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Patience and Discipline Key to become consistently profitable trader is to be patience and discipline Don't ever bend the rules thinking it will work just as well. it won't Don't be greedy. No matter how good the trade setup looks, stick to your rules and your predetermined order size. Trading can get boring, there are many times when nothing is happening in the market. Have patience and wait for the best setups. No matter what strategy you use, you will always have bad trades from time to time. Don't let your emotions cloud your judgement. Take the loss and move on. Every loss should be a lesson to learn from. study what happened, identify what mistake you've made, journal it down and try not to do it again. There are times where you didn't do anything wrong but still suffer a small loss. This is part of trading, don't try to explain what cannot be explained. The market makes random moves occasionally. If the strategy is not bad, don't change it, stick to it and always manage your risk. ALWAYS MANAGE YOUR RISK
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by AhKeongTheTrader
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A few words about time management How do you planing your day? If you look like Jack you should think about time management! Benefits of Time Management The ability to manage your time effectively is important. Good time management leads to improved efficiency and productivity, less stress, and more success in life. Here are some benefits of managing time effectively: 1. Stress relief Making and following a task schedule reduces anxiety. As you check off items on your “to-do” list, you can see that you are making tangible progress. This helps you avoid feeling stressed out with worry about whether you’re getting things done. 2. More time Good time management gives you extra time to spend in your daily life. People who can time-manage effectively enjoy having more time to spend on hobbies or other personal pursuits. 3. More opportunities Managing time well leads to more opportunities and less time wasted on trivial activities. Good time management skills are key qualities that employers look for. The ability to prioritize and schedule work is extremely desirable for any organization. 4. Ability to realize goals Individuals who practice good time management are able to better achieve goals and objectives, and do so in a shorter length of time. Thanks for your support! Take care of yourself!))
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by Yuriy_Bishko
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💡 Discipline vs Motivation 💡Welcome friends!💋 What's more important to you: Discipline or Motivation? Today we'll talk about it.😊 There are two main ways to force yourself to do something: ⚡ the first, most popular, is try to motivate yourself; ⚡ the second, less popular, is to develop self - discipline. What's the difference?🧐 Motivation is based on the erroneous assumption, that a specific mental or emotional state is needed to complete a task. Discipline separates activity from moods and feelings and thus bypasses the problem. The consequences are staggering. Simply put, you don't have to wait until you'll in Olympic form to start training. No, you train to achieve this form!!!! Why discipline is more important than motivation ? IMHO🧐 Chasing motivation means, that we need to do only what we're in the mood for. The trick is to cut the connection between feelings and actions, to do right thing anyway. You will feel good and energetic afterwards. To achieve success with only motivation is the wrong way. You risk losing your enthusiasm very quickly. Since real life in the real world sometimes requires people to do things that can't always be done only with enthusiasm, sometimes willpower is needed. Motivatio n has a tiny shelf life and needs to be constantly updated. Motivation is not the best foundation for your normal daily activities, and it is unlikely to help you achieve long-term results. Discipline is a motor, that once started and constantly supplies energy to You. For consistent, long-term results, discipline trumps motivation. Discipline is when you do something even when you're not in your best condition. Discipline is more or less permanent, and motivation is fleeting. How to develop discipline? 🧐 You need to acquiring habits - starting with small, even micro ones, gaining momentum, using them to make further changes in daily life. THE MAIN ADVICE TO YOU: Even if it's difficult for you - fight!🔥 The hardest fight is the fight with yourself! But the victory would be so sweet💪🏻 Thanks for Your attention🙏🏻 Stay in touch🧡 Sincerely yours Rocket Bomb 🚀💣 My first two chapters of free manual . Links below👇🏻 ENGOY YOUR LEARNING 🚀💣
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by RocketBomb
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The only way to profit from trading is discipline. Wrong Wrong !We all come to trading for freedom, financial freedom, free of work, trade whenever and wherever we want to... Now, everyone told you that you must be disciplined in order to be profitable from trading. Can you do it? Instead of discipline, you should be responsible... Yes, Responsibilities will change your trading. You are responsible for protecting your account, working on time, your health and etc... Please watch it and like and share if you think this video is useful. Thank you for watching!
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by FxFran
Trading Plan February 2019This is my trading plan for February 2019. Will be working this plan for the rest of the year, and review December 31 2019. This is based on: - 2 years of crypto trading - realisation that I suck at daytrading - suspicion I could be good at macro swing trading - recent education on Babypips and other trusted sources The focus of the year is on: - learning - refining a system that plays to my strengths - understanding risk management and R:R - becoming effective at pulling the trigger on entries/exits Profit is really not a concern for this year. Profit will come when I'm competent as a trader and can consistently show a meaningful, non-negligible winrate, net of fees.
