I operate my trading business in accordance with my Procedures Manual, which documents the procedural steps I will carry out in order to complete: My pre-session routine My during-session routine My post-session routine My contingency management procedures Let’s discuss my pre-session routine. Feel free to use whatever parts you find useful for documenting your own…
When we talk trading risk, most people only ever think about individual trade losses. They rarely ever put any consideration to external risks, that can be just as damaging to your trading business profit & loss. The following is a great email I’ve received from YTC reader Adam, who kindly gave permission to share his…
The following trade review examples have been taken (with permission) from some email conversations with Josh, a trader of the YTC Price Action Trader methodology. He’s still in the early stages of his development, developing confidence in his strategy and processes through historical chart review. He’s doing this using ForexTester software which allows for trading of historical charts…
Here’s a great question I received via private message on Social Media during the week, which I think is relevant to all of us. I’ll make an assumption here that the intent is to talk about how to fit trading into “life”. That is, how to find sufficient time for not only trading, but all the admin…
Over the ten years that I’ve been running this site, I’ve spoken with quite a few traders on the verge of quitting out of frustration. In the last month, there have been two. And for both, as for everyone before, I’ve offered an alternate plan. Because I don’t think frustration is a valid reason for…
This chart is from Thursday 19th March 2020. A couple of quick trades and then STOPPED. Done for the day. Why stop? Because today was a Hit & Run day! Trading is a performance activity. And it’s our job to manage ourselves in an attempt to get as close to peak performance as possible. Good…
We have talked a LOT over recent years about the importance of reviewing trade stats in GROUPS. And using this analysis to drive our growth and development. This simple concept here: I still believe this is the best way to monitor the health of your business and to drive improvement. Small groups, occurring regularly. With…
Fatigue management is a favorite topic of mine, due to my interest in aviation and in particular aviation safety. In military aviation, in both a training and operational environment, fatigue management is recognized as an essential function of command, in order to minimize risk and enhance operational effectiveness. The same applies to the management of…
Life… the stuff that gets in the way of your trading! I know that everyone has difficulty at times fitting their trading in and around the rest of their life. Especially if you’re still working a full-time job and raising kids at the same time. But seriously, I can’t imagine a much worse time-zone for…
How Can I Get More Discipline? Here is an excerpt from an email I recently received: EMAIL (Excerpt): … one of my biggest hurdles is still discipline. I’m beginning to think I might need some help in this area. Do you know of anyone who has successfully helped people with their discipline? RESPONSE: Poor discipline…
