Understand the difference between trending and ranging markets
Understand the difference between trending and ranging markets – 10 Habits of Highly Successful Traders (Part 3) Take a look at the chart above. Is the market in a trend or a trading range? It is an uptrend, isn’t it? How do we know that it is an uptrend? The market is making higher highs and higher […]
16 Personality Types and Jung’s four typologies
16 Personality Types and Jung’s four typologies – 4 parts to personality Personality Types come from Jung’s four typologies. Jung defined four different categories of psychological profile. A focus on: our external behaviour (I or E) – whether people are extravert and may need people around them to stimulate them – we all know people […]
Personality Types in the workplace – for employers, managers and keyworkers
Personality Types in the workplace. Many employers use Personality profiling in order to help with staff recruitment, retention and development. The key is to consider Job Scope, Roles, Duties, and the Key Attributes required for positions in order to draw up a desired personality profile or perhaps profiles that ideally may suit the role. The […]
All traders must look for Context, Content and Confluence – Do the Duck Test
All traders must look for Context, Content and Confluence – Do the Duck Test. This is the second essential component to successful trading. Beginners tend to learn certain candlestick patterns or a chart pattern or an indicator behaviour and think that they can just look out for it to appear on their chart, take their […]
Learn to Trade the Markets – The 10 essential components to becoming a successful trader (including the missing links)
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The four parts to personality – where do they come from?
In my childhood one of the things that I remember was the significant amount of order in our household. On Mondays certain things happened, on Tuesdays certain things happened, on Weds certain things happened. I knew what we were going to have for tea on Thursday. It was gammon and mash night, on Friday it […]
Trading with automatic trading systems – feel the freedom
In September 2018 I went live with my automatic trading system. I had designed a system that would take trades for me with real money on a live market. This was a real stretch for freedom for me. Would it be possible to trade hands-free and allow my (fairly simple) self-designed algorithm to make money […]
Day Trading with a self-designed robot
We are about to enter week 4 of my project – day trading with a self-designed robot. I am so excited about the future of this automated trading system, I can’t tell you! Whilst I have been live trading with this automatic system I am up 56 points so far. I have had just six […]
Automatic trading using my own algorithm
Day trading using my own algorithm and automatic system – Week 3 Having been trading successfully for several years I spent several months designing a trading algorithm that would replicate the type of trades that I have been used to taking manually. Having come up with something approaching what I was looking for I backtested […]
Trading with an automatic system – automated day trading
Week 2 of automated day trading on a self-designed system You can see in the chart above that since the first week of trading with my automated day trading system the system has performed well. We have had 10 green days out of a total of 16 trading days. You will also note that the […]