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The Iceberg Illusion of Success in Trading 🏔️ When people see a consistently profitable trader they do not consider all the costs a successful trader has paid overtime (below the surface) to get to what they see (above the surface). So many things happen below the surface that nobody can see. Here are some of the below the surface things that compose the top of the iceberg that everyone sees: 🔰Dedication – you need to be loyal to your dream of becoming a pro trader. Your belief must be that strong so no one could dissuade you. You need an iron discipline to make it happen. 🔰Hard work – you should work day after day not letting yourself give up. Charts must be in front of you as much as it is possible. Trading terminal must become your best friend. 🔰Good habits – follow your trading plan, do not break your rules of risk management, avoid FOMO, etc. This is the set of habits that will be your satellite in your trading journey. Do them consistently and they will become a natural part of your life. 🔰Disappointment – it does not matter how hard you try. Occasionally things will fall apart anyway: you will face losing streaks and a strategy will refuse to work. It will hurt. "Stand up straight with your shoulders back". Treat disappointments as temporary things. 🔰Sacrifice – to become a consistently profitable trader you should pay the price. Losses, time, nerves. Your prosperous future will have a tremendous cost. 🔰Failure – while you are learning how to trade you will inevitably blow a couple of trading accounts, you will spend time on strategies and techniques that do not work. Occasionally you will fall. If so, stand up and keep going. 🔰Persistence – keep doing what you are doing no matter what. Do not let others persuade you that you can't make it. Even if things get tough, stay strong. 🔰Focus – always know what is your end goal, know where are you going, and what is your end destination. 🔰Flexibility – be prepared for sudden changes in the environment. Keep your focus on the goals that you set learning to adjust to the changing circumstances. 🔰Consistency – you will not get the desired results immediately. Be ready to do the same again and again, hundred times until the goal is achieved. Overnight success does not exist. If you want to become a consistently profitable trade be prepared for years of struggling and pain. And do not be afraid, it is worth it. ❤️Please, support this idea with like and comment!❤️
BITSTAMP:BTCUSDEducation
by VasilyTrader
15
Know When to Stop Trading⛔️ ✅Today we will talk about one of the most important things in trading, about what most traders around the world cannot do, even though they are well aware of the need for these actions. It will be about suspending and completely stopping their trading activities. ✅What to do if the trading system has failed, the market has changed, emotions fail or something has gone wrong. It is in this situation that the rules of action in extreme trading situations come to our aid. 1️⃣Three shots and you're dead — the rule of stopping trading within a day 🟢The main essence of this rule is contained in the title. And its essence is to stop trading if 3 consecutive losing trades were made during the trading session. No more deals are opened on this trading day. The trader has received a clear signal that something has gone wrong and the problem is either with the strategy or with the market or with the trader. 🟢Especially psychologically strong people who are sure that they will not be drawn to recoup, can continue to monitor the market, but it would be better to just close the trading platform and do something else, and after the trading session to analyze and find out what the problem was. 2️⃣Three volleys and you're dead — the rule of stopping trading for 2 days 🟢This rule is quite simple in formulation and just as complex in execution, in fact, as all the rules of risk management and capital management. 🟢If the three-shot rule has worked for three days in a row, then trading stops for 2 days. The principle is the same as in the previous rule, but in this case, the trader receives a signal that the problem is more serious than originally thought and it will not be possible to simply wait it out, serious measures need to be taken to analyze and correct the situation. 3️⃣The 30% trading capital rule 🟢If 30% of the trading capital was lost during trading, then trading stops completely until the moment when this loss is made up in any other way (of course legal). This rule will help to save your main working tool — trading capital and will allow you to relieve psychological stress because the trader will come out of a stressful state and realize that he has other ways of earning income, i.e. trading is not conducted with the last money. ❗️Observing these 3 simplest rules of stopping trading, you can be sure that you will never lose your deposit and even in the worst case scenario you will always be able to stop and beat the excitement that pushes many traders to return to the market again and again until zero remains on the account.However, all of the above is true only under one small condition — all three rules are strictly observed ❤️ Please, support our work with like & comment! ❤️
OANDA:XAUUSDEducation
by UnitedSignals
7
HOW TO use asymmetric compounding 🧐📈The pair in question and four winning trades allows me to cover a subject I've wanted to touch on. That subject is asymmetric compounding. Asymmetric compounding is a money management strategy that can accelerate the equity curve of an account. But you need the right strategy and data available to back up using asymmetric compounding. Higher the win rate the more asymmetric will work wonders on that equity curve. In simple terms asymmetric compounding is best suited to strategies with higher win rates as you need consecutive wins to make it work. The main reason for using this NZDUSD chart is the four winners in a row make it easier to explain the concept of asymmetric compounding. You traders should know the full ins and outs of your own strategies and if this can be applied. It's not just win rate also RR along with max losing and max winning runs need to be factored in. For this example on the four winning trades I am explaining the concept basing it on risking 2% per trade on the initial trade. As this strategy is a 1:2 risk reward strategy risking 2% sees us gain a profit of 4% on one winning trade. This is where you can then use asymmetric compounding on your next trade. Instead of risking 2% again you now risk the 4% gained from the previous trade on this trade. If the trade goes on to win the 4% risked on that trade has just earned 8% in profit. At this point you go back to risking 2% on the next trade until you have a win and then risk the 4% gain from that winning trade. The chart shows four winning trades at 1:2 RR so lets test the concept in numbers. If we was to risk 2% per trade on a £1000 starting capital account the results are as followed. Trade one 2% risked 4% gained= £1040 capital. Trade two 2% risked 4% gained= £1081.60 capital Trade three 2% risked 4% gained= £1124.86 capital Trade four 2% risked 4% gained= £1169.85 capital Now if we apply asymmetric compounding to the same trade sequence staring back at original 2% risk after two winning trades Trade one 2% risked 4% gained= £1040 capital. Trade two 4% risked 8% gained= £1123.20 capital Trade three 2% risked 4% gained= £1168.13 capital Trade four 4% risked 8% gained= £1261.58 capital Using asymmetric compounding on these four trades see a capital increase of £91.73 more than just risking a flat 2%. Below is an example of using a 1:1 RR strategy risking 1% per trade. If trade is a winner then risk 2% on the next trade which is the profit and the risk from the previous trade. # If that trade wins go back to the intial 1% risk then risk 2% again if that trade wins. This is a great concept to grow small accounts or even pass funded challenges as with the trades shown on the idea chart you would pass most prop firm challenges in two trades using asymmetric compounding. However I can't stress enough you as the trader need to know you own risk appetite for this. You also need to factor in how good your win rates and how often your strategy has seen winning runs that would benefit this concept. One way to found out is to back test and forward test your strategy to see how asymmetric compounding could work for you. Thanks for taking time out your day to read over my idea. Ill see you on the next one 👍 Darren
