5 Benefits of a Trading Community
When you first start to trade, you can quickly become lost. Whether you know it or not, you have no idea which challenges lay ahead, and how could you? I blew my account several times over when I first began,…
Karl
Trading Top Tip: Learn Before You Earn
A mistake most novices make is to try and jump straight in to the market, with no real idea what they are doing. I know, because I did exactly this. They inevitably wind up losing money, and most give up…
Which Type Of Trader Are You?
The amount of time a financial instrument is held by a trader defines their style of trading. The type of trader you are, or choose to be, will be highly dependent on your personality. Do you prefer to have complete…
Is Bitcoin A Bubble?
The Formula For Making Millions
Trading is often seen as a field that is associated with an extremely niche skillset. In 1983, legendary traders Richard Dennis and William Eckhardt conducted what later became known as ‘The Turtle Experiment’ after Dennis turned an initial stake of…
Portfolio Update and Markets to watch this week!
The most recent portfolio update is out, after making around $1500 last week. The biggest trades were $Soybeans, $Cocoa, NZDUSD and $BTC Also find out which markets I am looking at closed this week, such as $EURCHF, and $Natgas. If…
Top 5 Technical Indicators
Portfolio Update: 10/10/2017
The portfolio has been mixed across the week and remains at a drawdown of around 14% from all-time account highs. Natural gas has lead the way as the biggest winner, finishing up at a total of around $2000 profit including…
5 Habits of Successful People
Being successful isn’t a walk in the park. I’m not the most successful trader out there, but I have managed to achieve a lot in a short period of time. At 18 I started trading whilst at University. By 21…
Removing the human factor with systems trading
Almost every career is at a threat of having people replaced by machines. I know this was one of my main worries whilst at university; studying a degree steeped in logic, how long was it before the human error I…
Portfolio Update & September Round-up
In the last couple of weeks the portfolio has pulled back from all-time-highs and September finished down -3%, after initially being up 10%. Drawdowns are the most frustrating and difficult part about trading, as it is much more difficult to…
How to use margin and leverage
This blog is going to talk about one of the topics I receive more questions on than anything else: leverage and margin. More specifically, how these two characteristics of trading can enable you to utilise your equity to its maximum,…