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Monday, November 23, 2009

[Technical-Investor] TRADING TO WIN

 

The world of trading is one of high stakes and high-risk activity. The goal is, ostensibly, financial gain. Give up that goal, and you gain the freedom to genuinely listen to the sounds of the marketplace and to

be able to read the movement of stock prices in a way that enables you to increase your probability of success.

 

Reading the market's direction and the directions of specific stocks is essential to trading success. It is like the childhood game of musical chairs. In that game, you have to time your move so that you do not jump for a chair before the music has stopped; you also don't want to linger too long after the music stops so that there are no seats left. This is the trader's dilemma as well. The more skilled you are, the more patience you have, the longer you can stay in as the stock rises or falls before you act. You stay in longer, and therefore maximize your profits. However, you do not stay in so long that, by tryin to trade 

vou end uo beine stuck on the downturn  and caught holding declining stock in hope that it will turn around. The same goes for being able to minimize your losses. Rather than hoping and praying and rationalizing your hesitation by convincing yourself that the stock will eventually turn around, you cut your losses instead.
 

You  have to abandon energy-draining behavior—impulsiveness, chest beating, whining, and scalping (selling too soon to book a quick profit and missing the larger upward movement of a stock). You'll need to understand how to get out fast when stocks are dropping. You'll have to shed  counterproductive habits, such as taking personal calls during trading times or racing home after the bell instead of reviewing the day with other traders and coaches.

 

you must learn the appropriate role of money.  Paradoxically, the greater the amount of money, the more you must renounce your focus on it
 
 
 
 


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