Saturday, July 4, 2009

Analysts Anaylze Traders Trade

It is important to understand the difference between being a trader and being an analyst. The first one tries to make money through actual trading, while the later tries to make money by selling advice in some form. Always trust your own technical analysis beyond any other person's advice, regardless of the source. You MUST have faith in your own ability to analyze the market, and stop waiting for others to tell you when and where to take trades. One of the goals of my new mentoring program will be to teach my students how to think and "see the market" for themselves.

Check out any major Forex message board or chat room and you will see that there are always plenty of individuals willing to offer up their advice. Even better they can be so convincing that others in the room will blindly jump into a trade based on the advice! Best of all you can usually find two equally convincing traders both offering the opposite advice at the same exact time. Never ever enter a trade based on some other person's suggestion. Never ever!

You can even find professional paid analysts offering up contradictory advice, along with pivots, supports, and fibs that all differ from each other. That is why you need to have your own method of analysis that you know inside and out. You may be a day trader that is trading a minor downtrend, while the analyst whose advice you are reading is looking very long term at a major uptrend. Depending on the time frame you are trading it can and will completely change your perspective on things. Know the time frame you are trading. Know the profit you are seeking and stop loss you can accept. Know your entry and exit signals. If you are confused and struggling from month-to-month like many traders, I can help. My mentoring program will be starting within the next two months.

Until then best of luck traders!

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