Zahir Shah

Trading will often try the patience of saints. Even patient, calm, decisive people, who pride themselves over how they’ve developed emotional control over their decision making and the measured way they navigate through their own personal lives, have been known to smash keyboards and trash their home office space, during their formative trading months and

Randomness could be defined as the lack of pattern or predictability in a series of events. A random sequence of events, symbols or steps, appears to have no order and fails to follow an intelligible pattern, or any combination. If you get a group of traders together for a discussion on their craft, one of

Only a tiny percent of retail traders will ever make it. There’s lots of information, data and opinions on this subject, but none of it is conclusive or definitive. We read that 95% of traders fail, that only 1% of forex traders make a living trading and that the vast majority of traders give up

Whether we discover the (at times) lonely and solo activity of retail forex trading by accident or design, we’re social animals and in the social media world we now inhabit, we’ll eventually discover forums and other social media methods, to share and discuss our trading ideas. As we discover forums and other discussion venues, we’ll

The majority of the most popular and highly respected trading forums, are sub divided into various categories. You’ll see separate discussion sections for: general trading discussion, platforms, automation, brokers, journals, systems etc. Interactive trading and trading systems are generally the sections that experience the highest number of posts, but not the highest number of threads.

Occasionally there’s weeks listed in the economic calendar, which deliver high impact news events in rapid succession. We may get: an interest rate decision, a GDP reading, a jobs report, and PMIs etc. all delivered within days of each other. And if they all relate to the economy of a particular country, then the impact

If you no longer consider yourself to be a novice trader then you’ve probably suffered some trading losses, you’ll have trader scar tissue imprinted on your conscious mind and gained valuable experience during your journey. Whilst you’ll also quickly realize that trading doesn’t necessarily involve having (or struggling to find) a trading technique/method or edge,

There appears to be two binary opinions with regards to the overall value of backtesting and that opinion is evenly divided. Many traders swear by backtesting, others cite it as patently useless, claiming that only forward testing in real time in the market place works. But is there a critical logical fault in the claim

Discussing various trading methods and strategies with fellow traders, can prove to be a fascinating and enjoyable exercise. Many of us more experienced traders, will enjoy conversing with novice traders, who think they’ve discovered the infamous holy grail of trading. We don’t engage with them in order to indulge in some form of righteous smugness,