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5 STEPS TO IMPROVE YOUR TRADING
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Plan your work and work your plan. Successful businesses have
written operating plans. Winning sports teams follow a written
game plan. The best traders approach trading as a business, and
emotional trading can be very detrimental to your long term
success. By developing and following a written trading plan, you can
focus on avoiding things that have proven costly to you in the past,
and work on repeating that which has been pro table. Often a
written trading plan can help one strive to eliminate repeating
costly mistakes in their process, or in many cases, actually just
establish a process. Basic items to address in the planning and
development phase include, but are not limited to:
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Time Frame - Day, swing, or longer term position trader. Some may
opt for more than one, but as I discuss in item 3, I prefer to focus on
one method and time frame.
Entry and exit signals - Speci c rules for entries, stop loss levels, and
exits from winning trades, whether scaled or all in/all out.
System Parameters - What are the return goals for the accounts
and what are the drawdown thresholds? Once a trader sets a
realistic return expectation, they can start to set up position limits
in line with the return expectation. On the other side, many traders
stop taking new positions for a speci c time period if they reach a
pre determined drawdown level.
One major reason that many traders fail or wash out is because
they have unrealistic return expectations. Many think it should be
easy to double an account in a year or less because it is smaller in
size, maybe $5,000 or $10,000 as an example. What they fail to
realize that in shooting for extraordinary returns, they often take
on extraordinary risks. What percentage of professional fund
managers achieves 25% a year on a consistent basis? Novice traders
often think they can achieve that return or more because of a
smaller account base. If it were easy, everyone would do it. The fact
is if their account is just pro table for the year, they are ahead of
the majority of traders. While many traders scoff at making 2% in a
month, the fact is over the course of a year, just 2% a month, on
average equates to 24% for the year, which would put one in the
upper echelon of traders over time.
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"He who chases two rabbits catches neither" - Chinese Proverb. Trading
is a very dif cult endeavor, there is nothing easy about it. A trader
who focuses their time and effort on one speci c market, style or
approach greatly increases their chances of mastery and success
than one who tries to trade many different approaches. Specialized
knowledge has been said to be a key character trait of extremely
successful individuals in any endeavor. While the ability to get
unlimited nancial news and data 24 hours a day, and execute
trades with the click of a button seems to offer bene ts, in reality
more often than not it dilutes the traders performance. There are
literally dozens of ways to trade pro tably over a variety of
strategies and time frames. A trader only needs to excel at one.
Ideally, a trading style needs to suit the traders personality. There is
no one size ts all. A very good shorter-term trader may not be able
to execute a longer-term trend following program well, and
someone wired to be a longer-term trader may not be able to
execute a shorter-term strategy. The key here is to nd a trading
approach that is conducive to the traders personality.
4. UNDERTRADE
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