This hit Wall Street's traders and investors particularly hard, as many pros had been caught on
the wrong side of the trade.
Rather than potentially catching
the wrong side of a trade, the best solution is often to ignore the noise, focus on the big picture, and on occasion, repress your loss - aversion instincts.
News impact on currency CFDs is very fast and huge; you do not want to end up on
the wrong side of the trade.
Yet because people don't want to be caught on
the wrong side of a trade, «as you get closer and closer to that time, people pull out.
If you're on
the wrong side of the trade it could go horribly wrong however and for that very reason, such trading practices do require the use of stop - loss limits and sufficient liquidity to manage any margin calls in event that stop - loss limits have not been triggered, but trades are on the wrong side.
However, one word of caution — the commodity market can be extremely volatile, and your account can be crushed in minutes if you end up on
the wrong side of a trade.
Placing our opinions on the correctness of price clouds our vision of it and invariably places us on
the wrong side of a trade.
The traders, investors, and hedge funds that blew up generally made the error of having «all in» big bets that did not work out, letting an ego keep them on
the wrong side of a trade, or went into a position without an exit strategy giving themselves unlimited risk.
Even with perfect information you could not have predicted how the stock market would react to various events, and most of us would have bet on
the wrong side of the trade.
One day, he'll be on
the wrong side of the trade and without a proper plan in place, he won't be so lucky.
Using a fully margined account and being on
the wrong side of a trade, only a small move is required to almost instantly end what otherwise might have been a promising trading career.
But what do you do when you are on
the wrong side of a trade?
As a corporate bond manager, when I got on
the wrong side of a trade, I would call my analyst to me and ask her for her unbiased opinion.
With the entry of new money from institutional investors, volatility levels could get out of hand, to the disadvantage of a normal investor on
the wrong side of a trade.