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Why Most Traders Fail? Practical ReasonsAs per my personal experience the following are the most primary reasons for failure in trading - applicable to all types of new traders and all the markets. Well! this is not an exhaustive list but the most reasonable one. 🚩 No Plan of Action Trust me on this one, most traders fail to build a plan of action and fail. It is not only true for new traders but also to those who have been in this market for several years. Even if the latter have ever formulated such a plan, they would have never executed it with dedication. A couple of failures and all planning just vanishes in thin air. The trader needs answer to the following questions: What to trade? How much to trade? When to trade? Why to trade? Is it for intraday or swing trade? How much is the risk? Is risk tolerable? Is risk reward ratio favorable in this trade? Is the trade in the direction of primary trend or against it? If he answers all these questions in advance, he will not have to regret after entering the trade. This would also bring confidence 🦾 in him. 🧐 Tip Seekers New entrants would always look for tips from friends, business channels, broker or paid service providers. I don’t want to get into how this tip system works but I have never seen any tip seeker to be a successful trader. Rather I have seen many traders who lost their entire capital, even before their paid subscription was over. The harsh truth is that there is no shortcut to success in trading. Even seasoned traders have to work hard for making money. So, learning 👨‍🎓 is the first step for novice traders to approach what they seek. 🤑 Get Rich Quick Policy Everyone wants to be rich overnight so that he doesn’t have to work for the rest of his life. This attracts traders to buy penny stocks. What is more attractive than anything, with these stocks, is the quantity that can be bought. A larger number of shares with the available capital. The other thing is profit potential. Buy at 2 and sell at 4, money doubled overnight. Unfortunately, that doesn’t happen very often. Traders buy such stocks for day trade or swing trade but then they keep it for years for one simple reason that these stocks never attracted large portfolios, for some valid reason. For such traders, investment in a sound company would have been a better option 😆 Another very popular instrument which lures traders and has the potential to destroy a trader’s capital at much faster pace is 'Options', especially weekly index options. I have seen people at broker’s floor loosing millions in just few minutes. New traders should stay away from Options and always start small, may be in cash segment. 🥵 Overtrading Overtrading works like a currency shredder machine. Whatever goes in, never comes out in one piece. Its a very common practice among tape readers or those who trade on one-minute chart or less. Remember that you can either take one trade in a day or you can take 50 trades in a day. If you lose the former at tolerable risk, it would not harm your capital much. But if you make small profit after 50 trades, consider it a loss due to costs involved. If you are unable to control this habit, then just start shifting to a higher timeframe after taking the trade. It will help. 🚦 Inconsistency Say you have a plan but you are not executing it on every single trade. Your plan was to take a 1:2 risk-reward trade but sometimes you are taking 1:1 while the other times 2:1. A consistent trader would have a back-tested plan that he executes daily on every trade that he takes, no matter if that’s for a small profit every time. The trader needs to show some consistency in making small money every day/week. If he is consistent in it, then he can increase his position size for more profits and so on. All the above reasons combine together to develop indiscipline. But if you will take care of the above habits, one at a time, as discussed then rest assured that you are on the right track. Thanks for reading. I hope this was helpful 😉 Keep liking and comment for more such posts in future.
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EURUSD forecast / trades takenHey everyone. Just an update on the trade last night. As you can see we had a HTF buy range (1hr) where price came back into the discounted section. We then had a 30min range bar mitigation which created a large reaction to the upside so we can say this is where a money transfer has taken place. Subsequently this made our new buying range and yet again price came back into the discounted area and gave the lower time frame entry, there were a few ways of getting into this trade and it also gave scale ins if it was missed. Price then was heading into the daily premium region so we knew we needed to be partialing out of this trade as we pass through and mitigate the levels of supply, these supply levels were creating pullbacks to continue up however given the HTF area we are it is very wise to partial heavily where we did. Anyone everyone, theres a bit of an insight into one of the team trades last night in the Newyork session. Happy trading ladies and gents and i hope you learnt something.
by Bill-from-The-trading-Cartel
EURUSD forecast / trades takenHey everyone. Back again!! After a crazy trading session last night. Again, any questions let them rip! BFIS were happy with the price of the EQL of the HTF daily sell range last night so we sold according following intentions and had a monster trading running around 30%. We also went long in to this sell transfer prior taking around 8 risk to reward. Following expectational order flow we expected the EQL sell side liquidity to be taken so this was the end target for us. Partials were taken along the way. Now we are expecting a pull back and will be looking to trade the pullback long to then sell again last on following the daily expectations (selling form the new sell range drawn in, in premium pricing) Absolutely ready for another big session today (we hope). Crazy week so far and enjoy your day ladies and gents.
by Bill-from-The-trading-Cartel
EURUSD forecast / trades taken updateHey everyone. Just a quick update of trades running as forecasted. Reaching my tp level slowly, What a day!! currently running around 30% with plenty more % heading into my tp point. These longs today were pretty basic for me, its just rinse and repeat stuff, we had our HTF BOS then our pull back in to what caused the BOS, we had a shift in momentum on the lower time frames which gave my set up initially which was followed by a scale in This TP (supply) level is a good spot to react and look for sells however it could be short lived and only be a pull back to continue higher into premium prices so i will be very careful with risk management here. Happy trading everyone ill be back with an update and forecast tomorrow before London open
by Bill-from-The-trading-Cartel
EURUSD forecast / trades takenHey everyone. Another successful trading day has passed. Only a couple of trades we taken as forecasted in previous posts. As you can see we have finally broke the 4hr lows which ive been calling for a while and we traded according Closing all positions a few hours before the big news came out. We cut our trades prior to news as i dont want or need random news spikes in my trading, it adds risk and exposure to your account plus its banned by the prop firm who has funded me so its a great way to lose my account all together. Right now we have a massive imbalance in the market above where price is now back into the news candle. This drop tapped into a Demand zone so im expecting a pull back up (long) and will take long trades if they present. If we start seeing bearish flow mitigating ill also take sells however im preferring longs at present
by Bill-from-The-trading-Cartel
EURUSD Forecast and 15% trade running !Hey guys. Have a look at my forecast we are approaching a key level and should have a reaction. On my forecasted buy i took a BE. I was well aware it could drop back to mitigate a OB a bit further down and then go long which it did, also it didnt give an entry on the second long that i liked enough to take and then didnt give an entry at the top where i wanted sell. In saying this i managed to grab a nice little continuation down and then missed a scale in. Again like a keep saying master the liquidity or you will be the liquidity. Any questions fire away.
by Bill-from-The-trading-Cartel