LACK OF BASIC FINANCIAL MARKET KNOWLEDGE Most beginners tend to believe that trading does not require any great theoretical knowledge of the financial market. And because reading a few…
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Trading more money that you can afford to lose If you are new to trading, you are likely to be full of optimism, which in trading, as I say in…
There are a large number of things that could end your trading career early. For example, not having a good financial education. However, this can be compensated for by other…
Discretionary traders have been thinking that they don’t need to know any programming languages and that they don’t need to rely on a computer to do things for them because…
This is the most common question that people ask when the curiosity about algorithmic trading arises in them for the first time. It’s not easy to give an accurate answer….
NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF OPTIMISM IN TRADING The biggest one is a propensity to ignore risks. One of the reasons why beginners fail—apart from their lack of technical knowledge, of course—is…
If you walk into a bookshop, you will see there is an entire section on “self-help” and “positive thinking”. The message in these books can be simplified in a few…
Trading a stock is very straight forward. Buying it means becoming the owner of a stock that will rest in your bank account until you sell it. Legally, it will…
What is an ETF? An ETF is an exchange traded fund, which is a fund that tracks indexes like the S&P 500 and Dow Jones. When you buy shares in…
ETFs have become extremely popular in the investment industry. If you have some savings, you might already have some of them in your portfolio. They have been the most disruptive…
