Category Archives: Trader Psychology

For a trad­er, psy­chol­o­gy is job one.

The Psychology of Congestion Action

In con­ges­tion action trad­ing we move from one lim­it to anoth­er, and reap our har­vest at the edges, plac­ing trades near the con­fines of con­ges­tion. The per­fect per­son­al­i­ty for this type of trad­ing is the aware tech­ni­cian. In con­ges­tion action trad­ing, we know our lim­its. The task at hand is to be per­fect in our exe­cu­tion, and to gath­er in every stalk of grain in the field. Har­vest time is here.

On Early Warnings

On ear­ly warn­ings. We speak here of pre­science, prog­nos­ti­ca­tions, and ear­ly warn­ing sys­tems. We speak of intu­ition and mag­i­cal think­ing. And we look at meth­ods of fore­telling change in crit­i­cal times of peace and war, and in nature. We would all like to be pre­scient traders. If we could fore­tell the future we would be […]

The Psychology of Trends

Many if not most traders wait until the trend is estab­lished and then paus­es, before they try to jump aboard. Often they are tim­ing their move exact­ly wrong, when the trend in ques­tion has paused for good rea­son, name­ly that it has reached high­er time peri­od sup­port or resis­tance. This fre­quent­ly means they are buy­ing resis­tance or sell­ing support—a clas­sic and expen­sive trad­ing error.