January 29th, 2010

Money Management 5 of 7

One of the basic laws to be used with the win-loss ratio is good money management.  A win-loss ratio can
be improved with good money management.
The first rule is to trade money you don’t need.  If you don’t need the money then you can be more in
control of your emotions and your trading.  Make sure that [...]

January 22nd, 2010

Win-Loss Ratio 4 of 7

How do you establish a win-loss ratio?  How many trades do you need to do?  The more trades the better
but you will need at least 100.  We like to break in down in to groups of 20 trades and see what the
ratio is on this small group of trades.  If your ratio gets better after [...]

December 22nd, 2009

A Hole New World; Moving From Demo To Live Trading 2 of 7

Trading is not a natural endeavor for us.  We have no basic skills or understanding of how it works when
we first start out.  We have to learn from scratch.  Everyone has to start somewhere.  Some new traders
have the all or nothing attitude with little or no training and soon lose some of their trades.  Once [...]

November 4th, 2009

Four Thoughts on Discipline in Trading

We have summarized the comments of 4 traders about being a more disciplined trader.
A day traders comments: He is a consistent trader his accuracy was good but would have
a blow up one day a month and lose a lot of what he had made. When he realized that
being right is not the key to making [...]