Education
by pow_removetheguesswork
The study of the prism of vision 🎓Here an open mind opinion which will be very usefull if you are a beginner, if you are at research of profitable and regular results, if you research something working for you in this game, and for many others. I will not develop any strategies or analysis here (it would be too long), just show exemple of some with, in the end, some advice that you MUST read to perform in this trading. First I will explain why it came to my mind to make this post and secondly I will provide a deep speech for everyone of you. If you follow me, you know I provide notably updates on Bitcoin for the moment, my analysis, some explanations about what happen inside the market and some expectations for the future (and signal / trades when there is). Yesterday when I wrote the LDTP #11 (you can find it related to this idea), I explained many technical things and during I was writing the post, market made exactly what I was explaning for and what I usually develop. It gave this masterpiece from market like I called it in the initial post 👇 Here showing most of the knowledge I use in my strategy, you will find on this chart Volume analysis, Volume Profile analysis, Wyckoff Pattern analysis, Resistance / Support analysis, Candlestick analysis, Supply / Demand analysis but it's not what I want to develop here. When I cleared my chart, I said to myself : " How beginner cannot be lost when we see this obvious triangle that probably others people develop, exploit, trade for and claimed as THE solution in trading ? Which one say true, is it the Wyckoff pattern with the spring or is it the triangle ? " And so I developped this triangle, and others technics, always taking a blank chart arguying around differents technics. Here the result (I don't present it as working strategies, just as other setup, reading and visions) : Using Support / Resistances, Chartism analysis, Volumes 👇 Using Supply / Demand, Candlestick analysis 👇 Using Harmonic pattern 👇 Using Fibonacci retracements & extensions 👇 Or just using the Tradingview Bollinger Bands strategy 👇 And so, looking to that, I was asking myself : "How peoples can determined which content could be usefull for them when everybody say differents things, claiming for differents technics / strategies, speaking of a same chart ? Who say the truth ? Is this game a big coin flip party ? ". I believe some beginners have already wondered about it. How don't think that when you start here and you see many traders, revendicating as professionnals, saying the exact opposite of the others for some reasons that all seams technically viable. 🔰 So here my answer that you need to read : 🔰 In trading, nobody say true but nobody say wrong also, because there will be always a moment where they will have reason. No strategy say true but no strategy say wrong too, because there will be always a moment where they will have reason. Same as indicators, same as technics, same as ... In the end only market have reason. Don't search to control the market, search to understand it. Don't search to be rich, search to be profitable. Don't search to always have reason / always win trades, but most of the time. ▶️ Don't believe others ! Find usefull content, learn from them, learn from you, but learn. You will never win money by following naively what someone say even more if you don't understand what he say and why he say that. Look at all technics, at all approch, at all strategies you can find in trading, search on these, learn on these, until you find one which will fit with you. You will never win money by applying painfully the strategy of another person. Your mind, your personnality have to show through your strategy. Like there is thousand of assets to trade on, there is thousand way to trade them. ▶️ Grind the market until you apply your strategy/knowledges unconsciously ! Here how your brain work or how you have to make it work : You are unconsciously incompetent, then you do research to experiment new approch of understanding. You find it so you become consciously incompetent, then you learn about it to become better. You force yourself to apply it so you become consciously competent, then you grind it everyday, everyweek, everymonth as long you need for integrate it. When you are finally able to do it naturally you become inconsciously competent, then you can restart with another unconsciously incompetent aspect of you. ▶️ Don't avoid failure, you will fail ! Every trader already failed, at different scales, but this is a fact. This is how work your brain, you learn, then you apply, then you fail, then you learn from it to apply better and to avoid future mistakes. And failure will became less important but you will continue to fail, and you will continue to learn from them. This is how you become profitable. You can block yourself in a state where you don't want to fail, but you will never progress. Failure help to question ourselves, it's an essential step to progress. If you are not able to take a step back from your results, from how you apply your strategy and your knowledges, you will run into a wall, you will loose time and failure will became harder than never. ▶️ Become mathematically reliable ! Today you have the opportunity to test strategies for free, abuse of it. Use virtual money accounts and train for days, weeks, months, years until your strategy became mathematically reliable. By using virtual money and not your own, it will able you to fail, as much you need it. But you will also work on your strategy out of any emotions. Because when you trade with real money you are impacted by emotions, and as you are, your strategy will, and is profitability with it. If you don't do that step of learning and applying far from real money you will lose your time to blame your emotions like the reason why you are loosing money but it's just that your strategy isn't' profitable on long term. ▶️ Work on yourself ! As you have to work on your knowledges to improve yourself, you will have to work on your personnality to win money in trading. You will experience emotions and you will have to learn to control them. If you cannot you will have to learn to don't trade when you feel emotions. Emotions will make you overtrade, deviate from your strategy and so from your profitability in trading. Emotions will blind yourself from your true value, making you better than you are or worse than you are. Emotions will cause moments of intense joy as well as moments of deep sorrow. Frustration, revenge, confidence, motivation, patience, mistakes, pain, sadness, happyness I could quote decades that you will have to deal with, you will fail because of them, you will tilt, and you will have to learn about it again. Speaking of pacience, this is the major mistake of beginner for me, if you are not able to put your ass in a chair and look at market without taking a single trade during a full day, you don't trade for the good reason : you trade to feel emotions and not to win money. You are not looking the market to find entry, you are waiting the market to give you an entry : weigh the meaning of these words. And if you had doubts about it, you won't be rich tomorrow from trading because you read this words, but it can give you answer to achieve your goals. ▶️ Open your mind ! Like I showed there is many technics in trading, explore them ! That don't mean that you have to use them but you have to understand what exist, why