Psychology

Most trading psychology articles encourage you to work on your weaknesses, but it’s equally important to keep building on your strengths.

If you feel frustrated over your performance, don’t worry. It may be that you’re forgetting a few basic truths about trading.

Have you successfully formed the habits that you said you would at the start of the year? If you haven’t, then here are four tips that might help you get closer to your goals.

If you find yourself having to work on the same set of trading issues or problems month after month or year after year, then you might need to address any of these concerns.

It’s no secret that trading can bring a lot of pressure and stress. Here are some of the likely roots of trading anxiety and how you can fix them.

Instead of taking responsibility for a bad trade, we blame the market, our broker, and sometimes even the cat outside the window. Are you guilty of any of these habits?

Do you let your past mistakes dictate the way you manage your future trades? If you are, then it’s time to stop letting regret keep you from taking trades.

If done correctly, deliberate practice can not only help speed up your learning process. Just be mindful of these pitfalls that might sabotage its effect!

Being “in the zone” comes down to how well you can maintain focus and pure concentration. Here are some tips on how you can apply this in forex trading.

For many traders, the problem isn’t in making the needed process changes, but in failing to follow through. Here are two practices that might help you sustain your planned trading changes.

Being properly funded will allow you to sweat out drawdowns and give you a higher chance of surviving long enough so that you may experience big wins.

Processing market information and making quick trading decisions can be a challenge for most of us. Here are some tips that might help.

Sure, there’s plenty of news events to trade these days, but trying to play all these catalysts may not be the best decision for your trading account.

Consistently profitable trading requires focus, so you’ll need your mind and body in top form to execute your strategies flawlessly.

Self-improvement activities like trade journaling or deliberate practice would make you a consistently profitable trader faster than simply hunting for good trade setups. Here’s why.

Whether you’re growing one big winning trade or you’re in a winning streak, here are points that might help you keep you level-headed and winning.

If you’ve done your trading preparation and stuck to your trading plan and you STILL lose your trade, can you then blame the markets?

A way to speed up your trading development is through bouncing setups around with other traders. Here are some DOs and DON’Ts when sharing trade ideas.

The importance of growing psychological capital is probably even more important than increasing your account balance when talking about long-term trading success.

It’s no secret that financial trading comes with plenty of risk, particularly when it comes to losing hard-earned money, but there are even more risks that might creep up on you.