Archive for the ‘Trading Psychology’ tag
Paper Trading Is NOT What Will Teach You To Trade
Paper trading is only useful for the testing of your methodology.
March 11, 2010
By Editorial Staff
This is an excerpt from Elliott Wave International’s free Club EWI resource, “What a Trader Really Needs to be Successful” – a classic Special Report by EWI’s president Robert Prechter.
… 3. Experience. Some people advocate “paper trading” as a learning tool. Paper trading is useful for the testing of methodology, but it is of no value in learning about trading. In fact, it can be detrimental, by imbuing the novice with a false sense of security in “knowing” that he has successfully paper traded the past six months, thus believing that the next six months with real money will be no different. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth. Why?
10 Complimentary Investment Lessons
10 Complimentary Lessons to Separate Yourself from the Investment Herd
Learn more about the method that has kept Robert Prechter out of the herd and in the game for more than three decades. His company, Elliott Wave International, has an extremely useful Elliott Wave Tutorial for free online. It’s broken up into 10 lessons across 50 pages, so it’s easy to read and review at your leisure. Learn more about the free Tutorial.
“Successful market timing depends upon learning the patterns of crowd behavior. By anticipating the crowd, you can avoid becoming a part of it.”
I pulled this quote directly from the opening paragraphs of the free Elliott Wave Online Tutorial. It’s critical to your understanding of how markets really work.
Now some might say, “What’s wrong with following the crowd? I’m just following the easy money, right?” The problem with this logic is that most investors follow the crowd (or herd) all the way up the mountain … then right off the cliff.
How To Beat Your Emotions?
It’s known that most of traders lose because they can not beat their emotions and this causes them to make wrong-timed decisions and lose the most of their trading budget and forfeit quickly.
Trading psychology is known to be the first and most important factor for trading success or failure but its impacts are not initiative by many traders, they are just thinking about getting a good trading strategy but this is only part of the equation for gaining at FOREX trading.
Key To Trading Success: Ignore Nature’s Laws?
The following is excerpted from Robert Prechter’s Independent Investor eBook. The 75-page eBook is a compilation of some of the New York Times bestselling author’s writings that challenge conventional financial market assumptions. Visit Elliott Wave International to download the eBook, free.
By Robert Prechter, CMT
…The natural tendency of people to apply physics to finance explains why successful traders are so rare and why they are so immensely rewarded for their skills. There is no such thing as a “born trader” because people are born — or learn very early — to respect the laws of physics. This respect is so strong that they apply these laws even in inappropriate situations. Most people who follow the market closely act as if the market is a physical force aimed at their heads. Buying during rallies and selling during declines is akin to ducking when a rock is hurtling toward you.
