Sentences with phrase «accept trading losses»

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They failed to forecast the predictable backlash by those unwilling to accept low wages and the loss of factory jobs as a fair price to pay for the benefits of free trade.

This strategy involves building around a young core, trading away useful players for future assets, and accepting losses as these green players gain experience and learn on the job.

One of the biggest problems for beginning traders, one that often causes them to blow out their accounts and give up, is accepting that losses are part of the trading game.

95 % of the traders lose money» and it has widely been accepted... taking the 2 % risk as a discipline of trading, though it may not be right or true, the loss is limited to that extent.

It's easy to accept your losses and move on when you're playing around with fake money, but you will start questioning every aspect of your commodity trading by the time you hit the real markets and lose money for the first time.

My way of avoiding fear is accepting the risk of a loss before I put the trade on.

In my small unique book «The small stock trader» I also had more detailed overview of tens of stock trading mistakes (http://thesmallstocktrader.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/stock-day-trading-mistakessinceserrors-that-cause-90-of-stock-traders-lose-money/): • EGO (thinking you are a walking think tank, not accepting and learning from you mistakes, etc.) • Lack of passion and entering into stock trading with unrealistic expectations about the learning time and performance, without realizing that it often takes 4 - 5 years to learn how it works and that even +50 % annual performance in the long run is very good • Poor self - esteem / self - knowledge • Lack of focus • Not working ward enough and treating your stock trading as a hobby instead of a small business • Lack of knowledge and experience • Trying to imitate others instead of developing your unique stock trading philosophy that suits best to your personality • Listening to others instead of doing your own research • Lack of recordkeeping • Overanalyzing and overcomplicating things (Zen - like simplicity is the key) • Lack of flexibility to adapt to the always / quick - changing stock market • Lack of patience to learn stock trading properly, wait to enter into the positions and let the winners run (inpatience results in overtrading, which in turn results in high transaction costs) • Lack of stock trading plan that defines your goals, entry / exit points, etc. • Lack of risk management rules on stop losses, position sizing, leverage, diversification, etc. • Lack of discipline to stick to your stock trading plan and risk management rules • Getting emotional (fear, greed, hope, revenge, regret, bragging, getting overconfident after big wins, sheep - like crowd - following behavior, etc.) • Not knowing and understanding the competition • Not knowing the catalysts that trigger stock price changes • Averaging down (adding to losers instead of adding to winners) • Putting your stock trading capital in 1 - 2 or more than 6 - 7 stocks instead of diversifying into about 5 stocks • Bottom / top fishing • Not understanding the specifics of short selling • Missing this market / industry / stock connection, the big picture, and only focusing on the specific stocks • Trying to predict the market / economy instead of just listening to it and going against the trend instead of following it

The best course of action is almost always to set and forget your trades and either take the loss from the risk that you accepted prior to taking the trade, or take a nice profit if the trade moves in your favor.

One must be able to accept the inevitable losses when trading.

You're absolutely right about accepting losses in a trade.

The reason so many traders lose money is because they simply will not take small losses, or they don't fully accept the risk on any ONE trade.

At least I accept losing trades but need to learn how to cut losses when I know my stops will be hit!!

I rarely move to breakeven because I fully accept that losing is part of the game and that any trade could lose; you have to embrace losing if you want to make money long - term, so you really just need to accept that you will have losses and get over it.

The trader has fully accepted financially and emotionally that trading in the forex market involves risk and that he or she can only attempt to calculate this risk without any complete assurance that there will not be a loss.

There is nothing wrong in accepting a loss for a trade that goes against you for a stock that is more promising, but firstly your normal advocacy is to buy more of a falling stock, and secondly your investment plan should keep you out of illiquid stocks.

They do a lot of day trading for which they are undermargined; thus, they are unable to accept small losses.

Some speculators don't have the temperament to accept small losses in a trade or the patience to let winners ride.

Not following a disciplined trading program leads to accepting large losses and small profits.

Accept that losses are part of the reality of trading and stick to your plan.