO WHAT it is a LESSON. We all get them and if we learn the lesson that the loss has taught us; it will make us much better traders.
DO NOT TRADE YOUR EMOTIONS!!!!!----
TRADE WHAT YOU SEE ON YOUR CHART!!!!
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CAN YOU BEAT THE SYSTEM ??
Can you beat the system ??
NO!, but you can still make great money. There is no humanly way that you can beat the system, but you can make a very comfortable and profitable living from forex. Forex has a language of it's own and in order to have a glimpse of success, you have got to learn the language. The better you master and translate the language, the more successful you become.
What is this strange language????
It is the language of the charts. It doesn't matter whether you interpret candlesticks or bars ( I have a strong preference for candles), you must learn to properly interpret this secret chart language of price action. Your charts are the only indicator that is telling you the real right now truth.
The only disadvantage to the charts that you see is that you can not see what is going on behind the scenes; but many times if you are properly interpreting your charts, you will glean clues about the possible direction of the market.
Even with the knowledge of this secret mysterious chart language of price action, you can still get tricked. It happens.
Why ?????
Because the house always has and will keep the advantage. You can only hope that your interpretation of the language of the charts will be profitable for you most of the times. If you are properly interpreting this language most of the time, you will do very, very well as long as you don't allow your losses to run forever.
Even after some traders become fluent in this price action language, they allow their losses to run and cut their profits short. THIS IS BACKWARDS and WRONG. The profits are suppose to run and the losers are suppose to be cut short. As traders, we all know if we had cut that trade short when we saw the market turn against us, we would have come out with a small loss as opposed to the crippling monster we ended up with. Don't allow your losses to run free. It is up to you when you are comfortable cutting them, but don't allow them to take over.
LEARN YOUR CHART LANGUAGE!
Going to your local library and picking up Steve Nison's book is a great place to start.
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SUPPORT BOUNCE
Price will only fall so far before you get a bounce off of or near a support. Price WILL NOT fall indefinitely. Be extra careful when price makes a new low because one or two things are going to happen, it will either keep falling or it will bounce. More than likely, it will make a make a strong bounce.Why????? because all of the sellers have gotten on board to sell. When there are no more sellers, the only logical thing to happen is for the buyers to come in and buy in force, creating a strong upwards bounce, trapping the sellers at the bottom.
Price falls strongly as long as there are sellers, but when the sellers are all gone BAM!!!!!! you have an upward explosion with nothing to slow the force of the powerful move upward. Now many of the traders trapped at the bottom are also forced to sell, creating more momentum for the upward move and prices continue to rise.
When you make an all new low and you get sideways action. Wait it out until you are sure you know where price is headed. If you get trapped, free yourself as soon as you can even if it means taking a small loss. It is better to be upset that you missed out on a great trade than to find yourself trapped in a trade that you wish you hadn't taken.
REMEMBER SUPPORT = BOUNCE, until price shows you differently. No matter what, wait for proper reversal/continuation signals near support before you enter the trade and please wait for your candle to close before making your trading decision. Those few pips that you think you will gain by beating out your competition are NOT WORTH IT.
All of the pros know to wait for an advantageous set-up and so should you (^_^)
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TRICK CANDLES
There are two very tricky candles that I must warn you about. Both are part of the umbrella group. The first is the shooting star. The shooting star comes at the top on an uptrend and has a shadow twice the size of the real body. The thing about the shooting star is that it opens near the bottom of the candle goes up to create the illustration of a strong bullish candle, quickly turns on you, and closes near it's open. It can be bullish or bearish, but a bearish shooting star is stronger and more likely to create a reversal than a bullish shooting star.
A shooting star happens when the bulls are running strong with the ball , and it looks like they are going to score when the bears come in and slam them at the last minute. Many times the bears take over then run the ball the other way. Sometimes there is a fight and there is a sideways standoff for a while.
The hammer is the other trick candle that you want to be aware of. A hammer come at the end of a downtrend and will mislead you with the idea that it is going to continue in a bearish fashion before price turns traitor on you. It is called a hammer because it looks like a hammer. A hammer opens near the top of the candle, falls strong before reversing on you, creating a lower shadow that is twice the size of it's real body . When you see a hammer form, it is a sign that you need to protect your profits.The thing that is detrimental about the shooting star/hammer is that if you enter either before it closes, you will more than likely find yourself on the far end of the WRONG SIDE of the trade. If you are using candles as trading flagships, always let them close before you jump into a trade. Impatience in the face of either of these candles will break you fast.
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