FEAR

How many times have you let the perfect trade pass you by? The trade that was screaming for you to take it, but fear kept you from pulling the trigger; then once you saw what a 'fat trade' it turned out to be; you beat yourself up.

Most of us have heard that classic acronym for Fear:

F-False
E-Evidence
A-Appearing
R-Real

There are a million ways to be successful in this market, but most people defeat their own success with fear. Fear is that paralyzing emotion that happens when you feel certain that you should pull the trigger, but can't.

As a trader, Fear can be an almost constant companion.........
How do you tame this beast??? What can be done about this monster that creeps into your psyche and holds you hostage????????

If you find yourself victim to this dreadful enemy. Stop trading your real money and paper/demo trade for a while. Make note of every trade and write down what is working most of the time. When you miss it, write down what happened and what you can do to improve your odds. This will take the discipline that most people lack, but it can be a big help. Also feed yourself new messages about your ability to succeed in this market. Read about others who are doing it and how they are getting this done.

A solid education will also help tweak and perfect your skills. The Market is an arena that is always offering you an opportunity to sharpen your skills. Learn, Learn, Learn.

Practice pulling the trigger on trades that are showing you a clear advantage and practice letting them ride into glorious profit. "Remember the shorter your time frame, the shorter your profit run will be...........

You have got to talk to yourself about who you are, (ex: "I am a super forex trader, making more money in the market than I can spend.") Don't keep feeding that demon that's telling you 'this won't work for you'. The one that keeps telling you when you take a hit, 'you can't do this', or 'GOD helps everyone else but you', or any of that other nonsense......

I would say that your mental ability to play this game is even more essential to your success than your education. You can not be afraid of good smart calculated risk if you are going to win at this game.

You are looking for trades that stack the odds in your favor. Trades that are showing you a clear advantage. Trades that are begging you to come and partake of the sweetness.

Every time you enter the market you take a risk, but you want to find the lowest risk entry trades. There will be times that despite your best efforts, you will still miss it. So what, cut the legs off of that monster, save your capital and thrive to trade another day. The market is very generous and will give you the opportunity to make your loss back and so much more. If you took a hit yesterday, so what; that no longer exists. Today is a new trading day filled with new trading opportunities.

When I take a hit, I just wait for another good entry and usually I will get all of the money back that I lost in the hit and then some. THE MARKET IS VERY GENEROUS AND WILL GIVE YOU MANY OPPORTUNITIES FOR PROFITS.

1. Exceptional Trading requires discipline, patience, education, good money management and the ability to pull the trigger on a good entry in spite of any present fear.

Demo trade, Demo trade, Demo trade, and fill your head with good positive things about your ability and who you are as a trader until you are consistently profitable and until you can pull the trigger on trades with confidence.

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WHAT ARE MARKET MAKERS

In the financial markets, we often hear the term Market Makers, but who are the Market Makers and what do they do????????????

Market Makers are the people who insure that your orders get filled, they keep the market liquid. If you want to move 3,000,000 shares of xyz and there is no buyer waiting for those shares; the Market Makers will buy those shares from you even if though there is no buyer on the other end of the transaction.

Won't the Market Maker go broke doing this???????????

No the Market Makers are Banks and very large financial institution that make their money off of the the difference between the Bid/Ask price which is referred to as the spread. The spread acts to offset the risk of their buying your xyz with no seller lined up in case something goes wrong. Though the spread is often very little, millions of transactions a day creates a very lucrative profit for the Market Maker.

The Market Maker makes money by buying your xzy at 25.5 and reselling it at 25.8. The Market Marker buys low and sells high or sell high and buy low. The Market Maker takes advantages of both the buy/sell, making money in both directions as the market goes up and as the market comes down.

Can a Maker Maker lose money??????????

Sure, if the Market Maker misjudges the market sentiment thinking that the market is going to go up when it comes down. If he bought your xyz at 25.5 and it falls to 13.3, the Market Maker is in trouble if unable to get rid of those shares before price plummets .

