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10 tips to become a profitable traderHere are 10 tips to become a profitable trader: 1. Understand the markets and trading instruments: Thoroughly learn about the financial markets, trading products, and how they function. This will help you make well-informed investment decisions. 2. Develop a trading strategy: Formulate a clear investment strategy, including entry/exit criteria, risk management, and position sizing. This will provide you with a systematic and disciplined approach. 3. Manage risk: Always determine your acceptable risk level and use tools like stop-loss orders and position sizing to mitigate risk. 4. Focus on the process, not the outcome: Focus on executing your strategy correctly, not on the result of each trade. The results will come to those who are patient and disciplined. 5. Avoid the temptation of excessive leverage: Use leverage carefully and only with an amount you can afford to risk. 6. Diversify your investment portfolio: Invest in a variety of asset classes to reduce overall risk. 7. Continuously learn and update your knowledge: Monitor market trends, research new strategies, and stay up-to-date with trading tools. 8. Maintain emotional control: Avoid letting emotions influence your investment decisions. Stay cool-headed and make clear-minded decisions. 9. Track and analyze your results: Monitor and analyze the results of your trades to identify strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement. 10. Be patient and persistent: Becoming a successful investor is not an overnight process. Be patient, persistent, and continuously improve.
INDEX:BTCUSDEducation
by Rockybullcrypto
Becoming a Successful Trader is a Process of EliminationBecoming a trader is not a journey for the faint of heart. Becoming a successful trader is ultimately an act of determination . Not unlike the titular character of the John Wick trilogy (Quadrology? Pentology?), we traders have to be "a man of focus, commitment, sheer will." (and I'm certainly not being sexist... this goes for you female traders as well!) We have to get up early, stay up late, follow a routine, backtest, journal, rinse, and... repeat... and repeat ... and REPEAT . Focus . Commitment . Sheer will . Ultimately, the journey of becoming a successful trader is a process of elimination, not much unlike Michelangelo sculpting his great masterpiece, David, from a mediocre piece of marble . Reportedly, someone asked the artist how he made such a magnificent sculpture from the hulking slab of what was a previously abandoned project – literally a 'leftover' piece of marble. His reply was "Simple... I just chipped away all the parts that weren't David." Likewise, the successful trader we want to be is inside us... we just have to chip away all the pieces that are "un-traderlike". Early in my trading journey I had several friends, who career-wise, were in "high places", who tried to convince me that the road I was about to travel was a pathway to failure. One is a fund manager who oversees 8-figure retirement accounts for wealthy clients. Another friend is an industry recognized globetrotting auditor for Fortune-100 clients. Another friend was a nuclear engineer. (All smart cookies, right?) All three tried to sway me from my plans of becoming a trader by recounting stories of friend after friend who lost their homes, lost their fortunes, lost their marriages, lost their minds, etc. after losing their proverbial shorts in the markets. Their universal theme: "Trading is a path doomed for failure. It's legalized Gambling! Nobody makes money trading." Well, friends, just watch the news... somebody is making money in the markets, and the secret to success is to do what successful people do. My motto: "Do what successful people do, get what successful people got." Just because you are a successful accountant, a successful investor, a successful nuclear engineer, it doesn't make you a successful trader, and it's hard to take advice from someone who you respect, but has no experience in the field they are pontificating on, saying, "you can't make money doing 'X' " if they themselves have never done it.  I'm not going to listen to my brother for financial advice... he's broke. I'm not going to listen to my uncle for marriage advice... he's been divorced 3 times. I'm not going to listen to my brother-in-law for business advice... he's started and shut down 10 businesses in 5 years. Likewise, I wasn't about to listen to anyone, friends and family included, who have never traded tell me that I can't become a successful trader. It is said that you are the average of the five people you spend the most time with . If we want to become successful at trading, we have to associate with successful traders ... and we have to simply do what they did to get what they've got . We not only need to take on certain new behaviors and attitudes... more importantly we have to stop doing certain activities and stop believing certain things to start heading in the direction we want to go in our trading, or any aspect of our lives for that matter. These are the things that are preventing us from being successful. We have to take away all the "bits that aren't trader-like" and become the magnificent trader we are destined to be. This is a simple process of elimination. Elimination Point 1: Eliminate or limit relationships that do not support you and your goals. I had to 'eliminate' or limit some relationships (as mentioned above, people who never traded before trying to tell me that "nobody makes money trading"), and establish new relationships (those among the trading community who are successful at trading) and follow in the footsteps of the successful. One of my mottos as I alluded to before is: "If you do what successful people do ... you will get what successful people've got ." Why spend time with or take advice from someone with literally zero experience in a field they feel qualified to pontificate about?) Just look at all our FaceBook "friends" who think they're qualified to give advice on immunology, virology, or geopolitics of the Middle East. Turn that noise off... Ain't nobody got time for that!   