Analysis

Independent thinking – A quality to cultivate in trading

We can generally find many qualities in successful traders, including discipline, patience, adaptability, independence, and mental toughness. You can work on several of them simultaneously, but one question remains — which one to prioritize? In other words, which quality should you cultivate the most to become successful at trading? Our answer is independent thinking. It’s Read More…

Strategies

Optimizing Risk Management in Trading – Using the Kelly Criterion

There is no doubt that risk management plays a vital role in trading; it arguably separates successful traders from unsuccessful ones. Incorporating risk management in trading helps to eliminate bad trading habits such as fear, greed, clinging to losing trades, etc., and helps prevent you from losing most if not all your trading capital. There Read More…

Strategies

Avoiding the Trap of Analysis Paralysis in Trading

It’s no secret that trading can be a stressful endeavor. Regardless of how well you do your research, how great your strategy is, or how thoroughly you’ve analyzed the market, you’ll face tough decisions and may be prone to make mistakes in your trading. The good news is that that’s how you learn and improve. Read More…

Analysis

Understanding Risk-on and Risk-off trading conditions

Risk-on and risk-off trading conditions are fundamental elements of every financial market. They showcase the current market sentiment; in other words, it reveals the attitude and emotion of traders and investors toward particular markets or securities. The price of financial instruments may rise and fall due to economic factors, geopolitics, interest rate adjustments, inflation reports, Read More…

Trading Tips

The Importance of Incorporating Fundamentals in Trading

There are two primary schools of thought when it comes to trading – technical and fundamental trading. While technical trading focuses on analyzing price movements and predicting future price changes using historical data, fundamental trading focuses on using economic data and financial parameters to find new trading opportunities. Traders choose to direct their career and Read More…

Trading Tips

Basic Trading Tenets you must know.

Beginner traders do everything in their power to stick to the basics and follow every rule, recommendation, and piece of advice they come across while learning about trading. However, as time goes by and traders become more experienced, they slowly drift away and forget to stick with the basic trading rules that worked early on Read More…

Trading Tips

How to Cultivate a Good Trading Routine

Every successful trader follows a routine that helps them make the most of every trading day. A trading routine is a habit loop that enables you to get in the zone and make rational decisions – and it’s all about repetition. To quote famous philosopher Will Durant, “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, Read More…

Strategies

What You Need to Know About High-Performance Traders

To an untrained eye, high-performance traders may seem like divine entities who can turn a profit at the snap of their fingers. There’s an illusion that they never lose or have losses so insignificant that they never put a dent in their wallet. The truth is that even high-performance traders lose. They don’t have a Read More…

Strategies

A Guide to Building a Robust Trading Plan

If you are in the business of trading financial instruments, you’ve probably heard this one before – the main difference between a successful and mediocre trader is a trading plan. But, of course, successful traders always have a comprehensive trading plan. Why is creating and having a trading plan so important? Can it make such Read More…