If you want to trade successfully there are some rules you need to follow. For example picking a good trade and avoiding the bad ones. A bad choice carries big losses since they are detrimental to your self-confidence. You need to make a lot of decisions during your trading day. Without systematic discipline emotional impulses will ruin your trading skills since you will be choosing the wrong tools in wrong time.
Many short-term traders take trading as some sort of gambling. Without planning and discipline they are throwing out their money to the market. Some of them may make one or two accidental winning trades that only confirm this gambling attitude that will lead them to total collapse. Without discipline and money management these people quickly become victims of market.
Technical analysis teach trader to follow the rules based on numbers and timing. It helps to develop discipline that allows a trader to distance form his gambling attitude. Through consistent trade execution and right money management system trader begins working in market and stops gambling.
Market repeats the same patterns many times. The science of trend following helps you to build your system rules based on those repeated patterns and avoid chasing the shadows of profit.
The following golden rules will help you to avoid many mistakes in your trading and make it more consistently profitable.
1. Forget the news watch the charts. If you are not very confident in your experience of defining how the news will affect price movement watch the charts. They have already incorporated all the news in themselves.
2. If trend is up buy at the first retracement form the new maximum. If trend is down sell at the first retracement form the new price minimum. There is always an opportunity.
3. Buy as close to the support level and sell as close to the resistance level as possible. Everyone sees the same levels and waiting for the opportunity to take a trade at those lines.
4. Short rallies are not sell offs. When price retraces sellers take profit and market is ready to continue its major trend.
5. Do not buy below the main moving average and do not sell above the main moving average.
6. Do not chaise the move if you don't know where you will be exiting. Let's say you entered the market and it reversed you need to know exactly where are you going to exit to cut your losses.
7. Trends test the previous support and resistance levels. You can enter the market at those levels even if they are breached a little.
8. Always trade along the trend. Do not be a hero. Go along the trend.
9. Price has a memory. Whatever it did the last time it will probably do again at the same level.
10. Trends rarely reverse abruptly. First sell off always find its buyers. Look for consolidation patterns.
Albert Schmidt is a part-time currency trader. After quite a long time of struggle he learned to make consistent profit trading in Forex. Review a trading strategy he successfully uses in his trading Forex. |
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