Articles on institutional positioning, options flow, price action, and the neuroscience of trading.
Being a huge football fan, on Sunday my monitors are littered with NFL action. Since I don’t have a TV, I watch all the games online. Before or in between games, I’m glued to the NFL network which is both highly educational + entertaining. Yesterday I heard a great example of a player who went…
Many people come to the forex market with ideas of trading successfully, visions of traveling to postcard beaches, and having all the free time they want. But many do not make it and usually give up before getting to their pot of gold. Week in-week out I hear from developing traders who say something like,…
Did you know you could have a 50% accuracy ratio for your trading, always have a 2R profit target, and still lose money? Its true, (although its a low probability), but remains true nonetheless. How? Because of two key factors: % account risked and your risk of ruin ratio. At a bare minimum, you have…
Have you ever asked yourself why you close winning trades and take profits too early, but let your losses run to the full stop? Have you ever wondered why you feel the tension, emotion and desire to close your winning trades too early before hitting your take profit level – even though the trade is…
I recently had a really good Q&A session with a student in my price action course, who had asked a really important question. He was having a hard time discerning when to follow the rules to develop consistency in their forex trading, while having flexibility to ‘adjust‘ the rules in the right circumstances. This is…
Hello Traders, I just wanted to share a brief excerpt about the trading mindset, and some of the things I share in the course. One of the things I focus on heavily is helping traders build a successful mindset. Here is an excerpt below about one of the most common pitfalls traders fall into that…
Today I’m going to share an unconventional approach to creating a successful forex trading mindset I employ every day before I hit the buy/sell button. A small confession though – it actually took me a while to realize it was a major ingredient in my success. The funny thing is, I never read it in…
There is a story about a beggar several hundred years ago from a small village. He was orphaned at a young age, and with no education and family, he had to fend for himself. He was reasonably intelligent and able, despite his challenging start. Living in a small village his whole life, since the village was…