Your personal trading strategy
Find the trading style that fits your time, patience and reaction to losses, and build a strategy you can follow for years.
Don't wear someone else's glasses: build a strategy that fits you
Six short lessons on choosing a trading style that fits your personality: a ten-question self-test, a four-step roadmap and an emotions journal.
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Strategy: the glasses you see the market through
Why copying a trader's strategy rarely works for you, and what research on personality and trading results says about choosing your own method.
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The story of Nicolas Darvas: the dancer who made his own glasses
Nicolas Darvas lost money on tips, then built his own box method around a life of travel. Four lessons from his story for choosing your own strategy.
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Why copying someone else's strategy usually fails
Five reasons copying a trader's strategy rarely works: hidden exits, someone else's life, a different temperament, extra risk and nothing learned.
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The four trading styles, and two more choices
Scalper, day trader, swing trader or position trader? Compare holding time, timeframes, daily time and who each style suits, plus two more choices.
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The ten-question trader self-test
Answer ten questions about your time, patience, losses and decisions to find the trading style that fits you: scalping, day, swing or position trading.
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Build, test and grow your own strategy
Write a one-page trading plan, test it on demo and at small real size, keep an emotions journal and update your strategy as your life changes.
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