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Two common sayings worth following are “Accept what the markets give you” and “Don’t impose your will onto the markets.” As a dominant species, humans are used to control ..

One way to cultivate a winning mental edge is to have an accurate perception of what you can and cannot control. There’s a powerful human desire to believe that one can have complete control ove ..

We have a strong need to make sense of our past. The thinking goes something like this: If we can make sense of our past, we could predict our future. This kind of thinking is especially true in tradi ..

Jim has just made nine winning trades in a row. He feels as if he has his methods down and can trade profitably under any market condition. Some might say that Jim is a little overconfident. He’ ..

To some extent, fundamentals drive prices, but in the end, the price of a stock or commodity is largely a matter of opinion. Opinions consist of “soft” data, data that is messy, flimsy, an ..

Many amateur, online investors can’t wait to make trades and a lot of them. Most of the trades are unprofitable, though, generating commissions for the brokerage and providing sources of profits ..

If you’re like most traders, you’ve made trades that you have regretted. Perhaps you misjudged the markets or acted on impulse, but all you knew, in the end, was that you lost money, and y ..

Are you having a bad day? Has media coverage spoiled your trading plan? Perhaps you are just feeling a little off? When you encounter an unexpected setback, you can feel beaten down. You might be temp ..

Joe tells his trading coach, “I’ve been paper trading for six months, and I’ve been right 85% of the time, but I still have trouble pulling the trigger. It’s the 15% of the tim ..

When trading the markets, it often easy to make a big deal about nothing. We believe in the “must trade,” a trade we think we have to make, and unless we do, we feel that we missed out on ..