Alessio Rastani: How To NOT Be A Trading Douche…

Sorry if the title to this post offends you, but I think it’s funny and drives a VERY important point about what it takes to be successful at trading. Trading is difficult for one reason and one reason ONLY. Because it forces you to make psychologically impossible decisions: Buying when everyone is scared, selling when [...]

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Is Trading A Business Or A Gambler’s Playground?

This article is by our guest contributor and trader Goncalo Botelho. When I usually mention to people I’m a trader, it doesn’t take long until they throw out the word “play” somewhere into the conversation and it hits me every single time. This notion that trading is somehow a casino game brings a lot of [...]

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Trading Success | Forget Technical Indicators And Learn How To Trade

It’s amazing to me how many traders I meet who have completely the wrong idea of what it means to trade successfully. Let me make it clear. Trading success and profitabiliy have absolutely NOTHING to do with the following: Owning or using the next “holy grail” fancy technical indicator; Tweaking the settings of your fancy [...]

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Trading And The Markets Q&A | Answers To Readers Questions

Last week as my facebook page hit 11,000 followers I asked my facebook followers to send me their questions to be answered on this blog.  Not all the questions posed where trading related (one was about who cuts my hair).  In any case, I have selected below the questions that I felt were worthy of [...]

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Top 4 B.S. Lies Told About Trading The Markets

In the video in this post I would like to share with you the top 4 B.S. pieces of nonsense I have ever heard about trading the markets. I have been in the trading industry for nearly 6 years and I keep coming across the same garbage across the internet, books and online courses. I [...]

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Trading Psychology | Do You Want To Be Right Or Do You Want To Make Money?

There seems to be an unspoken assumption that professional traders have to be “right” when they make a call on a stock or a market.  This assumption, in my view, is made by the majority of the public and by novice traders. One of the best lessons I learnt in my trading career is

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Best Trading Books | 5 Books That Will Transform Your Trading

I often get asked which books I would recommend for trading. If I had to make a list, I would not have to think hard as to which ones would be at the top of my list. The books listed below are what I consider to be some of the books that really helped me [...]

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Online Stock Trading | How To Buy Stocks Online

Although I would not personally recommend buying stocks in this current economic turmoil, here is a popular video that I made some time ago as to how you would go about doing it. If you are going to buy any stocks at all, you need to invest wisely and do your research.  Do not gamble! [...]

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3 Valuable Trading Lessons I Learnt 10 Years Ago

As I reached my 34th Birthday last month, I wanted to share with you 3 important lessons or turning points in my trading career that I think any aspiring trader or investor could learn from: Lesson 1:  Your desire to “win” is the problem They say that the worst thing in life is not death, [...]

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5 Lessons The World Cup Can Teach Stock Market Investors

As we draw near to the finals of World Cup 2010, if anything can be said about this tournament, it is that it has been full of unpredictable outcomes. Who could have predicted that former World Cup champions, Italy and France, would be knocked out in the group stages, not to mention that both came [...]

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