Elimination Point 2: Eliminate or limit activities that do not move you forward in your goals. I love movies. One of the reasons (well, the primary reason) I built my home was that I could build my dream home theater in its massive bonus room. It has 2-tier seating, a 144" projection screen, an ear-splitting loveseat-pounding surround sound system, custom cabinetry, and so on... I would binge TV shows (7 seasons of 24, 5 seasons of Breaking Bad), I would have Movie Marathons (9 Star Wars films, 6 Middle Earth movies, 8 Fast & Furious films) and host monthly movie nights with our friends. Other hobbies included woodworking, writing, getting on the JetSki several times each week, not to mention all my other 'commitments'. We live fast-paced, hectic lives full of 'good' things. However, our glasses are full . In order to add "developing my trading skills" to our glass we have to "empty" that glass of 'good' things in order to make room for 'better' things. This can be a very difficult thing for us to admit: We have to sacrifice the "good" for the "better." My movie routine is now simply Friday afternoons with friends and a twice-a-month movie "date night". I'm not on the lake as often as I'd 'want' to be but I'm still getting out on the 'ol SeaDoo. I haven't done a recreational woodworking project in a long while. Freeing up or reorganizing my time gave me the ability to spend at least four (and sometimes eight) hours per day to hone my trading skills and develop my own consistently profitable trading system... Every day we need to focus on whittling away bad habits and building on good habits ... Every day we need to build our trading psychology from "I hope I can trade full time someday" to "By doing what these successful traders are doing I will get what I deserve after my consistent efforts in short order!" We need to change our commitment level from "I'll find time to fit in learning how to trade when I can" to "I'm committing the time to develop this skill in order to never be dependent on an employer, customers, on the economy, ever again!" And day by day I and my fellow traders who followed this philosophy alongside me were committed to build our trading performance from a 20% win rate, to a 40% win rate, to a 60% win rate... to where we now have a reliable, consistent income from the markets. Elimination Point 3: Eliminate all education channels but one: Become an education minimalist.  One of the blessings of the internet today is the plethora of information available about trading. One of the curses however is you can easily find yourself "spinning plates" jumping from guru to guru, watching video after video, following technique after technique and six months later after spending hour after hour doing all that you find you are no farther ahead in your trading journey than when you started.  (I speak from personal experience!)  I one day decided to simplify : simply look at the trading styles of all my favorite traders and choose one single trading method which I thought would be the best fit for me. My goal was to turn my light bulb into a laser . Fun fact: a 5-watt light bulb will barely keep a muffin warm. A 5-watt laser will cut through steel . If you focus all of your energy and efforts into one spot , you can literally burn through the barriers that have been holding you back from becoming the trader you want to be, the trader that you need to be. What one technique do you know, which one mentor or trader do you respect, which one timeframe can you focus on, what one market will you trade over and over until you have the win rate you need to take your trading full time ? Elimination Point 4: Excuses. Eliminate them! It has been said that "Excuses are reasons wrapped up in a lie." We can all justify, give a 'reason' for why we can't wake up early, why we can't stay up late, why we can't carve out 90 minutes per day to develop our skill, why we can't commit that first $10K in capital, why we can't join that trading group...  You can make Money , or you can make excuses . You can't do both. Find the reasons you can and will do what you need to do to get what you are committed to get. Put together a playlist of inspiring music. Put your alarm clock on the other side of the room. Read The Miracle Morning . (More importantly, don't just read it, DO the Miracle Morning!) We don't have the time to do everything in the world that we want. But we do have the time to do everything that we need to do that is important . If you "don't have time" to trade or develop your skill to the next level then it's just not "important" enough. If you really want to be a successful trader, (the great) it has to be important enough that it will usurp the time previously committed (or squandered) on other activities (the good). Take 15 minutes to look at what people, activities, excuses, you need to eliminate or limit, and what habits, routines, and relationships you will add or magnify in your life. Then put those items on the calendar and as the most successful ad campaign in history commands, "Just Do It!" Trade Well!