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by emotionallydetached
USDTRY - Be wary of Intervention ex-post Rapid MovesTraders layering into TRY potentially got burnt last week as the Turkish Central Bank intervened to halt the local currency's worrying devaluation by raising interest rates by a whopping 3% Whilst i tend to let the majority of fundamental data pass me by , it often pays to atleast maintain a health awareness of key macro factors that might have a direct impact on any currency pairs you are trading or tracking (this is different to following any random commentator's subjective opinion) While I do not like setting upside targets , it can pay to trail stops at healthy profit levels during large abnormal moves so as not to give back profits (we saw this in crypto in Dec 17) adn if we miss the big move initially wait for natural pullbacks / consolidations rather than chase an entry. There will ALWAYS be a pullback or another instruments that will offer the next big move. Worst thing to do is chase an entry through FOMO , get burnt and then be paralysed the next time a big opportunity presents itself. Stay rational, stay calm and nimble
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by TJP_Trader
Self-discipline - what's that?Whilst I am on a roll, I'm pushing out loads of questions and thoughts that have occupied me for the last two years. All this is well ' Beyond Technical Analysis '! In too many trading/training videos out there, I've heard the words 'discipline' and 'self-discipline'. These are so commonly used words that many take their meaning for granted, or as something very elementary. I know - because I was one of those people who thought I knew what the words meant. However, there is also a thing called self-deception which works against self-discipline. Self-deception at its heart, is the ability of the mind to justify anything! Quite simply - it's dangerous. The Collins Dictionary defines self-discipline as, " controlling of oneself or one's desires, actions, habits ... .. the act of disciplining or power to discipline one's own feelings, desires... with the intention of improving oneself. " It's easier now to see how this connects to trading environments. A sound trader needs a lot of personal self-control over actions, habits, feelings and desires. I add 'thinking processes'. Certainly there must be a routine that improves one abilities, as the markets are not static. Their behaviour changes so one needs to improve to match those changes. The obvious question for many (especially new traders) is, " How do I become more disciplined? " I'm afraid there is no magic formula that I can prescribe. I can only share a few personal experiences that drove me to become more disciplined. It's like a weird sandwich: A firm and unshakeable desire to make myself consistently profitable. Pain i.e. painful mistakes. Non-acceptance that if others could do it, I couldn't. Pain drives people - let's not debate that. By pain I include from the worse kinds of suffering to the more subtle kinds. One can include things like frustration, anger and disappointment. Pain stood like a distasteful filling between the two sides of my sandwich. I just couldn't ignore it. If I wanted to make this thing right I had to fix the pain; all sources of it. I was/am my own pain. My enemies arise from within me to cause me pain. My mind plays tricks on me in trading environments. To deal with the sources of pain I had to deal with my own mind, else just give up. I'm no quitter! So whilst I do not claim near-perfect discipline now, I have been addressing the trickery of my own mind - those inner enemies - that thwart my thinking processes. After all, if I don't the whole sandwich (three bullet points above) become nothing - and I'd have to join the 90-odd percent of people who give up on trading in the first couple years. Am I saying that pain is a necessary ingredient for everybody to reach a greater self-disciplined state? Well yes I am! In every walk of life people have to suffer some sort of discomfort in achieving their goals. If you wanted to become a top-rated lawyer, you would have to suffer the 'pain' of years of study, and the trauma of being beaten in court rooms. If you want to get to the North Pole on foot, that involves pain and personal sacrifice. But nobody gets to the North Pole alive, with poor discipline. I shan't go on to mention other areas where people suffer extreme discomfort in order to achieve their goals. If there are take away points to consider, traders should to find out what they are about and anchor themselves on what they want and what they won't have. Then, systematically whittle away at all obstacles by robust self-refection. It takes time - and bargain for pain! Do the time - take the pain. Don't blow up a live account.
