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Perfection: Traits of the High Achievers

As if I nor anyone else needs to tell you, the ability to achieve perfection in just about any endeavor is an unlikely prospect. What we refer to as perfection, in many cases, is moreso
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The Story So Far, By Reader X

Just recently, we had a post on our board about “making it” on your own, full time, from scratch, as an independent trader. This question naturally comes up quite a bit as it is one
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Forex Trade Planner

The Decision Plan – An Alternative Process to Trade Entry

I think it was around 2 years into writing this website that we started getting into some deeper discussions about how and when you pull the trigger on trades. One of the reasons I started
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Unexpected Gains

Hounding my readers isn't something I'm particularly a fan of doing. I always try to have a significant amount of content published before sending out an e-mail to anyone subscribed to my list. As I
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How One Of Our Readers Used Evernote to Kick a Horrible Trading Habit

I have mentioned several times on this site that keeping a catalog of your past trades and other key concepts in a separate folder on your desktop is a great way to have constant reminders
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Leviathan Thomas Hobbes

Correctly Applied Knowledge is Power: Bridging the Gap Between Learning and Application in Trading

Once again a reorg of this site has brought up a few gems that I'm taking to heart these days. This one came from a comment on my Death By Opinion article, one of my
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EURJPY 15 Minute Forex Chart Patterns and Trendlines

When You're Lost In The Woods, Don't Wander Around

Boy oh boy, have I gotten tired of myself these past few days. I wanted to redesign this site for quite some time now to serve a number of different purposes, and just overall get excited about
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6 Jedi Mind Tricks for Bad Trade Management

It's usually not the setup that's the worry, it's the management. We recently covered an article here whose primary focus was using quant strategies to overcome human behavior and in it, discussed how poorly people
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Oanda Order Book

Quantitative Strategies vs. The Idiocies of Human Nature: Using One to Help The Other

I had some friends come by to pay me a visit not too long ago and to much of their surprise, found my discretionary systems alongside another that runs strictly on basic velocity and acceleration
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