BITFINEX:DOGEUSDEducation
by ocaptain
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What role does strategy play in trading?Sunzi begins by establishing the importance of strategy. Although the word bing has been translated as "war" in most works in the west, once you approach the original Chinese manuscripts and the sense of Sunzi's work, you immediately come to understand that he was not talking about warefare, instead, Sunzi wants us to appreciate how important it is to develop strategic skills to avoid our own destruction when competing. Of course trading is man-made, but competition is a natural process. We are all the products of evolutionary competition, however, the true skill in competition—that is, an understanding of strategy—is not inborn. For most of us, competition creates problems, but only in the sense that if we don’t understand strategy, life is unnecessarily difficult. We earn our livelihood, love, and everything else through strategy. When we say that skill in strategy is important in our lives, we are saying specifically that strategy is a skill. It isn’t inborn any more than the knowledge of mathematics is inborn. We must learn strategic skills. We develop these skills by working at them. Some people are more comfortable competing than others are, but to become successful at any level of competition we all have to work. Competition in trading brings out the best in us. It enriches the world in which we live. It replaces less effective methods with more effective methods. The trading world competes for every single dollar. In doing so, traders constantly improve their operational choices and decrease the costs of their operation. Competition eliminates poorly developed traders and and leaves only the best in each category. So, do you really have what this vast compettition arena requires?
CME_MINI:ESH2021Education
by SunziTrader
1
AUDCAD 20/09/2019Hello Traders! We play with Smartmoney concepts, that means that we look mostly on PA to determine what will happen in future. As we all know, price is moved by BIG players: Banks, Institutional traders, HFT bots (we call them all of them SM). They can't play as we do, cause of a HUGE lot sizes, so cause of that they need to SELL to BUY and BUY to SELL for positioning them self in the best possible spot. If u were learn about trading from free and accessible knowledge, u probably heard about BUYing LOW and SELLing HIGH? So SM must BUY LOWER and SELL HIGHER :) We as retail traders are just a small fish in this ocean, so we need to catch the waves which are created by SM. CHARTS AGENDA: SM - SMART MONEY PA - PRICE ACTION HEC - HIGH ENERGETIC CANDLE (LAST OPPOSITE CANDLE BEFORE MOVE) <- SM MUST SELL TO BUY AND BUY TO SELL :) BITCOIN SIGN - MONEY POCKET (SL, BUY STOPS, SELL STOPS) - EQH - EQUAL HIGHS / EQL - EQUAL LOWS BLACK ARROWS ARE ABOVE AND BELOW THESE MONEY SPOTS POINTING FUTURE TARGET BLUE LINES - ENTRIES WITH SMART MONEY MITIGATION MOVE - SNIPER ENTRY FOR US BLACK LINES FOOT PRINTS - SPOTS ON CHART WHERE SMART MONEY SHOULD COME BACK TO GET OUT OF THEIR POSITIONS IN DRAWDOWN (SM MUST SELL TO BUY AND BUY TO SELL) - POTENCIAL SNIPER ENTRIES BLACK BOX - GAP's (IPA - INSUFFICIENT PRICE ACTION) - SPOTS ON CHART WHERE PRICE MOVED TOO FAST, AND LEFT SOME "WHOLES" IN PRICE ACTION WHERE ALGORITHMS WHAT TO COME BACK AND FILL IT BY "HEALTHY" PA. If u have any questions feel free to ask:) GOD BLESS U ALL!
by Snipers-Academy
Achieve Financial Security through Self DevelopmentSELF DEVELOPMENT/METHODOLOGY/PSYCHOLOGY Achieve Financial Security through Self Development What skill set will you further develop over the next 90 days?What books will you read? What courses will you take? State specifically your personal development action plan for the 90 days...(your personal development is an ongoing process)............................ Strengths and Weaknesses 1. What are your skills? ................................................... 2. Do you tend to be compulsive? ................................................... 3. How much social contact do you need? ................................................... 4.Can you work by yourself day after day? Do you need other people around you? .................................................... 5.What are your psychological strengths and weaknesses? In terms of trading system development? .................................................... 6. Do you have deadlines to meet in your trading? .................................................... 7. And lots more.............................. Please let me know if you have any questions or would like to know more Happy trading :) "Invest 3% of your income in yourself (self development) in order to guarantee your future" Brian Tracy
TVC:GOLDEducation
by SMPTrader