Recent Content by The_Merchant

  1. Food for Thought

    Wait...most? Pretty sure one or more of those three is the reason everyone fails at everything. But I think number 3 is the only one that's not...
    Post by: The_Merchant, Jan 31, 2017 in forum: Psychology

  2. Food for Thought

    But even on the Savannah our "fast instinctive response" led to us turning away from a predator, not towards it. This might actually be the answer...
    Post by: The_Merchant, Jan 30, 2017 in forum: Psychology

  3. Food for Thought

    Cognitive biases. Yes, I think that's what I'm driving at. It would make sense to me that cognitive biases are NOT the cause of bad trading...
    Post by: The_Merchant, Jan 30, 2017 in forum: Psychology

  4. Food for Thought

    So as an amateur psychologist who is friends with several professional psychologists, something occurred to me recently. In psychology there are...
    Thread by: The_Merchant, Jan 30, 2017, 34 replies, in forum: Psychology

  5. Daily stop-loss - your risk management strategy

    I've never used a daily stop loss. Always a per trade stop loss. I know that no matter how many times I trade, I'll win more than half. Let's say...
    Post by: The_Merchant, Dec 13, 2016 in forum: Risk Management

  6. Human brain is wired to lose in the markets

    "The human brain is wired to lose in the markets." FALSE "The publically educated brain is wired to lose in the markets." TRUE If you want to be...
    Post by: The_Merchant, Nov 28, 2016 in forum: Psychology

  7. How do you determine trend direction?

    If you believe that the market only has two types of movements (trend and consolidation), then you identify trends by identifying the completion...
    Post by: The_Merchant, Nov 26, 2016 in forum: Technical Analysis