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Jan 3, 14 •
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Maria Iacob
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You’re not alone if you’ve experienced real ‘down on yourself’ moments in trading. Thoughts of giving up, smashing up your monitors, dropping your laptop from the upstairs windows and watching it crash onto the concrete below, are all...
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Jan 2, 14 •
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Maria Iacob
Comments Off on What is a trend in trading and why we make it hard to identify
There are several ‘walking on hot coals’ rituals that many novice traders appear determined to experiment with early on in their fledgling careers in order to prove (to themselves) their trading credentials. Attempting to pick the ‘tops and...
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Dec 31, 13 •
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Maria Iacob
Comments Off on What are the lessons we should learn from the huge move in EUR/USD on Friday December 27th?
Many trend/swing traders will have been ‘caught short’ during the exponential rise of EUR/USD last Friday December 27th. With hindsight it’s quite straightforward to analyse and pinpoint the reasons for the move which saw the major currency...
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Dec 27, 13 •
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Maria Iacob
Comments Off on Thinking of changing broker in 2014? What to look out for and why the grass isn’t always greener on the other side of the road
As 2013 ends it’s the perfect time for traders to evaluate many aspects of their trading. In a recent blog post we covered the subject of New Year trading resolutions; we highlighted some of the key improvements traders could make to their trading...
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Dec 26, 13 •
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Maria Iacob
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As the year closes we get an opportunity as traders to assess what we’ve achieved during the year. Not just in monetary terms, although that’s the primary reason we gravitate towards trading – profit, we get to analyse other aspects of our...
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Dec 20, 13 •
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Maria Iacob
Comments Off on A list of don’ts for new and inexperienced traders
We often post up what new and inexperienced should do, as opposed to warnings of not what to do. In this article we’ll compile a list of don’ts, as opposed to a list of do’s. We’ll focus on many of the mistakes and faults traders are...
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Dec 19, 13 •
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Maria Iacob
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There is no debate that indicator based trading actually ‘works’, despite the levels of critique from experienced and successful traders, indicator based trading has stood the test of time. Indicator based trading works particularly well on the...
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Dec 18, 13 •
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Maria Iacob
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Yesterday in our article titled; “Managing our emotions when trading; why you ignore this issue at your peril and why dreaming ‘works'”, we discussed how positive imagery can help reinforce positive expectations in our trading. We discussed...
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Dec 17, 13 •
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Maria Iacob
Comments Off on Managing our emotions when trading; why you ignore this issue at your peril and why dreaming ‘works’
As traders we’re often ‘guilty’ of dreaming where our trading may eventually take us financially. In many respects projecting our ambitions into the future, by using our imagination, is a perfectly healthy occupation. We often like to point...
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Dec 13, 13 •
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Maria Iacob
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Once we’ve traded on demo for a reasonable amount of time to finally test a strategy that we’re convinced has a positive expectancy and as such represents an ‘edge’, we should be adding to and perfecting our trading plan before finally...