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 We discussed the pre-session routine in a previous article – https://yourtradingcoach.org/trading-business/my-pre-session-routine/ In this article, I’d like to discuss my…
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…
7 Steps to Surviving a Trading Slump “How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.†… Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 1874-1936 As if learning to trade wasn’t already hard enough… If you’ve been in this game more than a few months you would quite likely have experienced…
While my analysis is usually conducted on time based charts, last week’s article discussed the one period of time when I always refer to tick or range based charts (usually monitoring both). If you missed it, you can read it here: https://yourtradingcoach.org/trading-process-and-strategy/tick-or-range-charts-vs-time-based-charts/ I’ve had a couple of requests for another example, with one request also for…
One thing I love to do over the Christmas & New Year break is to schedule a couple of days for Market Replay learning. Last Sunday & Monday were scheduled for my replay sessions. The ability to speed up the market data in-between key decision making areas means that I can squeeze in half a dozen…
