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

  • You Will Have To Do This Trading

    The Rosy Picture I know the idea of being a professional trader will seem like a rosy picture, but the fact of the matter is you are going to face some tough times as a trader. You will have to do many things to be a successful and professional trader (or successful/professional anything for that…

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  • 2 Tips for Placing Highly Effective Stops

    One of the more difficult aspects for traders is placing highly effective stops. Either most beginning traders place stops too tight or too far away.  Place stops too close to your entry and they are likely to get hit.  Too loose and they unbalance your risk/reward ratios. In today’s article, I’m going to share 2…

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  • Trading Is Not A Fashion Contest

    There seems to be some fascination with newer/beginning traders to find this perfect setup, this small set of circumstances that give price action the appearance of a great trade opportunity. You’ve probably heard about these patterns and setups before, often referred to as Pin Bars, Engulfing Bars, Inside Bars, etc. Beginning traders become hypnotized, thinking…

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  • 2 Price Action Tips For Beginning Traders

    Today’s price action tip article is designed to give any beginning, or non-profitable trader, 2 critical tips to help accelerate your learning curve and avoid the pitfalls almost everyone falls into.  If you can learn to follow these two beginner forex trading tips, then you will find yourself making more winning trades, along with less…

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  • Developing A Successful Forex Trading Mindset Pt. 2

    In my previous article Developing A Successful Forex Mindset Pt. 1, I discussed how your trading mindset is essentially a product of three things; 1) Your Neuro-Physiological Wiring 2) Your Mindset of Level of Mindfulness 3) Your Psychological Conditioning I focused specifically on how your Neuro-Physiological Wiring, specifically how your mind and brain are integrated and…

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  • Setting Trading Goals for 2013

    Now that 2012 is wrapping up for traders, I’m guessing many of you (like myself) are dying to get into the new year of trading.  During this time, it is a fantastic opportunity to reflect upon what successes you had last year, but also what you need to work on. A common practice and tradition…

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  • 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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  • 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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