Archive for October, 2013
Today I was have a quiet and thought I’d play around with the binary markets. They have 5 minute binaries which can even make the most boring quiet market days really exciting. With binaries, the market goes from 0 to 100 and in 5 minutes, it’s can traverse from one extreme to the other.
However, any short term market.. and especially a very short timeframe such as 5 minutes, you’re practically dealing with ‘noise’ and therefore, randomness. There’s no skill in this, it’s ju
October 31, 2013
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My first thought is that new traders should start off with the longer timeframes… shorter timeframes are extremely stressful and a quick way to lose money particularly when you’re starting out. That’s not to say that it’s not possible but the likelihood that you will burn out is greatly increased if you run before you can walk.
Trading the Daily timeframes work better as there’s less ‘noise’ in the markets.. you’ll see less signals but the moves should be bigger and you igno
October 29, 2013
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For those that haven’t come across Trading Psychology yet, this is something you need to know if you are to be successful at trading. It would take a whole book to give you an intro to it so I recommend reading a couple of books… Trading in the Zone by Mark Douglas, anything by Van Tharp and Brett Steenbarger
For those that do know about Trading Psychology, you’ll remember that having the right Trading Psychology is 80% towards your success towards financial trading. Some people think i
October 24, 2013
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