"Retail traders" refers to individual investors or small-scale traders who participate in financial markets by buying and selling stocks, commodities, or currencies for their personal investments or trading purposes. They are distinct from institutional traders or larger financial institutions.
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No wonder 95 %
of retail traders lose 95 % of initial capital in the first few months of live trading.
If day trading is only about trading rapidly throughout the day, then it is not a game
for retail traders like us.
This service costs thousands of dollars a month, effectively priced out of the reach of
most retail traders.
However, bitcoin futures are expected to eventually bring the liquidity and stability demanded by
small retail traders and large institutional traders alike.
What does this mean for the
average retail trader with a relatively small trading account of say $ 5,000 or less?
This can explained by the widely followed nature of pivot points
from retail traders, floor traders to professionals and institutions.
However as forex trading becomes more accessible and popular
among retail traders, the forex markets has started to become more prone to fraud.
Since
retail traders do not have deep pockets (if you do, you are an institutional trader), we need to control our risk with little pockets of money each time.
Once attached to the chart, it provides you with detailed information about trading positions of
other retail traders.
It's based on the stuff going on behind the scenes to create certain patterns... patterns that the market makers use to lure average
retail traders into buying or selling.
The problem is when there is sufficiently high liquidity in a stock (free shares trading daily because no floor trader /
retail traders wants to hold them) invites a falling stock price.
Although financial products often include the disclaimer that «past performance is not indicative of future results,»
retail traders still believe they can predict the future by studying the past.
Because of the influx of more and
more retail traders, more people are susceptible to these strategies.
When bitcoin gets a lot of positive press — especially from the mainstream media —
retail traders tend to buy more of it.
Most
retail traders opt for discount brokerages because of the low amounts charged on trade commissions.
How do professional traders differ from most
retail traders stumbling through the inevitable journey from failure to success?
Current supply and demand forces determine the magnitude of the bid / ask spread, influenced by liquidity providers,
independent retail traders and institutional investors.
I really appreciate your writings on trader psychology and you know well how many of us think (
retail traders jumping from one system to the next, etc...).
For premium brokers, the account opening requirements is usually higher and often beyond the financial capability of the
small retail trader.
The tools provided by this software are not meant
for retail traders as the level of trading here is beyond the comprehension of retail participants in the market.
It is obvious, however, that the target customer is really the serious option trader who possesses somewhat better technical and financial acumen compared to the
average retail trader.
Price action trading is one of the most important but often overlooked trading strategy by
many retail traders.
Click the tabs below to view the rates that apply to
most retail traders and understand all the costs associated with trading futures.
This can explained by the widely followed nature of pivot points
from retail traders, floor traders to professionals and institutions.
A growing number of hedge funds and even
retail traders in the stock market are exploring the concept of algorithmic trading strategies.
Here, we highlight four of those biases that are common among
retail traders who trade within their individual brokerage accounts.
Sterling's Day Trading Forex Live system, for instance, actually waits for the banks and other smart money to perform stop runs
on retail traders.
Because shorting stocks is a short term strategy and most
retail traders lose money on short term strategies, it's rarely a good idea to short a stock as a way to forecast market movement.