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)
Day Trading – Discover your missing pieces Profitable traders have a recipe for success and in this series I am going to talk you through all the ingredients (components) that you need to incorporate into your learning, your trading strategies, and your life outside of trading in order to give yourself the best possible chance […]
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 […]
Trading with an automated system – Using IG and ProRealTime (Live Trading Week 1)
Living the dream – let the algorithms do the work For the last few months I have been excitedly working on a number of automated trading systems, basically algorithms that allow a computer system to take my trades for me. The idea is that I provide the computer software, provided by my broker, with an […]
Why do beginner traders lose? Trading your system – Stick to the process
Why do beginner traders lose? Well, one of the things that I noticed about top traders when I was studying them is that they decide conclusively what their system is and they stick to it no matter what. Do what the expert traders do Some top traders only trade one particular setup. This setup gives […]
An introduction to trading – Learn to trade the markets
Are you ready for the challenge in the markets? Your introduction to trading – Learn to trade the markets. For over 160 years stock & commodity markets have been offering traders the opportunity to win or lose a fortune in an instant. Once the sole domain of the institutional traders and super rich battling it […]
How to trade forex – Free ebook – learn to trade forex on the 5 minute timeframe
Learn how to trade forex markets with Anthony Beardsell in his new Ebook – EUR/USD and the Forex Markets – Trading the 5 minute timeframe. In this 162 page book, Anthony provides a system to use in trading forex on the 5 minute timeframe. The system focusses on reading price action, via trading candlesticks. In […]