Tag Archives: unconcious competence

28/8/2015: What can a newbie trader learn from the events of this week?

August 28, 2015

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Hello traders, So how have you fared this week?  Well I did say on my Sunday post that this would be an interesting week! I was struck by some of the comments on forums and Facebook pages by people about their experiences of being on the wrong side of markets or not understanding what was […]

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The Traders’ Forum – Saturday 6th April – Central London

March 19, 2013

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Fellow Trader, You may have seen emails / details for an event I am organising / contributing towards. There is a special Traders Forum event taking place on Saturday, 6th April I and I have some very exciting news regarding the agenda for you. We now have several guest speakers confirmed for the day including: John Burford, whom many of […]

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What type of Trader are you? An Amateur with a hobby or a Professional with a business?

September 22, 2010

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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 […]

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The Exciting Life of a Trader…..

March 5, 2010

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NOT! The last 2 days have been exceedingly boring (tradingwise) as perhaps the market prepares itself for NFP day today. So whilst the market does nothing I have watched all 12 episodes of season 4 of Dexter – I love that program and OMG what a shocker at the end. Absolutely fabulous! It always help […]

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2 March 2010 – A Funny thing happened this morning…..

March 3, 2010

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It’s been a pretty cool trading day today. Not one of those range busting pip days we have been seeing recently but a lot more of the ebb and flow that I like to trade. Chatting to Paul on Skype this morning both of us were looking to see what was on offer. Funny thing […]

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Welcome to 2010 and an exercise in checking your Tradingbeliefs.

January 3, 2010

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Welcome to 2010 fellow Traders!  I’ve taken a couple of weeks break and not even looked at charts during this period. However that does not mean that I can still not work on improving my trading.  This is a great time to reflect on 2009 and plan for greater success in 2010.  With the help […]

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The Five Steps to becoming a Competent Forex Trader!

November 23, 2009

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I can take no credit for this piece (I wish I could) as it was written by another trader (it had to be as only a trader would recognise the journey). If anyone knows who was the original author then I’ll be happy to provide the necesarry credit.  Anyway this is a great piece that sums […]

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