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Trusting your Trading System

Trusting your Trading System

Today was a disastrous day for one of my trading systems. Let me describe below how I usually trade the system. The horizontal lines are my buy and sell lines, if the market goes above the top line, I buy and if the market goes below the bottom line I sell. The stoploss in either case is 20 pips and the limit order or potential profit is 40 pips. However, you can see today that the market was rather choppy and the short was initiated first but it never hit the limit before it shot up, hit

February 9, 2011 No Comments Full Story

Your New Trading System – what not to do!

Your New Trading System - what not to do!

Trading is a difficult game and most people find it difficult to take a loss of any sort. The problem with trading is that losses are inevitable in trade. Does the below sound like you? (I took it from a newsletter I receive but thought it was a great article!) So you've invested in the new trading system and you're raring to go... The post arrives and you rip open the package. You digest the contents of the guide with your coffee, boot up your laptop and you're ready for action.

February 8, 2011 No Comments Full Story

Traders Magazine – January 2011 FREE

Traders Magazine - January 2011 FREE

The very excellent Traders Magazine January 2011 is available. This month we have: When Chart Patterns Fail You Can Win How Stock Chat can be a Trader's best friend Trading Diversifications - A Free Lunch? Dow Theory Applied Intraday In addition, there are the usual product reviews, web reviews, strategy section and this months people section is Nick McDonald, founder of the Trade with Precision website. I've been to see him at the Traders Symposium and he pretty down to earth k

December 24, 2010 No Comments Full Story

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