some can be usefull in some case and not in other ... Also open your mind to other's plans, admit that you could say wrong and that you could think wrong. Another mistake that some do : don't explore only one way, don't think because this indicator say "..." that market can go only here "...". Take a step back, create scenarios that the market could follow and search in these which one you could exploit. Market cannot surprise you if you do this job, become proactive and stop being reactive. You will see that the emotional charge will be less important. But don't confuse, that don't mean you anticipate the market, you just imagine what he can do. Never anticipate the market, or you will lose money. ⚠️ To finish, I made a statement in one of my past ideas that I want to reiterate : "Whatever your strategy, whatever your indicators, whatever your amount of knowledges, if it is mathematically reliable it doesn't lie but premiums scams lie. Doesn't matter who you want to follow, who you want to support, who you want to believe, always verify that he doesn't provide public payable services where your person serv his own interest. That probably the best advice I can give you. You will need to surround yourself to progress in trading, that a fact, but don't be the food of this guys." Saying all that, I hope you understand now that trading isn't a question of "this indicator is better than this one", or "this strategy is the best way to ...", no it's just how you use it, how much you trained for, how much you grind to handle it. If you had to remenber only a sentence, use this one : "Making money in trading is math and respect of strategy, so never let your emotions guide you in uncomfortable positions" If you arrived to these final words I think it's because you want to improve yourself and I promise you that you will succeed if you put the amount of work necessary. It will not be an easy path but nobody said that it will be simple, except those who earn money from you. There was so much things to say that I probably forgot sometimes what I wanted to say, and there is always at least as much to say. Maybe one day I will do another chapter but for the moment : Like, follow or comment* if you like, I need it to continue ! *Speaking of comments, come ask questions, come share your point of view, come debate, I need it to feel that my without counterpart work is usefull for some !
Education
by Kentg
3
5 Important Candle Patterns You Need to Know📚 🟢Candlestick patterns and models in technical analysis can be used to predict future price movement. ⚠️There are many different candle patterns. Not all of them work equally well and often their form is quite subjective. Therefore, it is not necessary to make trading decisions based on patterns alone. It would be best to combine them with support and resistance levels, moving averages or other technical analysis indicators that strengthen signals to enter the market. ❗️Remembering a lot of different candle patterns is not as useful as understanding what is really behind their appearance, and who is currently controlling the situation in the market — bulls or bears. Let's look at the most popular and easiest to define patterns. ✅Bearish Engulfing It is formed during the upward momentum of the price at the local highs of the chart. The first small green candle of the pattern indicates that the bulls are already tired and they need a break. The large red candle that appeared next, swallowing the green one with its body, indicates that the bears took advantage of the situation and actively moved into a counteroffensive. Further movement of quotations downwards leads to the beginning of a downward correction. Confirmation of the beginning of the downward movement will be the price falling below the minimum of the second, large bearish candle pattern. ✅Bullish Engulfing It is formed during the downward movement at the local minima of the price chart. The first small red candle of the pattern shows that the bears' strength is already running out, after which a large green candle appears, completely absorbing the body of the first one. This suggests that the bulls felt the weakness of the bears and actively went on the offensive. Further upward movement of the price leads to the beginning of an upward correction. Confirmation of its beginning is the growth of quotations above the maximum of the second, large bullish candle pattern. ✅Doji In fact, doji can be one of the most important patterns in combination with other technical analysis tools. It shows indecision in the market and at its breakdown - it is possible to draw conclusions about the further probable price movement. ✅Shooting Star A clear sign of the dominance of sellers. After the opening of the candle, prices moved towards growth, but at the closing of the candle, sellers began to dominate buyers and the price closes near or below the opening price. The tail of this candle shows that it was in it that sellers began to "Crush" buyers. With such a pattern, there is a possibility of further decline. ✅Pin bar A clear sign of the dominance of buyers. After the opening of the candle, prices moved downward, but at the close of the candle, buyers began to dominate sellers and the price closes near or above the opening price. The tail of this candle shows that it was in it that buyers began to "crush" sellers. With such a pattern, there is a possibility of further growth. ❤️ Please, support our work with like & comment! ❤️
BITSTAMP:BTCUSDEducation
by UnitedSignals
3
Why Do You Need a Trading Plan?📝 If you want to become a consistently profitable trader you have two choices: 1️⃣strictly follow your trading plan or 2️⃣fail. Trading plan is essential for achieving your financial goals. It is a set of actions to follow for making trading decisions guiding you on how to react to certain events. It reflects your personality and characteristics. Moreover, its entire structure and content are primarily based on them. Your way to success will be full of obstacles. A lot of things will come in your way: losses, drawdowns, and losing streaks; mistakes, scams, and emotional decisions. Only your trading plan will show you a correct path, it ensures you will stay on track on your journey to your desired destination. When you make a wrong turn, it knows to make adjustments, and it points you back in the right direction. It is your guard from making any hurried decisions you could later regret. Trading without a trading plan wouldn’t be a smart idea. You wouldn’t know how to get to your destination and it’s highly likely that you get lost. Most importantly, if you suck at trading (and you certainly will in the beginning), you will know it is down to one of only two reasons: either there’s a problem in your trading plan or you are not sticking to your trading plan. Stick to your plan traders. "If you fail to plan, you plan to fail". ❤️Please, support this idea with like and comment!❤️
BITSTAMP:BTCUSDEducation
by VasilyTrader
23
Being a weekend trading warriorYour results on Monday will be influenced by the work that you do on the weekend, specifically Sunday. As an intraday trader I constantly think about my trading. Here are a few points which every trader should focus on, 1 - Mapping our mental weaknesses We all have mental challenges, some of us have a lot of FOMO, while others oversize and over trade, you know what is holding you back as a trader... FIND IT AND WORK ON IT! 2 - Reviewing trades (winners & losers) Search for the plays where you can add size, search for patterns that you can exploit next week, review your best trades. What trades worked best for you? more of these on Monday. What trades are not working for you? Eliminate them. 3 - Checking for key levels & patterns The best in every industry practice and train... yet probably 90% of traders never really do any kind of practice, they search for a strategy and then cannot wait to apply it to the markets... real traders work on their trading hence they create REAL SKILLS!
