Did you see it coming?

I would like to ask any reader if your intuition predicted either of the following; the sharp drop in the major indexes, the sharp rise in the US Dollar, or the sharp rise in the Japanese Yen (unwinding of carry trades)?

Intuition is our most powerful sense, it enables us to read someone’s energy frequency (good mood/bad mood), before they even walk through the door. It also gives us the ability to assess and analyze a situation at a sub-conscious level before other factors become involved.

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Will controlling fear make us better traders?

In the previous posts in this series we have focussed on fear, as it is often cited as having the biggest impact on our trading psychology.

I would certainly tend to agree, but it is not the only emotion traders need to master.

In this post I’m going to talk about a couple of sins that traders also need to be aware of if they want to learn how to trade profitably.

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Know your enemy!

So far we’ve concentrated on looking at how fear and greed can affect a traders ability to follow their trading plan, and then we started deconstructing those fears piece by piece.

In this post you’ll find some more strategies for dealing with the fears that may be sabotaging your trading.

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Controlling Fear and Greed

In my last post on trading psychology we started looking at some of the indvidual fears that traders can have, and also some of the effects greed can have as well. But if you missed reading it, click Understanding Fear and Greed and read that post first before reading on.

In this post, we’re going to start looking at how you may control fear and greed, so I hope you have your list of fears handy as we might be able to cross some of them off.

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Understanding Fear and Greed

In a previous post we talked about lack of a trading plan being one of the reasons traders lose money while trading.

In this post we’re going to talk about one of the other reasons; and that is the inability to trade profitably due to emotions such as fear and greed.

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What’s in a name?

Trading and investing can mean different things to different people, so let me share with you the way I define these terms.

I’m sure the dictionary and tax office will have alternative definitions, but to me it’s about the involvement of the trader in actually trading.

Let’s start by looking at decision making.

To me, a trader is someone who… (more…)