Let’s begin with the
markets themselves, and with fear and greed.
We have all heard the cliches about
fear and greed.
They rule the markets.
How many times we hear
that trading Forex is risky?
So many people has burn
their account in their quest to achieve their financial goals?
I know because I have blown my account too.
Not once but 3 times....
OVERCOMING FEAR AND GREED
We all have to deal with
our runaway emotions at various times in life, and these
emotions really begin to
run away when we trade.
Bill Williams used to say in his seminars that trading was
the clearest window into your own personal psychology, clearer than any other
endeavor. I think he was right.
UNDERSTANDING THE MARKETS
We give in to our fear
when we don’t take the next trade because we’ve just been
through a string of
losers and fear losing again.
We give in to our fear when we put our stop loss too
close and get stopped out of a trade without giving the trade enough room to develop.
We give in to our fear when we freeze as a trade starts to lose money, and we
don’t take the exit signal because we’re afraid of losing money.
We give in to our greed
when we take a profit early, before the regular signal,
because we don’t want to
give back any of the profits.
We give in to our greed when we trade more
contracts or shares than we normally would because we feel good about this trade.
STRATEGY TRADING: MAKING
GOOD BUSINESS SENSE
For me, strategy trading
is the only answer to the problem of fear and greed, and it
is the only logical way
to take advantage of the concept of Market Facilitation.
First, trading a strategy
provides the discipline necessary to begin overcoming fear
and greed.
Trading a
strategy that has been back tested on historical, quantifiable data is a major way to
inject discipline into your trading and to begin to control your fear and greed.
If
we think of a trading strategy as a small business, we can design our business to
make money based on historical simulations.
THE ADVANTAGE OF
TECHNOLOGY
Anyone serious about
finding a profitable strategy should use the latest technology
and the best software
available.
This means learning how to use a computer.
You have to test a set of indicators to see if they are profitable.
You need to test them through the chart history and then apply it on your live trading.
If
these indicators didn’t prove to be profitable, the process had to be repeated for the
next month with revised indicators.
This process continued month after month.
It
would sometimes take me three to six months to find a strategy that would work
under current market conditions.
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