BITSTAMP:BTCUSDEducation
by PrimedGroup
5
Japanese Candlesticks: learning to read and understand🕯 ✅Japanese candlesticks are the most popular way to read the price movement on charts. They are visual, easy to learn and the main thing is that they work. ✅The first mention of candle patterns can be found in the Japanese rice trader Homma Munehisa in the 1700s. Almost 300 years later, candles were rediscovered by Steve Neeson in his book titled "Japanese Candles. Graphical analysis of financial markets". ✅Candlestick charts provide much more information compared to linear charts and are currently the preferred market analysis tool for traders and investors. What are Japanese candles? 🟢Each of the candles tells us four facts about itself: the opening price, the maximum price movement, the closing price, and the minimum price movement. ⏺A bullish candle is formed when the price rises. In financial markets, the term bullish means a long position or a buy. ⏺A bearish candle is formed when the price falls. In financial markets, the term bearish refers to a short position or sale. ❗️The body of the candle is the space between the opening and closing of the candle. If the body is green, it means that the closing price of the candle is higher than the opening price. If the color is red, it means the closing price is lower than the opening price of the candle. ❗️Candle wicks represent the highest or lowest points that the candle has reached. 🟢Each candle represents a selected time frame or time interval during which it opens and closes. For example, on a 4-hour chart, candlesticks open and close every 4 hours. 🟢If we line up several candlesticks, we can compare them with a linear chart. Candle wicks also show price fluctuations. Thus, we immediately get the maximum information that we need for effective market analysis. ⚠️A trader who knows how to analyze and interpret candlestick patterns or patterns already understands the actions of financial market participants a little better. ❤️ Please, support our work with like & comment! ❤️
BITSTAMP:BTCUSDEducation
by UnitedSignals
14
The Only Proven Way To Success in Trading 🥇 Hey traders, Like any discipline, consistently profitable trading requires many years of practice. In this post, we will discuss the only proven way to become successful in trading. 🔰First, let's start with the axiom: there are no inborn traders, trading is a skill, a skill that can be learned. Though talent may help you in some manner it does not guarantee your success. One more axiom that is logically derived from the first one is the fact that trading is a complex skill. The one that can be split into dozens of subskills. Making that statement we may assume that our success in trading directly depends on mastering each subskill, each domain that it consists of. But how do we master these skills?🤔 The only way to do that is to practice. Practice means doing something regularly in order to be able to do it better. With your first attempts, you are doomed to fail. Inevitable you will suffer and you will feel miserable because of your incompetence. Trying and doing the same thing again and again, at some moment you will feel the progress and growth. Your perseverance will bear fruit. Knock, and it shall be opened to you. And as a consequence, with some attempt, you will feel that finally the skill is mastered, that one more stage in your journey is passed. Polishing the entire set of subskills and learning to apply that as a single unit will make you a consistently profitable trader. Just stipulate the domains properly, name them and be ready to work hard. ❤️Please, support this idea with like and comment!❤️
BITSTAMP:BTCUSDEducation
by VasilyTrader
20
The Power of using NPOCS on your Charts BTC/USDA Naked Point of Control is an untested point of control which is either time based or volume based and exists in the current market structure. These NPOCS can serve as excellent targets for trades as well as potential areas of support and resistance dependent upon the NPOC's profile distribution. I have marked this Bitcoin Chart with Daily , Weekly and Monthly NPOCs and using the boxes I have demonstrated how powerful NPOCS can be when incorporated into a trading strategy for Scalps Daytrades and Swing setups. I use NPOCS with other confluences mainly Fib levels and order flow and the respect for these levels is well worth noting . I hope this information helps you define a strategy for your trading as utilizing these correctly will boost your ROI. Whatever the case thanks for viewing my work and be sure to like and follow .
