These traders accept the risks in their perspective investment strategies.
Not exact matches
Option selling is a strategy in which
traders sell options to collect premium, in return for
accepting the
risk of being forced to deliver a futures contract to the option buyer at the states strike price.
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.
Short selling is a speculative technique and only suitable for
traders willing to
accept the
risks.
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
Forex trading is a game of
risk and reward, and since there is
risk involved with every trade you take, you need to
accept that
risk and look at it as the price of being a
trader, and embrace it.
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.
Instead, manage
risk properly and just
accept losing trades as a cost of being a
trader / doing business in the market.
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.
You can choose, you can try to get into Harvard in order to become a successful
trader or you can learn financial
risk management &
accept the inherent uncertainty in the markets.