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Share Trading: Is it a Better Business ?? For Whom ???Put 10k in the market, buy stocks worth 50k or more on leverage and sell at 1k profit which is 10% profit on the investment capital..That's amazing!! Isn't it? The bad part is, the anomalies to this hypothesis adversely impacts more than 90% of time. And the so called 'better business' turns out to be a losing affair for more than 90% of our trading community. Let's first discuss about our losing 90% trading community: A beginner takes his first trade on hunch and wins.. beginners luck..builds confidence..takes second trade and wins..no fear..may be he wins a couple of more and the beginner increases the trade size..over confidence and greed..he starts losing and bursts his account in aggressive attempts to win back profits at first and regain the losses lately. What went wrong with this beginner? Greed prevailed rationality Lack of strategy or Edge in the markets Revenge attitude What about the remaining less than 10% of the trading community? The most successful ones start with a predefined strategy..primary reliance on trade management..patterns and techniques come next..backtesting the strategy..paper trading..followed by real trading..flexible approach as far as the edge in the market is concerned..no fear..no greed..just exact plan execution. So what makes these 10% better over the others? The answer is..some important traits. Let's briefly discuss some of these important traits. Trade management Pros are always ready to miss a trade not qualifying the pre defined risk to reward ratio. Normally 1:1 RRR is good, 1:2 is better and anything higher than that is the best. Not only RRR but trade management also involves trade sizing which is a subset of RRR. Suppose I want to take max. risk Rs. 1000 on a trade. On a particular set up, my stop comes out to be 2 points on a 200 Rs. stock. In this case my trade size would be 500 shares..just an example. Edge in the market OR the strategy which tells where, when and why to buy or sell. It could be a candlestick pattern or a combination of patterns. It could be an indicator buy or sell signal. The key here is to have patience for the signal. If there are multiple confirmations confluencing at the signal, it would be a high probability setup. Our Edge in the market and trade management then go hand in hand to make our day. No fear no greed According to best practitioners it's good to take some profits off the table at first predefined target. B'coz no matter how high probability the set up is, there are always some chances that it could turn out to be a loser. Remaining position can be trailed for substantial bonus gains. If a trade does not go in favor at first instance, just get out at predefined stop without extending losses. Suppressing greed would definitely improve win to loss ratio. Greed kills but fear is a psychological breakdown. Fear bores over-protection in the trader. The trader may miss several best setups due to fear of failure. A beautiful trade missed is as painful as a losing trade. It has been observed that simple breathing exercises have significant impact on our cognitive functionality, which helps in overcoming fear of taking calculated risks. So who can teach the trader the cannons of best trading practices? No one but the trader himself. Of course a good mentor can make things less difficult but it all comes with practice and experience. However, the fact is that, most of us would not learn unless we lose some or most of our hard earned money. Although I deliberately missed some concepts due to time and space constraints yet I hope the brief discussion highlighted important points concerned to share trading. Do hit Like and comment. Trade safe, be healthy. Regards Bravetotrade
NSE:NIFTYEducation
by Bravetotrade
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SURVIVA : Need of the Hour !Hey Guys, Happy Weekend & this weekend is pretty long one too. Enjoy the weekend to core & try more charting which makes you better at trading. So What should be your basic expectation from Trading ?! To be Billionaire overnight ? yeah guys, millionaire not in our list anymore, too much of crowd in that zone (or) To make every trade right ? (or) To become professional trader ? (or) To make decent money everymonth ? Not yet, don't choose your options too soon because the right perception/choice : SURVIVA... Not just beginners even for those who are in trading for sometime, your main aim should be : To Survive in Trading field. Why Surviva became most important factor here ? Take a moment away from your charts, come fly with an Eagle's perception over trading world what do you see there ? Institutions, Hedge Funds, proprietary trading firms with money overflowing in their coffers,Big Sharks with deep pockets, Banks & Broking firms with best brains in the world. Not over yet, sharpen your sight, the best brains in the world compunded with advanced codes, HFT strategies which executes trade in fractional seconds, perfect analytical reports on their desk & highly productive team on demand anyday,anytime. That's an exponential combo you can't even imagine of... What does a beginner/rookie have ? An intel inside PC or Apple maybe, with non-buffering hi-speed internet for you-tubing. No, Don't land on the ground, Be the eagle...Weigh their probability of success if they face (Firms vs Rookie) against each other, watch the battle between former & later, do you think some common'er with no survival instincts or tactics, can survive this battle & come out unscathed ?? The odds are same as someone jumping out of plane without parachute & surviving. So, You or Me or Someone else can't survive here ? Only if there is Survival Instinct within you. It's broader topic : You should have a Plan, You should have discipline, You should be ruthless against your emotions - kill them, You should have the capital & Most of all you should stop your bleeding in battlefield which is losing capital gradually over time. Stop Trading till you find that way for consistent wins. A simple question friends, will you play a game if odds are stacked against you ? Will you go in for some battle knowing that you don't have plan ? Finally, will you wage a losing war ??? None will do that DOT Have a Plan n Discipline.Our aim is not to take hedge funds or bigsharks head on, we are not interested to take sides with them also. Then,what else ? We will just wait for the right opportunity to evolve in the Market & We seize them with utmost discipline. That's how SURVIVA works... We will have our part of losing trades, but we will eventually get more consistent winners than losers overtime. Don't just aim at generating profits in the Markets, SURVIVA is the mantra to sustain here... Open Discussion's most welcomed...
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by InsiderB
38
Idea: Important Lessons to be learntGreetings of the day...!!! Sharing one case where we almost paid the penalty of not listening to chart... Some days earlier we recommended a short in idea around 78 for targets of 76 and 74 Things were going good and our 1st target was achieved within hours.... Booking partial profits when target 1 was achieved was good but there after... There were some elementary mistakes that we should have taken care of and should have avoided... Here were some mistakes that we made... sharing so that one can learn and avoid those mistakes and make himself/herself a better trader .... 1. Should have trailed SL to 78.30 instead of keeping it at 79.60 Looking at the charts will suggest the importance of 78.30 The stock came out of the falling channel.... The message was clear....Chart was telling us loud and clear.... EXIT EXIT EXIT There was a clear indication and ample time to exit from short position at cost itself for balance position... but we did not obey what charts were telling us... Even at 79.60 we should have exited but were adamant and expecting the stock to fall because of bias of our postion may be & We almost paid the penalty as the stock went up to 83 thereafter but luckily for us, again charts were at rescue and suggested not to panic but add short position again and we did so around 82.25 And today we were able to book profit at 79.70 and 78.80 respectively (our avg cost of open position was 80.125) Lesson to be learnt If we are looking at charts for our trade we should Listen to charts completely... and not let our will / expectation / ego to come in between, beacuse our expectation always has a desire attached to it and we become bias which is not good .... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ So yes, Although the trade has given good profits overall ...we r not happy with the way we earned but I sign off thanking and respecting charts for helping and bailing us out this time... Regards & Take care...!!!
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by indiamarketoutlook
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