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- Joe Ross replied Jan 22, 2010
Trading Seminars — What are trading seminars and what value do they have. We can look at the advantages and disadvantages. Seminars are a form of information exchange. A group of people interested in trading come together for discussion of ...
- Joe Ross replied Jan 15, 2010
Why Take a Trading Seminar? — If you had the opportunity to learn a simple technique that offers you all of the following, wouldn’t you want to grab it? This technique: • Tells you where to place your stop loss in any market or time frame. • ...
- Joe Ross replied Jan 8, 2010
Using chart patterns — Hey Joe! I’m looking for consistency. Are the classical chart patterns sufficiently consistent for trading? Can you make a few comments about reliable chart patterns and how to use them? Chart analysis, which some people ...
- Joe Ross replied Dec 21, 2009
Handling fear — A reader asks: How do you handle fear? I seem to have plenty of it. Let's get one thing straight. Fear, for the majority of traders, is a very real thing. You have it, I have it. Others have it as well. What is it that traders ...
- Joe Ross replied Dec 11, 2009
Winning Currency Traders — The winning currency trader must be cold, calculating, and logical. It is absolutely necessary to control your emotions, rather than let them interfere with your trading decisions. While it is true that fear and ...
- Joe Ross replied Dec 4, 2009
Can seasonal transitions help a trader? — Yes! Seasonal transitions create workable Spread strategies. I'll let my friend Jerry Toepke, an expert in seasonal fundamentals, answer. Jerry! You have the floor: "Change gives birth to risk - but ...
- Joe Ross replied Nov 20, 2009
Leverage Is a Double-edged Sword — The foundation of the forex industry is leverage. A few years ago we saw how LTCM used $4 billion to leverage over $1 trillion dollars in assets. George Soros used forex leverage to earn $1 billion dollars ...
- Joe Ross replied Oct 8, 2009
Planning for contingencies — No one likes to think about the worst-case scenario, or to make a detailed plan to recover should it happen. It's just one strategy for learning how to trade in a relaxed but focused way so that, should you ever ...
- Joe Ross replied Sep 25, 2009
Finding your own trading method — Try to find a trading method that will reflect your psychological bias towards trading. Not all traders have the patience to trade a computer system and watch the trades give back large amounts of open equity. ...
- Joe Ross replied Sep 18, 2009
How to separate the ego from trading — Have you ever wondered how to get your ego out of your trading? Have you wanted to be market-centered, but find yourself consistently being self-centered? One thing I know for sure: your self concept has ...
- Joe Ross replied Sep 11, 2009
Is it okay to spread a losing trade? — No way! While it is good trading to spread a winning trade if you feel the need to hedge your position, never spread a losing trade. Simply exit the market. The usual net result of spreading a losing ...
- Joe Ross replied Jul 22, 2009
Self Control — To become a truly successful trader you must become a truly committed trader. How do you get yourself to be in control? Statistics and society may predict, but you alone determine whether you will succeed or fail. You alone are ...
- Joe Ross replied Jul 17, 2009
How important is it to be creative in your trading? — I’m not sure I can describe it in terms of importance. The creative process is somewhat of a mystery, even to scientists who study it. There are a few common characteristics that all ...
- Joe Ross replied Jul 8, 2009
The nature of the trading business — Consider the following: As a trader you are in a business. Your strongest opponent has plenty of capital. He follows a program and he does it without emotion. He is totally aware of the fact that no one ...
- Joe Ross replied Jun 19, 2009
Is learning the trading business like learning any other business? — The importance of how you learn the business of trading cannot be minimized because of the factors that determine your success or failure. Learning the business of trading is ...
- Joe Ross replied May 15, 2009
Overconfidence — How should a trader deal with “overconfidence?” Maybe a better question about confidence--trading and otherwise--is not why people are overconfident to begin with, but why they stay overconfident. You see, the problem with ...
- Joe Ross replied Apr 13, 2009
Discipline — Yes, I agree, it boils down to following your system. but I think that's only part of it. I would add self-control as being part of discipline. By that I mean there are situations in which your system falls apart. It is then that ...
- Joe Ross replied Apr 10, 2009
Discipline — The following question arrived in the mail this week: "When you were teaching us at our forex office in Florida, you stressed discipline. Our head trader stresses discipline. What I want to know is if discipline can be acquired or ...
- Joe Ross replied Mar 9, 2009
Focus and Concentration — Hi daytrading, The question is not too personal. I traded from 1957 through most of 1987 strictly alone and for a living. In Sept. of 1987 I was struck down with a severe illness that almost cost me my life. I was in ...
- Joe Ross replied Mar 2, 2009
Focus and Concentration — Hi belekas. I cannot go into a long explanation here in the forum. But I suggest you do some serious self-introspection as to why you are unable to focus. It has been my experience after having trained many, many ...