Business Risk Management – Rule of Three

Would you like to discover a quick and simple risk management strategy that is easy to apply to any trading plan, and has the potential to vastly improve results? Excellent! I’m not talking about the placement of stop losses, which is what most people consider as ‘risk management’. Rather, this is a simple tool for…

Transitioning from Part-Time to Full-Time Daytrading: Ensuring Sufficient Income

One of the toughest times of my life – that threatened my own psychological wellbeing as well as the potential safety and security of my family – was in early 2004, when I first made the leap from part-time to full-time trading. I had the required knowledge. I had the required skills. I was a…

How to Conduct an Effective Trading Session Review – 1 of 2

One of the greatest processes you have at your disposal, for maximizing your learning and fast-tracking your development as a trader, is your review process. Let’s have a look at how I recommend you carry out this often-neglected part of your daily trading routine… For too many traders, the review process is simply entering their…

MY PRE-SESSION ROUTINE

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…

My Post-Session Routine

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…

Have You Ever Thought to Protect Against These Trading Risks?

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…

My Post-It Note Trading Plan

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”…Leonardo da Vinci How detailed should your trading plan be? There is of course no right answer apart from whatever works best for you. Some people need detail – lots of it. Others will never need more than a single page, with anything longer simply gathering electronic dust as it sits…

Build a Visual Library of MUST-TRADE Scenarios

  We’ve spoken in NUMEROUS articles about the importance of using a journal to study key market structure and price action sequences, with the aim of developing your ability to perceive and understand the current strength or weakness of price movement and project that forward to develop a bias for the near future. Here are…