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Apr
03

​Fear of Failing in Trading

This question was sent to me from one of our students: What if you can't help it, but you are really afraid to fail as a trader. You have put so much into your desire to trade. You have a wall full of books. You have invested most of your money. You don't dare fail now, but you fear you will. How do you deal with your fear of failing? How you think and how you approach life affects how you approac...

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May
26

Becoming a Perfect Trader

As traders we have a strong need to want complete control over the outcome of a trade. We want to believe that if we analyze the markets long enough, we'll have perfect knowledge and we can trade to perfection. But such desire leads to wrong assumptions that can do us more harm than good. Assuming we must have control restricts our actions and reactions, and the result can be unnecessary stress. W...

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