Winning and Loosing Lies With The Traders Not The Trades
To win or lose a trade is a familiar thing. We have experienced bot the joys and pains of it.
With trading losses, the majority of the time the shortfall comes from the trader and no the trading strategy.
Well, yes there is a good chance this described you. In this article I will talk about ways to change all that. Your stop loss order is a really good place to start, this should be decided before you place an order.
No discussion of position entry is complete without a thorough explanation of stops. But I'm left to wonder why so few investors use stop-losses. If you're guilty of not using stops, you need this information. It might just mean the difference between retiring on time with a healthy nest egg or retiring later and still just "scraping by."
By planning and placing stops you plan to win, but prepare to take losses and still live to trade another day. So we need to look at the trader psychology around taking losses.
All professional traders understand they must know where they are getting out before they get in. They have to know ahead of time what a wrong trade looks like so they can exit it quickly. This is a rudimentary fundamental that EVERY professional trader knows the answer to.
Can you answer the following questions?
1.) When should you stay on board and when should you bail out?
2.) When a stock is losing, do you have a guide that lets you know when to sell?
3.) Is there a set point for you to break-even by moving your stop?
Are you unable to answer these questions? You aren't alone. This indicated that you should be establishing some rules, especially when going to short stocks, but trading rules don't mean a thing if they aren't used. This is why we need to have a frank discussion about why you aren't managing your risks in a hands on way, like a pro should.
Many investors refuse to take a loss for two basic reasons:
1. Inability to admit they are wrong.
Though not really avoidable, a loss is seen as a personal failure. This is a painful thing to admit for a large portion of traders, like it illustrates failure at life. It also takes away from their positive self image.
A trader like this experiences real pain from the loss, and would rather deny it than fess up to the fact that it is giving them the pain. Quite often it requires a total loss before he can begin to change. To quit trading is the only other alternative.
2. Taking that large of a hit would damage their portfolio greater than it can recover from.
Losses aren't just on paper, they are real. The loss is what it is and the quoted price is it's value.
These two categories of people are not looking at the trading business with clear eyes. They are looking at it with blinders on and this narrowed vision is plaguing traders everywhere. Big business, small business, large portfolio and small, the elite crowd and the common man.
If this article is making you uncomfortable or bringing up feelings of anger or powerlessness, then that's a good sign. It means you have enough self-awareness to change.
Winning and losing traders have a different view of the pain from a loss, winners don't take it personally. They look at the loss and see that they need to change their approach or execution not that they are personally flawed.
Separating themselves from what they are doing is what a winning trader does. Either they know it or learn that the problem is either in their approach or their skills not in their worth as a human being. Changing the pain of a loss into a motivational factor that increases their quest to be a better trader.
You choose what to do with the losses, grow from the pain or give in and quit. Using the emotions for positive growth is what is important, not the fact that you had a loss.
Stick with my proven ETF Trend Trading system and make winning a habit. Study; ask questions and monitor your position size relative to your portfolio and you will end up on the winning side more often than not.
"Proper Stops and risks" are main points in my program and reminding you constantly of that is an important part of my mentorship program. Once you have gone through my program completely and thoroughly understand it, you will still want me to tell you "Don't move your stop" and "Be sure to take profits when my system tells you to, not earlier or later" In fact the mentorship program is probably valued higher than the course itself. - 23199
With trading losses, the majority of the time the shortfall comes from the trader and no the trading strategy.
Well, yes there is a good chance this described you. In this article I will talk about ways to change all that. Your stop loss order is a really good place to start, this should be decided before you place an order.
No discussion of position entry is complete without a thorough explanation of stops. But I'm left to wonder why so few investors use stop-losses. If you're guilty of not using stops, you need this information. It might just mean the difference between retiring on time with a healthy nest egg or retiring later and still just "scraping by."
By planning and placing stops you plan to win, but prepare to take losses and still live to trade another day. So we need to look at the trader psychology around taking losses.
All professional traders understand they must know where they are getting out before they get in. They have to know ahead of time what a wrong trade looks like so they can exit it quickly. This is a rudimentary fundamental that EVERY professional trader knows the answer to.
Can you answer the following questions?
1.) When should you stay on board and when should you bail out?
2.) When a stock is losing, do you have a guide that lets you know when to sell?
3.) Is there a set point for you to break-even by moving your stop?
Are you unable to answer these questions? You aren't alone. This indicated that you should be establishing some rules, especially when going to short stocks, but trading rules don't mean a thing if they aren't used. This is why we need to have a frank discussion about why you aren't managing your risks in a hands on way, like a pro should.
Many investors refuse to take a loss for two basic reasons:
1. Inability to admit they are wrong.
Though not really avoidable, a loss is seen as a personal failure. This is a painful thing to admit for a large portion of traders, like it illustrates failure at life. It also takes away from their positive self image.
A trader like this experiences real pain from the loss, and would rather deny it than fess up to the fact that it is giving them the pain. Quite often it requires a total loss before he can begin to change. To quit trading is the only other alternative.
2. Taking that large of a hit would damage their portfolio greater than it can recover from.
Losses aren't just on paper, they are real. The loss is what it is and the quoted price is it's value.
These two categories of people are not looking at the trading business with clear eyes. They are looking at it with blinders on and this narrowed vision is plaguing traders everywhere. Big business, small business, large portfolio and small, the elite crowd and the common man.
If this article is making you uncomfortable or bringing up feelings of anger or powerlessness, then that's a good sign. It means you have enough self-awareness to change.
Winning and losing traders have a different view of the pain from a loss, winners don't take it personally. They look at the loss and see that they need to change their approach or execution not that they are personally flawed.
Separating themselves from what they are doing is what a winning trader does. Either they know it or learn that the problem is either in their approach or their skills not in their worth as a human being. Changing the pain of a loss into a motivational factor that increases their quest to be a better trader.
You choose what to do with the losses, grow from the pain or give in and quit. Using the emotions for positive growth is what is important, not the fact that you had a loss.
Stick with my proven ETF Trend Trading system and make winning a habit. Study; ask questions and monitor your position size relative to your portfolio and you will end up on the winning side more often than not.
"Proper Stops and risks" are main points in my program and reminding you constantly of that is an important part of my mentorship program. Once you have gone through my program completely and thoroughly understand it, you will still want me to tell you "Don't move your stop" and "Be sure to take profits when my system tells you to, not earlier or later" In fact the mentorship program is probably valued higher than the course itself. - 23199
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