Among the traders that I’ve communicated with over the years, the ones that struggle the most tend to be intermediate-level traders.
You see, although they are well-acquainted with the trading basics, their account typically hovers between a small loss and break […]
Trading is so lucrative precisely because most people lose money at it.
After all, the more money the losers lose, the more money the winners make.
But hang on… why do the losing traders lose so much in the first place?
Think about […]
Imagine you are thrown into a jungle and have to survive for 30 days.
You have a guide book that describes the native plants, telling you which ones are poisonous, and which ones are edible or have medicinal properties.
After a few […]
Trading is a deeply personal activity.
Like painting or singing, it’s not something most people would want to do in public.
Why?
Because these activities are focused on the training process – where mistakes are often made.
As non-professionals, any time we paint, sing, […]
If I had to use a metaphor, I’d say that trading is a lot like predicting the actions of shoppers in a mall.
At the individual level, I can’t accurately predict if a particular shopper is going into walk into Levi’s […]
A few weeks ago I was speaking with a new acquaintance who, upon finding out that I’m a Forex trader, started bragging about a friend who turned $20,000 into $2,000,000 by selling the Yen in 2014.
Almost immediately, my bullsh*t meter […]
Victor Niederhoffer was a wildly successful hedge fund manager who was invited to partner up with George Soros in 1982.
Later, he decided to stop working with George Soros because he wanted to move on and do his own thing.
Soros was […]
As far as I know, trading Forex as a business is the best way to make a living.
Why?
Because it’s much more than just a way to make money (for clarity, check out my About page).
You see, […]
In the early 1950s, psychologist Soloman Asch carried out an experiment that would later go on to become a classic study of human behavior.
Imagine you are 1 of 6 people sitting in a classroom, in preparation for an observation test.
An […]
A complainer is someone well equipped with reasons to justify his inaction to an unsatisfactory situation.
Often, you’ll hear a complainer say: “If only I had X, I’d achieve Y!”
Complainers are unwilling to work on a problem until the stars are […]