Sentences with phrase «than a trader»

As an individual investor, your time horizon is considerably longer than a trader.

You are a collector of income - producing stocks rather than a trader.

Remember that the investors that buy and hold almost always do better than traders — and this is true of all mutual funds including ETFs.

Others blame new trading technology that moved faster than traders understood.

Costs: Because investors tend to buy and hold securities for long periods of time and engage in fewer trades, they can generally expect lower transaction costs and taxes than traders.

Now I think about that, it's v tempting, but these days I much prefer to be an investor than a trader.

If you approach binary options trading with care and do some research, you can always expect better trading results than those traders who trade mindlessly.

Thank you very much Nail, I was surprised that after one year of my trading I am thinking much more like gambler than trader.

The loss that is bigger than the trader's deposit is a direct loss of the Forex broker.

Traders who jump around from the 5 minute chart to the 30 minute chart and back again, are naturally less likely to have a consistent and smooth long - term equity curve than those traders who put their focus mainly on the daily charts.

Simply by being in a position, by having «skin in the game» so to speak, you may view the chart differently than a trader who has not taken a position in that market.

Traders who just jump in and out of the market on emotion and greed, will not only suffer many more losing trades, but they will also rack up a lot more fees via spreads and (or) commissions over the course of a year than traders who stick to the higher time frames and understand the value of self discipline and having patience.

What you do not need is a T.V. in your trading room blasting CNBC or any other financial TV program, typically these programs are distractions because they are little more than opinions of «experts» who are probably better commentators than traders.

If you risk a set amount on each trade and it's equal to just 1 % or 2 % of your balance, you're better off than the trader calculating 10 % positions.

This is exactly the same as two traders starting out with different size trading accounts, one large, one small and the trader with small account might find after 3 years of trading he has a lot more money in his account than the trader who started with the large account.

A random entry method based on flipping a coin would probably make more money than a trader following 3 different trading methods and running around looking for the Holy Grail every day.

Bubbles can go on much longer than traders.

In fact, if you are like many people trading the forex market, you are probably more of a gambler than a trader.

«I also think that the brokerage industry and the wire houses are changing their business models to look more like financial advisory shops and they are taking more of a portfolio management approach to investing rather than a trader's approach,» he adds.

That's why «overbought» markets often become even more «overbought» than traders would expect before eventually entering into a substantial correction.