Day Trading Tactics
Methods for Improving Your Trading Results
Day Trading Focus
Many new traders underestimate the amount of trading focus required for active trading. Trading on the surface appears to be a bunch of flashy numbers and charts moving in real time with very little meaning. It is up to the trader to tune into what the market is saying in order to capitalize on gains.
Here are simple steps an active trader can use to improve their focus and trading performance:
Do Not Answer the Phone
If you are an active trader, cut your business or home business phone off when you are trading. Even the sound of a phone ringing can break your concentration and can cause a lapse in judgment. Phone conversations are completely out. These conversations will distract you from the task at hand, making money and cause you to lose your focus.
The worst scenario is: you hear the phone, you answer it and the person you are talking to brings about negative energy or causes you too become emotional thus further breaking your concentration.
Again, trading is a professional trade, you need to work and not be concerned with outside day to day things that have no consequence to your life at the moment. Don’t answer the Phone or at least use a Answer Device to handle any calls.
Leave the Radio Off
Do not look to entertain yourself by playing your favorite cd or listening to your ipod while you trade. In the real world if you try to do this, you will lose money. Music brings about emotions, which have no business in trading.
Stay Off the Internet
Do not chat or email friends or check the local weather while trading, the reason is that before you know it, a few seconds, minutes or even hours may have passed and the stock you were waiting to breakout did so and you missed the trade.
Trade Standing Up
In many brokerage firms and sales organizations, you will see young brokers standing up talking on the phone. The reason for this is by being in motion, it brings inner energy out of you. When you sit reclined and relaxed it breeds apathy. Get out of your chair, lean over the monitor, yell if you have to. But become an active participant, because if you sit back you are reducing energy and it may lead to apathy in your trading.
Talk to Yourself
Talking to yourself in any other profession would be looked upon as a sign of weirdness, in trading, this will help you keep your focus. Thinking out loud will prevent you from making any sudden bonehead decisions because it is harder to follow through with something if you have to speak it into existence. Talking out loud also makes you think things through, thus letting the control of the game idea come to you. Many day traders speak of how they were doing well one minute, then out of nowhere they put on a trade that did not meet any of their trading criteria. If you can't be honest with yourself, who can you be honest with?
Day Trading Focus
Many new traders underestimate the amount of trading focus required for active trading. Trading on the surface appears to be a bunch of flashy numbers and charts moving in real time with very little meaning. It is up to the trader to tune into what the market is saying in order to capitalize on gains.
Here are simple steps an active trader can use to improve their focus and trading performance:
Do Not Answer the Phone
If you are an active trader, cut your business or home business phone off when you are trading. Even the sound of a phone ringing can break your concentration and can cause a lapse in judgment. Phone conversations are completely out. These conversations will distract you from the task at hand, making money and cause you to lose your focus.
The worst scenario is: you hear the phone, you answer it and the person you are talking to brings about negative energy or causes you too become emotional thus further breaking your concentration.
Again, trading is a professional trade, you need to work and not be concerned with outside day to day things that have no consequence to your life at the moment. Don’t answer the Phone or at least use a Answer Device to handle any calls.
Leave the Radio Off
Do not look to entertain yourself by playing your favorite cd or listening to your ipod while you trade. In the real world if you try to do this, you will lose money. Music brings about emotions, which have no business in trading.
Stay Off the Internet
Do not chat or email friends or check the local weather while trading, the reason is that before you know it, a few seconds, minutes or even hours may have passed and the stock you were waiting to breakout did so and you missed the trade.
Trade Standing Up
In many brokerage firms and sales organizations, you will see young brokers standing up talking on the phone. The reason for this is by being in motion, it brings inner energy out of you. When you sit reclined and relaxed it breeds apathy. Get out of your chair, lean over the monitor, yell if you have to. But become an active participant, because if you sit back you are reducing energy and it may lead to apathy in your trading.
Talk to Yourself
Talking to yourself in any other profession would be looked upon as a sign of weirdness, in trading, this will help you keep your focus. Thinking out loud will prevent you from making any sudden bonehead decisions because it is harder to follow through with something if you have to speak it into existence. Talking out loud also makes you think things through, thus letting the control of the game idea come to you. Many day traders speak of how they were doing well one minute, then out of nowhere they put on a trade that did not meet any of their trading criteria. If you can't be honest with yourself, who can you be honest with?