Market Makers also get rebates from ECN's (electronic communication networks) for each share that is sold to you at the bid price. On the other hand, the trader who buys the bid of an ECN (your trading platform) is charged a fee. The Market Maker will profit regardless of what kind of order you place whether buy/sell.

In short the market maker makes it possible for you to buy/sell whether there is an existing counterpart to your trade or not for a small fee as long as there is a bid/ask price available.


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RESISTANCE, DROP

Resistance is a powerful word, but in the market it can mean the end of a long climb up the latter of a successful bullish run. Points of resistance aren't necessarily concrete, think of them more as a tightened rubber band that if you push into it to hard, it can send you plummeting very quickly.

Resistance is what it implies, a possible push against current price action. There are two correct responses you can have at a resistance, turn back (with a proper candlestick confirmation), or wait to see if the resistance is overcome, You never want to go head on into resistance because chances are you will get your butt handed to you. The other thing you don't want to do is automatically turn back without a little push. YOU DON'T ALWAYS WANT OR HAVE TO BE IN THE MARKET. There are times when you need to be on the sidelines in observation mode; at a point near resistance is one of those times. Trying to break resistance is like trying to run over a locomotive on a bicycle. You can't do it!! Your best option at resistance is to rest to see either the strength or weakness of your price action. Whether price is successful at demolishing or chipping away resistance or does a turnabout, wait until it makes a concrete decision before following. NOTE: wherever price leads, follow until you get a signal that it is no longer safe to do so, or until you have had your fill of a nice fat profit.



Let other traders jump in front of the locomotive to slow it down; DON'T YOU DO IT! Save yourself and wait until it is safe. Resistance points can either be safety zones put in place to help you protect your profits or the force and authority to crush you if you try to cross the line. When you come to a resistance point it means STOP!!!!, DO NOT PROCEED WITH CAUTION it is a RED LIGHT, when it is green, proceed with caution because there are times when price will break resistance only to fall back limp under the weight of the break through triumph.

This is not rocket science.

YES, YOU CAN DO THIS (^_^)

PRACTICE, DRILL, and REHEARSE ON YOUR DEMO!!!!!!!!!!!!
EDUCATION, EDUCATION, EDUCATION

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TAMING A HOSTILE MARKET

Every day you get up to face a hostile market where the odds are stacked against you.......

How do you Win in the face of such odds ??????????..........

You educate yourself, you practice, you practice and you practice more on your demo and never quit until all of the nonsense and backwardness of the market makes sense enough to where you are consistently profitable........

The Financial Markets are the Biggest most advanced Chess Game in the world, with some of the Richest and Savvy people on the planet as it's players.

When you are first introduced to the financial markets what you see is all of the money you can make quickly, and all of the luxuries attached to conquest.........

What you don't see is the education and hours of dedication and study that the Pros put into making this look effortless. It is by no means effortless, but is put on like a very well rehearsed play and in many instance the Actor before you has gone broke many times, but just never gave up, or the smarter Actors got a good education from the ones who went broke first.

If you find a Pro who is willing to spill her/his guts, learn everything that person has to teach even when it is repetitive, because there is a reason that teacher is stressing that point. Trading is simple with the right tools, foundation and education. You can not build a Major Highway with a hammer and nails, YOU MUST have the right tools to accomplish this. If you get a Bull Dozier, some Dump Trucks, some engineered plans etc......., then your chance of success is much greater than it would be with a hammer, nails and an idea.

With the vision, YOU MUST possess the RIGHT TOOLS. What is absolutely essential for your success is constant education and your charts are the best, most accurate teachers and they will shower you with a wealth of information if only you spend time with them listening to their wisdom........

A good start to success in the market is to understand Price action; what price has done in the past, what it is doing now and where it may be headed. You can begin this journey by picking up Steve Nison's Candlestick book at your local library, master your trend line, master your knowledge of support and resistance. If after mastering these great market jewels, you feel that you need more, then you can then add additional tools with confidence........

The market is like a treasure hunt and the one who has the best map will possess the Treasure.......Education, Education and Education!!!!!!!!!!!!