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by Captain_Walker
Case Study for Mismanaging a Disciplined Trade StrategyIn the most recent BTCUSD dip I made a series of mistakes that put me in a slightly nervous position overall, but still generally favorable. Over a series of trades I managed to find myself in a position with an average buy price of $7486.13. Trading profitably on the dips I reduced this average buy price to $7348.21. Throughout this series of trades I had multiple opportunities to take profit and this discussion will focus on trading psychology and process failure. Early in my trading session I had managed to identify successfully entry levels that were reasonably close to where I could make a "dip" profit. Generally my target is around 2%. Given the big dip from $9.2k to below $8k and given the duration and recovery of that dip from $10k I felt confident that the market was oversold and all of the order book charts indicated an overall strong buying to selling ratio. My price target was just below $8.5k and on the first move up it hit $8.4k and I felt like there would be an orderly move over time. What I learned with this recent price action was that trading bots and whales/funds that control them have disproportionate leverage over price action. Not being fully aware of their techniques, I decided against adjusting my price target and I was "too greedy" and completely missed my profit opportunity after being presented double my normal target over two periods. Now having missed that opportunity I was forced to double down knowing that the next price move would likely be much bigger and deeper. Trading for profit on the way down I was able to recoup some of poor positioning but again, I did not quite understand the techniques of these algo bots until near the end when I was able to make an adjustment to how I choose price targets to better compensate for whale/shark algo bots. Setting price targets for exiting my position and reducing my risk came down to three possible outcomes: 1) Sell ALL at a higher price that would make profit but also leave me no room for error if I missed at $7800. This price level would have still been poor risk/reward overall so this exit strategy seemed like a mistake. 2) Sell ~half (47%) of my position at a profit at $7400 and then sell the other half at $8000 for "break even" on that part of the trade. This seemed like a prudent risk management strategy as I would have funds to take additional profit if the market moved back down while leaving in place a position that could become profitable over a longer duration. 3) Sell ALL at the higher price target that would give me a much bigger target but leave me open to poor risk management again. This was definitely the worst option. So I chose 2) which worked ok in that the first trade target was hit as expected. Then, while watching the order book I started to worry because there were big sell walls below $7500. I thought about how stressful it would be to ride that position back through another big dip and because of fatigue also overly focused on this possibility rather than going back to my pre-defined strategy of hodling for $8k on half and trading with the other half. Clearly, stress causes one to adopt a risk averse mental state. And this kind of risk aversion usually leads to the panic selling and "weak hands" phenomenon of selling at exactly the WRONG time, i.e. when you should be thinking about buying. So when I saw the price being challenged at $7k to $7.1k with very clear algo bot action pushing the price in both directions with very light buy order positioning I became a pawn in this algo bot action and decided to exit early and go take a nap rather than have to sit through another big dip with half of my fund at risk. Rather than see any huge sell wall the sell-side volume relented and the price nearly hit my price target of $7.9k. If I had been more disciplined I could have set a contingency (less greedy) target below $8k but I changed my plan using no particular reasoning whatsoever other than fear of these algo bots.
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by powderpc
The markets are there to make you feel stupid or brilliantMany a trader will have made their best analysis based on information at the time and then taken an entry position, only to find that the market does something unexpected. Price may move violently in the wrong direction i.e. not the favoured direction and comes close to a stop loss or actually stopping out the position for a loss. Now with hindsight a trader feels or thinks, " How stupid - I should have seen it coming. I shouldn't have done that. " This happens enough times to new traders. Seasoned traders live with it and have less such self-talk. I think it's important to acknowledge those feelings. These are partly thinking processes and emotional processes. New traders often feel demoralised after 10 or so failures in a row. " Am I doing something wrong? " - they may think. This is a reasonable question. It could be that something is wrong. However, nothing may be found wrong with one's methodology or application of one's personal rules - after a careful reassessment. It's good to check. The BTCUSD chart shows what is some sort of 'head and shoulders' pattern. It's not the best picture of it in the world but something is there. Wherever one takes a position in BTCUSD, it could be wrong. Why? The markets respect no one person. A proportion of traders will have taken a position in this and made some real profits. They will punch the air and with joy go, " YESSSS!! " From my long experience I've learned that 'feelings' of being right or wrong, actually bends the mind a trader. I'm speaking for myself quite clearly. Others may have similar experience. A feeling of being good after a string of wins, often creates a subconscious sense of confidence. Imperceptibly this can creep into future trades and then one realises some major losses. My own strategy is to try at best to reduce trading frequency and exert even greater diligence in entering trades after a series of wins. I aim to expect the unexpected. It's always a tad difficult when I get stopped out for a loss. But I repeat to myself that the stoploss is there to protect against the 'unexpected' - so it's not actually unexpected. It is a limit. It is the expected limit of price moving not in a favoured direction. There is no single path to 'a promised land' in trading. Traders can adopt different methods, different rules, and be consistently profitable. The largest obstacle which is difficult to train out a trader, is their own personal psychology . By this I mean things like attention to detail, biases, emotions, discipline etc. So in many ways feeling stupid or brilliant can affect our future decision-making in imperceptible ways. Traders can lose discipline after losses or big gains. Mark Douglas spoke about these sorts of things. The BTCUSD chart is not intended to attract thoughts on whether to go long or go short. I'm not really interested in whether the H&S is there at all or correctly drawn. I'm taking it beyond that. What happens next to traders who come out of this period - some bruised, some overjoyed? Trading is not about winning one trade or a small handful. It's about the long road ahead. I'm delighted if others can share their experiences.
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by Captain_Walker
Why its SO important to stay DISCIPLINED!!!Here is a great example on why it's so important to stick to your plan and follow your rules 100%! GBPAUD 60min Bear TCT: Notes are on the chart Would you have been disciplined enough to watch the market get 99.9% to Target #1 and sit through a 150 Pip Reversal and losing half of your profits? Then watch the market come down and Double Bottom just ahead of Target #1. Seeing a Bullish Hammer at the Double Bottom? If you did have enough Discipline/Focus then you would have been rewarded with a lot of Pips! In these situations I always remember what my Mentor preaches... "It's all about Process over Outcome". What this means is that it's not about the money or pips you make but its about your process of trading. Will you follow your Trading Plan that you have backtested? Will you stay Disciplined? Will you stay Focused? Will you forget about the money and just focus on the Process!!!??? If you can then you will be that much closer to succeeding in this business!! Happy Trading :)
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by PateSkpate
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