Category: Psychology
Turning the corner – what people don’t get and why
Well, well… what’s this all about now. I’m afraid you’ll have to read on. And if your dog needs a bath (and I don’t know if you who reads this has a dog and I couldn’t care less), then go bathe the dog! If you have time, look below at results of a true change in performance following a change of strategy. Some time ago Newtrader.club said to all new traders that change takesRead More
Mind the gap
Gaps are traditionally taken by new traders and some gurus, to mean that price will continue on balance, in the direction of the gap. In financial trading that is only true some of the time. Even if it is true, say 55% of the time, what does it mean for new traders? Nothing! Why? Because the only issue in profitability is how a new trader controls their acceptable loss (aka stop loss). The chart ofRead More
Mission Impossible – early notice.
What if there was a way to take money out of the markets (legally of course) without having to figure anything?! That must be the ‘Holy Grail’, some will say! And others will say IMPOSSIBLE!! And if you found the Impossible, would you share it? I don’t think so. Newtrader is investigating just such a Holy Grail. Yes – this is Mission Impossible! It starts with the chart below (which you click on to seeRead More
Protected: Rewrite your psychology, else you’re doomed.
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The limitations of demo trading: of pain and gain
Demo or paper trading is very advantageous to new traders in learning much of the basics of financial trading. This site strongly recommends all new traders to blow up demo accounts of any size at least 5 times!! One of the issues with that, is that new traders may come to feel demoralised and then decide that they “can’t do this”. Well that could well be true. Note however, that nearly every successful trader hasRead More
Desensitisation, confidence and the crash
Following a winning run of trades a new trader is likely to think or feel, “I can do this!” This sort of feeling is like to come especially if they were big wins emerging from difficult trades that were not expected to win. We are human. There is that sense of victory over difficult circumstances – and a sense of improved performance or skill. However, many a new trader will have experienced a run ofRead More
Nerves of steel – like Formula 1 racing.
Many new traders are unaware that they actually need nerves of steel. Some will argue that ‘nerves’ are not part of the equation – if one is truly in the so-called fearless state. But hang on – on the way to achieving that state, there will be ‘nerves’. It’s no good expert traders telling new traders to lose their nerves. After a new trader gets his nerves of steel, then he actually realises there isRead More
Dreamers exploited
The more I look around the net on trading courses, the more I come to think that there is a big scam going on. Some of the supposed greatest traders out there are selling trainings and courses. They’re selling dreams for the most part. Look, I just don’t get it – if you’re making millions why would you wish to sell new traders whatever opportunity at £1799 reduced from £9977? Do you really need theRead More
The Zanger interviews
These interviews may seem meaningless to new traders but in reality they’re worth millions! See also: Who the devil is Dan Zanger and why should anybody care?
Managers of chaos
The following thoughts came to me in the middle of the night. The natural human tendency when we see a pattern is to predict/expect what may happen next. This is a powerful ‘unconscious’ urge. Markets are chaos. We may see patterns in the chaos. All chaotic systems form patterns. The patterns are meaningless to the chaotic system. Patterns have meaning for us, in that they represent probabilities. But the chaos does not obey patterns. It’sRead More