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It seems so easy: Find a good setup, place a bet, close out the trade and take home the profits. Enduring trading success is easier said than done, however. Trading experts note that even those trader ..

“Trading is like gambling.” Some say trading “is” gambling, but for now, let’s just focus on the proposition that trading is analogous to gambling. An analogy is a compar ..

Trading requires getting in the zone; it’s a flow experience. When seasoned traders place their trades, all their attention is focused on the trade. Their experiences are heightened and everythi ..

During Thanksgiving dinner, Jack tells his wife, “What do I have to be thankful for? I’ve made a bunch of bad trades all last month. My life could be going a lot better than it is.” ..

There are times when going with your “gut” instinct can be shrewdly accurate, but at other times, your instincts can be dead wrong. The human mind is capable of making decisions without fu ..

After carefully studying the fundamentals of a tech stock, Jack decided to buy 1,000 shares at $60 a share. After a recent product announcement, however, it traded at $64. Although it was higher than ..

There are many ways to trade, and traders can have as many different kinds of personality traits as there are ways to trade profitably. But if you want to trade chaotic, fast-paced markets in the shor ..

Please note, this is a guest chapter, and I’ve not authored this. This chapter on ETFs is authored by my colleague, Bhuvan. However, I’ll try and answer all the follow on queries that you& ..

A fundamental truth of trading is that one must take full and complete responsibility for both failures and successes. It’s easy to take credit for a winning trade, but a losing trade? Our first ..

As traders, we’ve all experienced a memorably bad day when nothing seemed to go right. In fact, it may have seemed as though every decision we made could not have been more wrong, even if we had a c ..