Trading Psychology Articles

• The Trading Psychology Spiral - You go long and the market immediately goes down - you go short and the market immediately goes up. That's 2 consecutive losses, and you are getting a little...

• Trading Psychology vs Trading Method - It is said that trading is 90% psychological and 10% methodological. Does this then imply that regardless of trading method, a trader that has control over...

• The Trading Psychology Plan - And what a great analogy 'string up' is, because after all those months of paper trading winners are replaced with real money losses, that is exactly...

• The Psychology of Markets - We know that greed and fear rule the markets. But did you know that when investors gets too greedy, markets usually fall, and when investors are overcome...

• Investing Psychology - Know Thyself - For the astute investor there's always opportunities to buy investments (stocks, bonds, commodities, mutual funds, etc.) before "the crowd" finds out and...

• A Rational or Emotional Decision - There are many ways in which emotions influence your investment decisions. This influence of (emotional) behavior on finance is a (not that of a) new branch...

• Psychology of the Winning Trader - It is said that nine out of every ten traders loose money. It is also said that day trading is seventy five percent psychology and the other twenty five...

• Are we Lemmings, or are we Traders? - Think of any stock market bull rally that is nearing a top. Volume spikes as traders rush to buy stocks they would not have even looked at a few days or week...

• How to Bounce Back from a Bad Trade - Everyone makes mistakes in the markets. But, how do you bounce back and pull back from a bad trade? There's really no such thing as a perfect trader...

• Fear and Greed in Trading - There is an old saying that the market is driven by fear and greed. Anyone that has placed more than a couple of trades will surely have experienced these...