After reading your article, I am aware of my mistakes and would definitely apply the idea
of having a trade plan with proper risk reward ratio and also using price action to trade instead of all those lagging indicators.
Great article Nial, as a member of your course I know that you placed a lot of emphasis
on having a trading plan, and yet I still haven't put one together, I must be glutton for punishment.
Once you have been trading long enough it seems that being patient and
discipline having a trading plan is a lot easier than winning a few times through random trades and blowing your account to pieces time and time again.
Its been 6 yrs fx trading and i am returning back to the basics of Discipline you have written about... I think to start a new by moving up to 4 hr and daily from the smaller charts...
also having a trading plan written down on paper so to review how well I followed my plan... I have been to emotionally tied to my trades, i think the above changes will break this link..
The title is correct and the vast majority of traders lose money in managed futures because they do not
have a trading plan -LSB-...]
As I say to all my students, the greatest traders are in fact people that can
have a trading plan conditional element, but then use what I call the «gut feel element» and the «internal emotional filter», or put simply; they use market experience and screen time to help make quick on - the - spot trigger decisions.
Also, if you want to avoid leverage when first starting out, you could always start trading the underlying without any leverage, but you should
still have a trading plan in place first.
It is important to
have a trading plan for every possibility and, because a hard fork is becoming more and more likely at this point, finding support zones on high time frames is important.
But, the bottom line is that if you did
not have a trading plan in 2011, or you had one but didn't use it, you need to vow to create a solid Forex trading plan in 2012.
Thank you for the wonderful articles, Sir, please I have a question for you; Please sir, i am just a beginner and need to travel far in the forex trading, What is mean to
have trading plan?
we simply must
have a trading plan and follow it.
It seems silly I know, but it's very true; many traders simply don't have a trading strategy mastered, they don't
have a trading plan, trading journal, etc... they simply aren't prepared to risk real money in the markets yet... thus they feel fear when they trade.
This time feels a little different...
Have a trading plan...
The key is to
have a trading plan.
Having a trading plan makes loses easier to accept... wow... what a great reason to have a trading plan, as opposed to so many other people who never really give good, logical reasons to have a trading plan.
I have a trading plan but much too complex.
Do not be a bear or a bull...
have a trading plan and -LSB-...]
I get a lot of emails from traders regarding Forex trading plans, and from reading these emails I have found that most traders either do not
have a trading plan, make their trading plan too complicated, or don't know how to build one.
Please watch this short video and understand you need to
have a trading plan if you want your money to work for you overtime or compound.
Once
you have a trading plan that uses a proper risk - reward ratio, the next challenge is to stick to the plan.
This is why as a trend follower
we have a trading plan.
They have a trading plan, they have a trading journal, and they know what they are looking for in the markets.
The first lesson Axe can teach us is how important it is to
have a trading plan.
Having a trading plan and a trading journal and actually using them will go a long way towards turning you into an organized and consistently disciplined trader.
If
you have your trading plan in your computer, open it before the trading session each day.
Instead of worrying,
have a trading plan that you can actually follow.
Market analysis needs to be structured; most traders have no structure to their daily routine which is a result of not
having a trading plan.
As always you need to
have a trading plan.
Gamblers make random bets in casinos or elsewhere, and traders who don't
have trading plans or who don't follow their trading edge are also gamblers.