I’m not going to turn this week’s email into yet another “what to do in the face of Covid-19” missive. I’m sure your inbox is crammed full of that kind of stuff already. Mine certainly is! What I’m going to suggest instead is that...
As traders we’re taught to perform in an almost robotic way. We each have our system for approaching the markets and here are many different systems. But is such a ‘mechanical’ way of doing things really best? In 99% of cases I think it is. But I...
Let me tell you about ‘scaled exits’. There is nothing new about scaled exits. You’ll read about the old masters of trading scaling out of their trades, they were doing it a hundred years ago or more. And scaling has always been a permanent fixture...
I first set off trying to find my own way through the trading jungle, just like you probably have. I bought the books, followed the ‘gurus’, set about looking for the Holy Grail (you know, the one system to rule them all!) But it was only when I stepped back and took...
Let me tell you a bit about Richard Dennis… If you’ve not heard of him before Dennis was one of the guys behind the infamous ‘Turtle Traders’ experiment. He had a bet with his partner William Eckhardt that traders were made, not born, and he...
Let’s face it – it’s so tempting to find amazing entry points for trades… But how much time do you spend considering your management of open positions? The management of your trades is where you’ll almost always find (or lose) the...
How do you learn to be a really good trader? A typical experience might be to learn a trading strategy, apply it to a demo account (or paper trade it) and then take it live once some virtual profits have been seen. And that’s a perfectly sensible way to go about...
Remember the classic 80’s film Trading Places? Two rich old brothers swap the lifestyles of a beggar and a fancy commodities broker to settle a twisted $1 bet. They set out to prove once and for all whether nature or nurture dictates how successful a person can be....
I set off hacking my way through the trading ‘jungle’… I bought the books, followed the ‘gurus’, set about looking for the Holy Grail. You know, the ‘one system to rule them all!’ But it was only when I stepped back and took a good long...
Give this question a bit of thought… What it is you actually want to achieve by trading? I know making money is sure to feature somewhere in your answer. But even that is going to mean vastly different things to different people. So before you think I’ve...
A question arrives from reader Tony B… “If the market was above the eurusd figure [the price he wants to buy at] how could I have placed the limit buy orders please? Should I put an alert on to wait for the market to drop?” Now Tony is one of our...
Scaled exits are nothing new. It’s not some cutting edge technique I’ve just invented. But scaling isn’t often discussed when it comes to Forex trading. You’ll read about the old masters of trading scaling out of their trades – they were doing...
A question arrives from a TN reader: “I’ve got this trade that’s well into profit. My usual strategy is to trail the stop loss so I can lock in some of the profits and then give the trade chance to turn into a long-term position. But what do you...
Everyone has the ability to make money from trading. These days the financial markets are a genuine ‘open access’ opportunity to one and all. Making money is simply a matter of repeating the same effective steps time after time. It’s all about...
I’ve been reading Market Wizards by Jack Schwager again recently and in the book one of the traders mentions getting to know just one individual market really, really well. So, is this still a good way to start? Should you focus on just one Forex market or learn...
A question arrives from TN reader Tony T: “I’m getting ready to trade again tomorrow [after the long Easter weekend] and feel a bit slow and ‘out of touch’ but I’ve heard some traders say they get better after taking a break. Is it normal...
A question arrives from TN reader Paul T: Rich, I trade my own strategy (I leant it from a book and added my own twist). It does work but I can’t seem to get it performing past breakeven. I’ll have a good run and then it always seems to hit a sticky patch...
I must admit, I’ve got a bit of a soft spot for volume. You might have heard me talk about it before. It tends to be followed more closely by futures and stock traders than Forex traders, and it has a certain sentimental appeal to it. Traders like Jesse...
I was flicking through an old trading journal of mine the other day. It’s a bit tattered around the edges but when I look at them now, I can see that those pages contain absolute pearls of wisdom. At the time, I was still desperately trying to figure things out....
I’ve been doing some work on trading Mindset this week. It’s for the ‘Campaign Management’ module of my new strategy (more on that to come in a minute). Now traders typically put all their energy and effort into ‘Method.’ You know...
Do you know one of the single biggest problems traders face? You might not agree at first glance because it actually sounds like a BENEFIT rather than a potential threat. But it’s been the ruin of many a trader over the years. And it’s a particular threat...
Imagine: you’ve spent weeks, months even, developing a trading strategy. Your back-testing is complete. And on paper this strategy has the potential to make an eye-popping 7% return on account per day. Yes, 7% return on account PER DAY! That’s not 7% per...
When you are over prepared you run the risk of ‘marrying’ your market opinion. All that hard work went into doing your analysis – it’s easy to become blinkered to any other possibility but the one you envisage. You may analyse the markets...
You never really know what the market will serve up next. Will it be a profit or will it be a losing trade? Consistent profits actually come from a random pattern of winning trades and losing trades. It’s only when you’ve got a proven system in place you’ll have...
