Trading Psychology

Stock Market Crash Paranoia or even just fears of a correction, can result in bad decision-making for a trader. Traders and investors more than ever, are suffering from stock market crash paranoia and when the house of cards will finally come crashing down.

You read the title and you probably think that I have lost my mind to say that getting stopped out of a trade is a good thing – especially when the objective of trading is to make money…and not lose money! No, I get it! Nobody likes being stopped out of a trade and I

I assume the worst from my trades, that they will always be unprofitable For most of you that is probably the most asinine statement you’ve ever heard a trader make when it comes to managing trading losses. But it is true! I don’t look at my next trade as one that I will make a

Trading stocks is hard and there are times where you just want to pull out all your hair! I know that feeling (which explains some of the hair-loss issues) because it comes from that notion that nothing can go right and it seems like Mr. Market has singled you out to humiliate and destroy you.

At first trading seems extremely simple, and compared to many other occupations, it is. But then you jump in and it doesn’t take long until you realize that it isn’t that simple. In fact most clients that come to me are rather astute individuals, yet they are feeling quite humbled because they’ve not been able

When I got seriously interested in dividend investing about two years back, that was pretty much all the type of trading I did.  I muddled through how these things moved and paid out, weighed the tax advantages, and so on.  A lot of times I took small losses or broke even capturing the payouts because

While browsing for my hourly digest of nonstop pessimism on ZeroHedge, I felt a tremor in the Force.  A feeling I had not felt since….  Well I look over and recognize that familiar iBankCoin calling card. I’m just wondering, are they making enough money that they can afford to advertise for the gravy, or are

Edgy has been tied up in the Bears' basement for the past week, looking at his TNA position and re-evaluating his life. Thanks to the TD Ameritrade server breakdown fiasco last Friday, I didn't know I was even in TNA until an hour and a half later.  At the time, I was up for a

As Wayne and Garth would say while playing street hockey, after a car drove by, “Game On!”  The Bear Trap I posted about a few days ago is over, and whatever-the-heck this market wants to do may now resume in whatever direction it will go.

After months of laying low in this blogosphere, I've decided to emerge in these trying times to share my latest creation..er recreation of some of the great stuff I've been reading.  Honestly, I was getting annoyed at the image sharing features of this blog, and just didn't feel like fooling with it.  Sorry I didn't