BYBIT:BTCUSD.PEducation
by SJTRADESFUTURES
15
Lets talk prop firms❗Its the buzz words and hot topic of the moment! PROP FIRMS Before I start on this topic I want confirm I am a funded trader. This post isn't to promote this style of trading or prop firms. I am writing this post for those who may not understand what a prop firm is and to share my own experiences on the route to being a funded trader. What is a prop firm? Proprietary trading is where a firm trades for its own financial gain instead of earning commissions for clients. What is a prop trader? A prop trader is someone who uses that firms money to trade with and in exchange receives a wage or a percentage of the profits. Now those two statements above probably ring more true for those who work for financial institutes on trading floors all around the world. The propriety trading firms I want to talk about are the retail prop firms that usually for a subscription or a challenge fee will allow you as a trader to trade funds provided by them. Any profits you make on that account you as the trader will receive a share of the profits. Usually 70-80%. The business model has drawn a lot attention some good and some bad. So this seems a good starting point to discuss what we know of the business model. To become a funded trader with these companies you must either pay a subscription or take a challenge. You rules and conditions of which you have to abide by in order to gain and keep funded accounts. Subscriptions model This route to prop funding tends to be a monthly reoccurring payment. You are then given an account to trade with stipulations attached. For the subscription model the rules on the account tend to be very tight/strict and the fee can be quiet hefty. Challenge model This route to funding is where the trader pays an entry fee in to a challenge to prove their trading credentials. The trade will be set targets to meet over one or two phases in order to secure funding. The account will have rules and stipulations applied for example 10% overall draw down. If funding is secured then most companies refund the entry fee and you then as a funded trader earns money of any profits made on your funded account. So that's the options to becoming a funded trader. The retail prop firm business model has been criticised because some of these funded accounts are demo accounts once gained. Some say these companies only make money off failures and that's why even their funded traders who have passed are only ever trading demo accounts. Some prop firms on completion of challenges give you real accounts. But do we truly know they are real or does it just say real? A prop firm most definitely makes money from failed challenge attempts as part of it's business model. No one will ever know for real if they copy trade their top funded traders either. But in my opinion they would be daft not to copy trade consistent performers that take payouts of these firms every month because they exists. Prop trading pros and cons. Their is pro and cons to any choice in life and prop trading is no exception. I'll cover my personal pro and cons to the prop world below. PROS -For traders who are consistent and proven but only have small capital available, Prop trading is a good route to potentially larger trading pots. -Most prop firms have scaling plans -Prop firm gives trader the opportunity to funding most would never of got if they didn't exists. Most would never get an the opportunity to trade for a big institute. Prop firms bridge that gap. -Given the amount of firms popping up a consistent trader could soon find themselves with a diverse portfolio of accounts giving some life changing chances and monthly profit opportunity. -Most prop firms have favourable commissions and spreads with some having no commissions what so ever. -Reduced personal risk . Worse case scenario for a funded trader is losing the account rather than massive personal losses. CONS -Even when funded you have to adhere to rules and terms of the prop firm -You could spend big money getting traded -The health of the prop firm you trade for is unknown and one prop firm has already dis-appeared. -In reality the targets set are gain the funded account is quiet high at 8-10% in 30 calendar days. -Violation of rules ends in account loss. Summary I can only speak of the journey I have taken myself. For me the pros out weighed the cons when it came to seeking funding via these prop firms and the opportunities they offer. I personally don't mind paying a fee to enter challenges as you need some emotional attachment to the challenge in order for you to play your best trading game. If these were free to enter then everyone would just go big and all out to get funded then would do exact same if managing to get funded. That would be sustainable for no one. That's not what trading is about it's about risk management and emotional control which helps lead to consistent trading results. For a 100k challenge most prop firms charge between £400-£500 that is still a fair amount of money for anyone and you should be treating it as a serious venture if your not then you are simply gambling. Funded accounts being a demo account hasn't bothered me. I get paid when I'm in profit and that's all that matters. Spreading accounts over different prop firms lowers risk and exposure to losing all your funded accounts. One well known firm has gone and thankfully I wasn't with them but aiming for a few accounts with different firms lowers risk of finding yourself funded one minute then not the next. Are they a scam? In ever growing market place bad apples will be operating in the sector. As traders you have to do own research but plenty have been round for a while now with good reviews to boot. Trading in general is hard and gaining 8-10% in one month to pass then doing 5% the following is no easy feat. Get a game plan and strategy together, back test and forward test the live out of it and when consistency is there only then is it worth attempting funding challenges. Love them or hate them prop firms are here and making some noise. They offer opportunity a plenty but they do come with mystique attached. You as a trader and an individual have to judge if they are for you or not. Simple way I looked at the opportunity 1 Funded 200k account 3% profit per month = $6000 80% profit split= $4800 GBP= £3478 Approx equivalent to 57k GBP a year! Freedom can be closer than you think. Thanks for taking time to read my idea Darren.
Education
by pow_removetheguesswork
The 12 Tasks Of Trading12 tasks of trading which include: 1. Self-analysis to determine if you are in a state of mind to trade Prior to starting your trading day, it is very important to make sure you are in the correct state of mind to trade. You need to analyse yourself and make sure you are at the best state of mind to avoid mistakes in the markets. You cannot finish fighting with a friend, spouse, or colleague and expect to make great analytical decisions. Therefore, the first and most important step, is always making sure your mind is clear and at its best. 2. Mental rehearsal to avoid mistakes The second step includes you rehearsing your set of rules and making sure you are going to strictly stick by them. This will allow you to avoid many mistakes in the markets and in your day. 3. Daily focus to lead you towards your goal It is very important to have goals, but specifically daily goals. You need to determine what your goals are for the day including the pairs you are looking at, the times you will be trading, your risk management, and what you aim at gaining from the markets that day. Once goals are met, it is important to step back and wait until the next day to trade. 4. Developing your own style of a low risk idea. For students of Opes Trading Group, low risk ideas and strategies are all taught to them during the course. It is important for every trader to develop their own ideas and strategies that are low risk in order to always protect their capital. Capital preservation is the most important rule of forex trading. 5. Stalking the charts starting from high to low time frames Looking at the charts from the higher to the lower time frames allows you to be able to see the bigger picture before looking right in. if you started looking from the lower time frames, you could have a wrong picture painted for you as to where the price could be heading. You cannot see the bigger picture if you are standing too close to something, it is the same concept on the charts. 6. Action requiring commitment and not thought Once a trade and an idea has been analized, it is important not to second guess yourself and take the trade. Do not second guess yourself if you believe in yourself and your trades. 7. Monitoring the trade to keep the risk low Always keep your eyes on your trades. Now that doesn’t necessarily mean you need to be glued to your charts, but check them every once in a while, and at important candle closure to make sure they are still playing out the way you expect them to. 8. Aborting is the trade is not going well If a trade does not go as planned (and the reality is some won’t), it is important to cut your losses if the trade is clearly not going to recover. There is no reason to hold on to a losing trade if there is no reason for it to recover. 9. Taking profits when the reason for the trade has ended A take profit is placed for a reason, however sometimes the reasons end before the take profit has been reached, meaning it is very important to close the trade even if it means closing it early. Never become attached to a trade that you chase the take profit only to find yourself back at 0 or even in negative. 10. A daily review to monitor and prevent future mistakes At the end of every day, all the trades taken should be reviewed. This will allow you to see what you are doing right, and what you are doing wrong. This will give you a good indication for what is needed for future trades. 11. Being grateful for what went well Something so many people pay no attention to and ignore is gratefulness. Any positive day in the markets, is a great day! Be grateful for all that goes right, no matter how small the profits might be, because 90% of traders lost that day. 12. A periodic review to make sure everything is still working well Every quarter it is recommended that you review your whole trading system. As the markets change, we need to be able to change and adapt with them, therefore a periodic review will allow you to know if things that are working still are or aren’t.
