Hello fellow traders, I hope you’re all trading well during these first few weeks of January 2012. You may or may not be aware that I’ve been writing a monthly article for Traders’ Magazine on What Type Of Trader Are You? This month’s article is on the difference between Greed Based Traders vs. Fear Based [...]

This a great blog piece by Peter Brandt about the differences between Traders & Analysts.  Would make a great piece for my “What type of Trader are you?” articles.  Are you an analyst or a trader? http://peterlbrandt.com/thank-god-im-a-trader-not-an-analyst/  Read and inwardly digest! FXTraderPaul

A very interesting article by the ever lovely Raghee Horner on what your Trading lifestyle maybe costing you in time. http://www.ibfx.com/Corporate/post/2011/01/19/Whats-your-Trading-Lifestyle-costing-you-in-time.aspx The results of her time analysis make interesting reading. Enjoy Paul

No trading at all for me yesterday. After the FOMC results, and the massive movements that followed, Wednesdays charts all looked overextended to me and very uninviting. Deciding that there was too much risk out there for me I took myself off for an early gym session at 9 a.m. and never came back to [...]

Well I’ve not written a piece under the what type of trader are you banner for a while so I figured I might as well get stuck in. And I figured I might as well just cut to the chase with this post.  Quite simply are you an Amateur with a hobby or a Professional [...]

For those of you that read this blog regularly you may have been wondered why we have been a bit quiet recently. Well since our last event I’ve been ill with an eye infection which meant that I couldn’t even cast a glance at my screens for almost 3 weeks. I felt as if I [...]

This morning started as usual with me waking up about 10 minutes before my alarm going off at 0530 hrs. I turned the tele on ready to watch World Business Report on BBC1 to get a little update on what’s been happening over night as I got my brain into gear. By 0550 hrs I’m [...]

Everyone wants to be right 100% of the time in trading. Why do you think that there are so many people trying to sell dodgy trading systems with 97 -98 – 99 – 100% success rates? Humans generally don’t like to lose and experience pain so we’ll do anything to avoid it, especially when it’s [...]

Fellow Trader,  There are only 24 hours left to claim your early-bird discount for the next PipHunter Advanced FX Trading day on Friday 7th May 2010.  After spending a year of working for a private hedge fund, this will be an opportunity for us to pass on our experiences to other serious traders.  After our last [...]

The next chapter in my occasional series about what type of trader are you focuses on the longs vs the shorts.  Are you predominately a Bull or a Bear? Have you reviewed your trading records to determine any bias in your trade selection to either the long or the short side? Some people just can not [...]