Education is the Highway out of poverty, and a MASTER KEY to success!!!!!!!!


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DON'T HUNT TRADES !!!!!!

You don't have to hunt profitable trades, if you will wait, they will come to you. LET PROFITABLE TRADES FIND THEIR WAY TO YOU!!!!!!!!!

The difference between the consistently profitable trader and the trader who is struggling is that the profitable trader has learned to let profitable trades come to her/him. The profitable trader waits for a proper trade set-up and is anticipating it, the most important thing about a consistently profitable trader is that she/he is willing to forgo a trade that does not show a clear advantage.

Great trading is more about waiting for proper trade set-ups and opportunities than it is about being smart. If you wait, proper trades will seek you out, begging you to come in and enjoy and partake of the profits. That is the master discipline that MUST be developed if you are to enjoy a good living trading.

It is hard if you feel the need to constantly be in the market. The more you are in the market the more you are exposed to risk and the more you expose yourself to risk the more likely you are to be bitten and bitten hard. You have got to develop 'THE ART OF WAITING', it is one of the master trading arts along with confidence and disciple.

YOU CAN DO THIS (^_^). Start with learning your candlestick psychology and force yourself not to trade unless you can see a clear trading advantage. Use your demo to help develop this discipline if necessary. Your charts will tell you more truth than any other source learn to read it like you read your favorite book.

Lastly WAIT for profitable trades to COME TO YOU!!!!!!!!

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ANTICIPATE

One of the biggest mistakes traders make is jumping in at the end of a price move. Once price has a direction, we expect for price to move that way forever, and either fail to secure our profits, or try to keep riding a profit train that has come to the end of the line.........



This is a costly error. Price does not continue on forever; at some point it is going to turn against the current trend. Believe me, I love to ride a good profit train and hate to get off of it, but price is only going to go to it's next destination before returning to the station or moving to a totally different one.



Your current trend will not go on forever no matter how good the news or the economy is, at some point trends like rivers develop bend and curbs and ultimately reversals. It helps if you know where the river banks are. That is where your support and resistance come in, price may turn at a resistance/support point or it may simply move sideways before finding a way to follow the current trend. These are areas that you want to pay particular attention to price action.



Most of the time, your candlesticks will show you the direction you must take at these areas. Learn to anticipate where your price is going to move. That is how your trend line, candlesticks and support and resistance work together to help show you the most profitable trades. If you are trending, buy pullback/sell rallies in harmony with that trend. If you hit a resistance, then look for a validate candlestick reversal before shorting that resistance, if you are at support begin to look for a valid candlestick reversal pattern to bounce off of that support area. If you don't get these patterns and price keeps going then it is time for a new strategy, but following your trend is going to yield your most profitable trades.



Follow where your price leads, but your trading tools help you to predict where price maybe headed. Anticipations makes for some very lucrative and profitable trades.........



YOU CAN DO THIS (^_^)





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LISTEN TO THE WISDOM OF THE CANDLES

Your candles always have a tale to tell and you would be very wise to listen as they whisper hints about what is going on in the market. In order to trade your very best, it is very very important for you to learn to properly interpret the language of your chart. Now you can use either the bar or candlestick chart to do this, there is really no real difference in the information between the two, but the candles give you a clear immediate visual advantage over your bars. Whether you use bars or candles isn't as important as being able to understand what they are saying to you.

Learning to properly interpret this language will save you hundreds to several thousands of dollars. The trader who has taken the time and patience to learn this language heaps huge rewards as a benefit, but those who don't suffer the wrath of the market time and time again.

Now it is possible to have a perfect understanding of the market and still miss it. All the proper interpretation does is give you an advantage that will put profits in your pocket most of the time.

Your charts are always telling a story and if you can properly interpret that story the market will pay you big dividends for that knowledge.

Here is one of my favorite beginner candlestick video:



Also pick up Steve Nison's candlestick book at your local library: THE KNOWLEDGE IS THE POWER IN TRADING, and having it is the difference between going broke and thriving.

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