COINBASE:ETHUSDEducation
by opes_trading_group
4
What To Focus On As A BeginnerFocusing on winning trades is your setback as a beginner Every individual begins their trading journey with the idea that trading is all about winning trades and making money. Soon after their dreams are shattered when they realise it was not as easy as they had thought it would be. Now as we all know, the road to success to many is long and difficult, and that’s exactly what makes them successful. So why should the road to success in trading be any different? Look at top performing athletes, they trained for years before reaching any kind of success that definitely did not occur overnight. This bring me to my main point where many traders could be failing due to focusing on winning trades rather than the process it takes to become a good trader. Every trader beginning their journey needs to understand that trading the financial markets is no different than a top performing athlete. In order to achieve success, one needs to develop their skills over years. Instead of focusing on winning every single trade, one should be focusing on the process and the experience they are gaining over this time. Studying your mistakes, your losses, your psychological weaknesses, your analysis, and your understanding of the charts, are far more important at this stage than focusing on winning trades. Look at your trading journey like a student attending university, a student will learn over years different topics, where some will seem worthless at the time, but will however develop their skills in the necessary fields to succeed in the future. Every beginner should deeply focus on the process. Winning trades are a by-product of a developed successful strategy which also requires a developed individual. The trader needs to be developed in their psychology above all in order to trust their strategy and apply it correctly without deviating from the plan. Take the time to focus on all aspects of your trading, and let the winning trades come as a result of that in the future. Trading is a marathon, not a sprint, always remember that.
COINBASE:BTCUSDEducation
by opes_trading_group
6
RISK : REWARD. Visualized breakdown ⚠️Regardless of whether you prefer day trading or swing trading, you need to understand the fundamental concepts regarding risk. They form the basis of understanding the market, managing trading activities, and investment decisions. Otherwise, you will not be able to protect and increase your balance. We have already discussed risk management, position size, and stop-loss setting. But if you are actively trading, answer two important questions. How does the growth potential relate to potential losses? In other words, what is your risk-reward ratio? In this article, we will discuss how to calculate the risk-to-profit ratio for any transaction. ✅What is the ratio of risk and profit? 🟢The risk-reward ratio (risk/reward or R/R ratio) allows you to understand what risk a trader is taking for the sake of a potential reward. In other words, it shows what the potential profit is for every dollar you risk when investing. 🟢The calculation itself is very simple. The maximum risk is divided by the net target profit. How exactly? First, think about where you want to enter into the transaction. Decide where you will take profit (if the trade is successful) and where to place a stop loss (if it is a losing trade). This is extremely important for effective risk management. Good traders set profit targets and stop-loss before entering a trade. Now you have entry and exit points, that is, you can calculate the ratio of risk and profit. To do this, you need to divide the potential risk by the potential profit. The lower this coefficient is, the more potential profit you will receive per "unit" of risk. Let's figure out how it works. ✅How to calculate the ratio of risk and profit 🟢Let's say you want to open a long position on bitcoin. You perform an analysis and determine that your take profit order will be 15% of the entry price. Next, you have to answer the following question: where your position will be closed in case of a market reversal. This is where you will have to set a stop loss. In this case, you decide that your cancellation point will be 5% of the entry point. It is worth noting that it, as a rule, should not be based on arbitrary percentage numbers. The profit target and stop loss should be determined based on market analysis. Technical analysis indicators are very useful for solving this problem. 🟢So, our profit target is 15%, and the potential loss is 5%. What is the ratio of risk and profit? 5/15 = 1:3 = 0,33. Everything is simple. This means that for each unit of risk we potentially win three times more. In other words, for every dollar we risk, we can get three dollars. Thus, if we have a position worth $100, then we risk losing $5 with a potential profit of 15. 🟢You can also move the stop loss closer to our entry to reduce this ratio. However, the entry and exit points should not be calculated arbitrarily, but solely based on analysis. If a trading position has a high risk-to-profit ratio, it is probably not worth "arguing" with the numbers and hoping for success. In this case, we recommend choosing another position with a good risk-reward ratio. ‼️Please note: positions with different sizes may have the same risk-to-profit ratio. For example, if we have a position worth $10,000, we risk losing $500 for a potential profit of $1,500 (the ratio is still 1:3). The ratio changes only if we change the relative position of our target and stop loss. ❤️ Please, support our work with like & comment! ❤️
BITSTAMP:BTCUSDEducation
by UnitedSignals
7
CANDLESTICK PATTERN TRADING | Engulfing Candle 📚 Hey traders, In this post, we will discuss a classic candlestick pattern formation each trader must know - the engulfing candle. Key properties of this pattern: 🔑 Engulfing candle is a reversal pattern. 🔑 Engulfing candle can be bullish or bearish. ❗️Also, remember that this candle demonstrates the highest accuracy when it is formed on a key level (support or resistance). ⬆️Bullish Engulfing Candle usually forms after a strong bearish impulse. Weakening, the market keeps going lower forming bearish candles. However, at some moment, instead of forming a new bearish candle the market reverses. The price forms a bullish candle that engulfs the range of the previous bearish candle and closes above its opening price. Such a candle we call a bullish engulfing candle. The main feature of this pattern is the fact that its total range (distance from the wick high to wick low) & body range (distance from body open to body close) exceed the ranges of a previous bearish candle. Being formed on a key support level or within a demand zone it signifies a highly probable pullback or even a trend reversal. ⬇️Bearish Engulfing Candle usually forms after a strong bullish move. Reaching an overbought condition, the market keeps going higher forming bullish candles. However, at some moment, instead of forming a new bullish candle the market goes in the opposite direction. The price forms a bearish candle that engulfs the range of the previous bullish candle and closes below its opening price. Such a candle we call a bearish engulfing candle. The main feature of this pattern is the fact that its total range (distance from the wick high to wick low) & body range (distance from body open to body close) exceed the ranges of a previous bullish candle. Being formed on a key resistance level or within a supply zone it signifies a highly probable pullback or even a trend reversal. 📝Engulfing candle can be applied for scalping lower time frames, for intraday trading, or even for swing trading. Personally, I apply this candle on daily/4h time frames as one of the confirmations of the strength of the structure level that I spotted. Do you trade engulfing candle? ❤️Please, support this idea with like and comment!❤️
