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Articles on institutional positioning, options flow, price action, and the neuroscience of trading.

  • My Top Trading Mistakes for 2012

    The learning process never ends for a trader.   The market is always evolving and you have to adapt. Algorithmic trading was about 3% of the FX market in 04′.  Now 28% of it is just HFT’s alone! Think that has changed the intraday price action?  Absolutely! Thus, you must always be learning, evolving and…

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  • Developing a Successful Forex Trading Mindset Pt. 1

    Today’s lesson is just to give you some brief tips on how to develop a successful forex trading mindset. Without a profitable and successful trading mindset, you will be swimming upstream against your emotions/fears, thoughts and unconscious habits which undermine your success.  Perhaps you have noticed this already in your trading, almost as if you…

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  • The Ideal Trader

    Over the last two weeks, I wrote on the subjects of ‘Quality vs Quantity – Which is Better For Trading?’ and ‘What is A High Quality Signal‘. The main theme has been around dispelling some freshman arguments and confusions others have written espousing the quality is better than quantity argument, and what really constitutes a…

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  • What Is A High Quality Signal?

    I recently wrote a controversial article dispelling some of the misconceptions about the ‘Quality vs Quantity‘ argument, the ‘Less is More‘ being better for your trading.  It has already garnered a lot of questions and responses on the web, which was its purpose. But there are still some lingering and freshman ideas floating around there.…

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  • Trading With Amnesia

    Last year the Colts were the first team in NFL history to go 0-13 following 9 straight playoff appearances. They had the single biggest lost of 2011, the worst AFC record in 3 years and finished with a 2-14 record which was the worst in the league that year.  Because of this, they got the…

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  • Ichimoku Price Theory | An Introduction

    This is the third installment introducing details to subjects which are not really discussed or talked about when it comes to Ichimoku Trading, that of using Ichimoku Time Theory and Ichimoku Wave Theory. Remember, according to Goichi Hosada (the creator of the Ichimoku Cloud), the Ichimoku trading system is based upon three pillars, and they…

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  • Live Intraday Price Action Trade on Silver

    I wanted to share a video of an live price action intraday trade on Silver I took, showing the result from my brokers chart (chart below). In the video I explain my entry, exit, stop, limit and the price action analysis of why I took the trade, why I continued with the trade and where…

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  • Trading and Fear

    Inspired by watching The Dark Knight Rises on my recent flight, I wanted to write an article about trading and fear.  Of all the emotions that affect a trader negatively, fear would be at the top of the list.   Ask yourself; -Have you ever not pulled the trigger when your system gave you a…

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