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Developing your Trading Psychology

Developing your Trading Psychology

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 No Comments Full Story

Example of Pinbars not to Trade

Example of Pinbars not to Trade

Following on from my article on the pinbars to trade, i thought it would be a useful to identify some pinbars which are not good to trade. Hopefully between that article and this one, you’ll get a better idea of what is defined as a good one to trade and what is a bad one and hence avoid. Pinbar against a strong trend (unless its a Massive Move Pinbar - see http://www.makemesomemoney.co.uk/select-pinbars-trade/) Sometimes you see a 1 day reversal in an underlying trend.. quite often this is

October 22, 2013 No Comments Full Story

How I select which Pinbars to Trade

How I select which Pinbars to Trade

A lot of my trades have been off pinbars. Pinbars are great in that they show where there was some strong buying or selling. This gives you a clue as to what may happen next so it could potentially be a good place to place a trade in the direction of the pinbar and a stop underneath the wick. I’m writing in the context of bullish pinbars here but the same is true for bearish pinbars. All my trades with pinbars are off the Daily charts.. I don’t trade the intraday timeframes as I want more t

October 19, 2013 1 Comment Full Story

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