COINBASE:BTCUSDEducation
by VasilyTrader
11
Trading on Financial Markets | Your Guide to Trade Planning 📝 Hey traders, In this post, we will discuss 6 crucial things in your trade planning and the main elements of trade results assessment. 1 - Before you open a trading position, make sure that you analyzed the chart. You should identify a market trend and spot major key levels. 2 - Once the chart is analyzed, you should identify the safest trading areas for your strategy (preferably the zones of supply and demand). You should patiently wait until one of these zones is tested. 3 - Once the zone is reached, you should look for a confirmation. You can either look for a reversal candlestick/price action pattern, some fundamental trigger, or some indicator. The point is that you should rely on a trigger that is backtested and that proved its accuracy. 4 - Getting your confirmation, you should have a precise entry strategy. Some traders prefer aggressive entries on spot while others are waiting for a retest of some major/minor level. 5 - You must set a stop loss. Remember that your stop-loss defines the point where you become wrong in your predictions. Be extremely careful on that step and give the market some space for fluctuations. 6- Know your exact target level(s). Know the point where you start protection of your position, where you start profit-taking. Be very strict and don't let your greed and fear intervene. Only then a trading position is opened. No matter what will be the end result of your trade, you should assess it: 1 - You should journal the trade outlining its end result, trading instrument, and your entry reason. 2 - Note any peculiar thing about this trade that you noticed. 3 - Record your gain/loss percentage. 4 - Identify whether any mistake was made and if so, learn from that. Here is your minimum plan to follow. Of course, as you mature in trading your trade assessment plan will be more sophisticated. Do not underestimate its importance and treat it as the main element of your trading routine. Do you plan your trades like that? ❤️Please, support this idea with like and comment!❤️
Education
by VasilyTrader
27
Never invest hard earned money based on social media influencersThese days there are a lot of social media influencers, to be honest most of them do not know about the Crypto fundamentals and what is the tech behind this and how things work in the long time. For an example, If an influencer says to buy and hold SLP token from Axie Infinity for long term, you need to instantly block them, because they do not even know the different types of token and are just misleading people. In this case, SLP is a utility/commodity token with infinite supply, as the number of players increases, more SLP will be minted hence price will go down, given that this game has no good burn mechanism. Such influnecers will come up with a drawing of new trend lines every day, and say the coin is in downtrends, but these trend lines have no impact on utility/commodity tokens. They depend upon the tokenomics. What I want to say is -- Never trust blindly any Social Media Influencer for your hard earned money! Always have curiosity to learn more and develop a trading system that works for you best. Give this new year a new start!
Education
by amit034
14
Rules By Warren Buffett (Educational)Hello everybody, today, we are going to talk about Warren Buffett and his rules and advice. Who is Warren Buffett? In an abbreviation, he is an american businessman and investor with an property of over 100 billion dollars. He is an old-school, but in some way, his rules are really impressive and are working. He also wrote an preface for the best book ever written on investing, The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham. 1. Reinvest Your Profits When you first make money, you may be tempted to spend it. Don’t. Instead, reinvest the profits. 2. Be Willing to Be Different Don’t base your decisions upon what everyone is saying or doing. Have your own reason to buy the stock. 3. Limit What You Borrow Buffett has never borrowed a significant amount — not to invest, not for a mortgage. In other words, if you can´t buy it twice, you can´t afford it. 4. Be Persistent A young boy who sold Coca-Cola for a nickel ended up being a majority shareholder of Coca-Cola. This transition does require persistence. Warren is an Realistic Optimist. He believed they will succeed but with planning, effort, and persistence even when times are tough. You don´t have to make deals every day, just watch markets and paper trade. 5. Know When to Quit Once, when Buffett was a teen, he went to the racetrack. He bet on a race and lost. To recoup his funds, he bet on another race. He lost again, leaving him with close to nothing. Buffett never repeated that mistake. 6. Know What Success Really Means Despite his wealth, Buffett does not measure success by dollars. In 2006, he pledged to give away almost his entire fortune to charities. 7. Stay In Your Circle Of Competence Imagine Circle with 3 layers. In the smallest layer, inside the circle, are things that you really know. In middle of circle are things that you think you know, but you don´t. And in an outer layer, the biggest one, are things that you don´t know. Warren recommends to stay in the smallest layer and just buy what you really understand. Otherwise it doesn´t mean that you have to be closed to every opportunities, but first of all, learn something about it. And this leads us into another topic: 8. Always Learn This is really important to understand, because you have to learn new things, that´s no rule, it´s an habit that you need to make. Learn about market every day, read articles, books, papertrade, watch youtube. In these days is super easy to learn something, all you need to have is good wifi connection and phone or notebook. Warren reads up to 500 pages every day. Try to beat him :) (good luck) 9. Two Legendary Rules These 2 rules are good to know, it seems really clear, but someone had to tell you: 1. Never Lose Money 2. Never Forget Rule Number One And that´s serious guys! Never lose money, that´s not your style. 10. Diversify When you are buying penny stocks, you have to buy one large-cap stock, because penny stocks are volatile and can drop to 0. It can make you big profits or big losses. With a large-cap stock, you will protect your portfolio from total crash, because large-cap stocks are not as volatile and as risky as penny stocks. You should diversify in sectors too. If in your portfolio are only oil companies and price of oil will go rapidly down, well, good luck. When you have money in oil companies, you should buy some stock from another sector, for example real estate or healthcare. Quotes By Warren Buffett „Cash was never a good investment." „I´d rather buy a wonderful business at a fair price, than a fair business with a wonderful price." „Big oppportunities in life have to be seen." „No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can´t produce baby in one month by getting nice women pregnant." End So, seems like we are at the end. Thanks for your effort to read it all, because my view is that it is really educational and you should know it. If you agree with me and Warren Buffett, please make sure you liked and i´ll see you again at another post. Have a nice day.
