Hi all,
I have decided to start a second thread on FF, succeeding ‘The Good, The Bad and the Ugly - A Real Trading Record’ thread that I have been posting on in Trading Journals for many months now. That thread is an unabridged record of my short term day trading that I undertake full time for a living. This new thread will not post actual trading, rather it will be a series of discussion posts building over time to create I hope a comprehensive coverage of every aspect of short term trading from the the very first steps up. I’ve called it ‘Keep Calm and Carry On Trading’ mostly to satisfy my unfortunate sense of humour and because I think it does encapsulate a rather important emotional requirement about trading. Much more on this in due course.
I have been investing and trading, professionally and personally, for over 30 years and for the last decade short term trading has been my full time occupation and principal source of income. If you would like to know more about me and my trading I would refer you to ‘The Good, The Bad and The Ugly’ thread where it has all already been set out. I hope this thread might become a useful source of ideas and thought for traders, whatever their experience, expertise, style, markets or timeframes. Most of what I will set out I believe is universally applicable in all trading and I will be happy to field any and all questions and queries as we go along.
Without further ado, then, time to get started, appropriately enough at the beginning by addressing the question of should we really be trading at all?
I have decided to start a second thread on FF, succeeding ‘The Good, The Bad and the Ugly - A Real Trading Record’ thread that I have been posting on in Trading Journals for many months now. That thread is an unabridged record of my short term day trading that I undertake full time for a living. This new thread will not post actual trading, rather it will be a series of discussion posts building over time to create I hope a comprehensive coverage of every aspect of short term trading from the the very first steps up. I’ve called it ‘Keep Calm and Carry On Trading’ mostly to satisfy my unfortunate sense of humour and because I think it does encapsulate a rather important emotional requirement about trading. Much more on this in due course.
I have been investing and trading, professionally and personally, for over 30 years and for the last decade short term trading has been my full time occupation and principal source of income. If you would like to know more about me and my trading I would refer you to ‘The Good, The Bad and The Ugly’ thread where it has all already been set out. I hope this thread might become a useful source of ideas and thought for traders, whatever their experience, expertise, style, markets or timeframes. Most of what I will set out I believe is universally applicable in all trading and I will be happy to field any and all questions and queries as we go along.
Without further ado, then, time to get started, appropriately enough at the beginning by addressing the question of should we really be trading at all?