SP:SPXEducation
by TommyTK247
2
Morning star candle pattern buyer-seller psychologyMorning star candle pattern buyer-seller psychology: The sellers are in complete control in the downtrend before the pattern starts, * The first candle in that pattern sells heavily, and with the Big Red candle the sellers paint a picture of their full control. • The opening of the 2nd candle has a selling down through a gap down, then the sellers start buying when the price goes down. This leads to a lot of buyer-seller fights and an indication of small body red / green candles. * The seller loses control of the 3rd candle through the gap up and the buyer takes full control of the green candle. The uptrend begins. # Conservative traders wait for the 4th candle for confirmation and many enter the 3rd candle gap up
COINBASE:LTCUSDEducation
by PRINCE_MAHMUD
Morning Star Candlestick Pattern: Trading strategy!🌟🕯️ ✳️The Morning Star candlestick pattern is a candle formation that can often be seen on price action charts. It has a bullish character and can often determine the main minimum of market fluctuations. ✳️Three candles in a figure are one of the mandatory conditions of the pattern. Nevertheless, it is quite easy to find the morning star on the chart. It's easy to make sure of this – just look at the shape and location of the “Morning Star" figure. ⚠️ The shape of the Morning Star pattern So, the formation consists of three Japanese candlesticks. Each of them must meet certain requirements. 🔵 The first candle is a bearish one with a rather large body and the absence of wicks or their presence with a very small length (no more than 10% of the body); 🔵The second candle is with a small body or completely without it. The candle should be with small wicks. The color of the second candle does not matter; 🔵The third candle is bullish with a large body. The body of the third candle should cover most of the body of the first candle (or engulf the whole body). Also, the candle should be without shadows (ribose) or with very small shadows; 🔵There should be a gap between the central candle and the other two. But, as practice shows, it is not always a prerequisite. ❗ Location of the candle model "Morning Star" ❗ The morning star is a bullish formation. Therefore, it is located at the end of a downtrend. The central candle is the local minimum of the downtrend. After the formation of this Price Action pattern, you should buy an asset. ❗ Signal amplification of the Morning Star model ❗ 🔴If the central candle was formed without a body, then the pattern gives almost 100% about the change of the downtrend to an uptrend. This model is also called the "morning star Doji" or "abandoned baby"; 🔴The presence of a gap between the central candle and the other two candles strengthens the trading signal; 🔴The bullish central candle is stronger than the bearish one. But the strongest is bodiless; The third candle completely covers the first candle; 🔴The presence of a small trading volume at the first candle and a large volume at the third candle strengthens the model. ✅ When to enter into a transaction We enter into the transaction after the closing of the third candle. It is confirmatory in the "Morning Star" pattern. This is a kind of guarantor of the model. ✅ When not to enter into a transaction Everything is simple here. If the pattern does not satisfy the main conditions, then we do not enter into the transaction. It will no longer be a morning star model, but something else. ❤️Friends, If you want more of these articles, like comment and subscribe❤️
Education
by TopTradingSignals
22
How To Be Success Trader II Lesson 11 - You must learn analysis and basics well, such as knowing important terms such as margin, leverage, lot, point, pairs and the relationship between them, the meaning of indicators and commodities and how to calculate the point,, and then delve into technical analysis and study the basics such as trend lines, supports, resistances, Fibonacci, price action and patterns 2- You must create a successful and good trading plan for yourself and you must take into account the trading times, the fixed strategy you will work with, the choice of pairs and the time frame that you will work on. 3- You must first practice on a demo account, preferably with the same amount of capital that you will deposit in your account later, so that you can know the measure of your profit and loss and better test your psychology and strategy. 4- Do not use hedging (hedging is buying and selling at the same time on the same pair) 5- You should be a good watcher of the news, because there is strong news that you should avoid trading while it is being issued in order to preserve your capital.
OANDA:XAUUSDEducation
by Fx_Vanguard
2
The 2 Types of Trading Mindsets!Hello Traders! Here I have identified the 2 different mindsets you can having when trading forex, crypto, indices and stocks. These are the challenges I have had to face in my trading career to become as profitable as I am today! The main reasons for failing to make profit while trading is because of the 99% mindset most people have. Many reasons for failing to take good trades are due to the impatience and the lack of discipline within yourself. One key issue I have learned over my trading career is a trading plan in critical! Failure to prepare = Preparing to fail. With a solid trading plan you will never feel emotional or lack of confidence when taking a trade as you will have strict rules you always follow. Removing this emotional fear of loosing money or failing to reach you take profit will help you out win the long term as you never feel that pressure and is one of the biggest reasons a trader fails to trade and sustain consistent profit. The 1% mindset is the prime mindset you want to have and sustain while trading. Manging you mind and following strict rules is how people become millionaires from trading. Rather than being reactive to the market conditions be proactive and be prepared for any scenario! Thanks for taking the time to expand your knowledge! Check out my other ideas below!
OANDA:XAUUSDEducation
by Pips-Collector
2