Podcast:
In this video:
00:50 How you can progress with your trading goals heading into 2014
02:36 How many trades are you going to take per day or per week
04:30 Creating a trading plan
06:07 Good technical analysis
Let’s talk about your trading goals for 2014. Do you have any in place? If you do have fantastic but if you don’t let’s talk about some ideas right now.
Hi traders! Andrew Mitchem here, the Forex Trading Coach. Today is Friday the 13th of December so hoped you’re not too superstitious for that.
Trading Goals for 2014
Well as we head towards the end of the year in terms of the trading year we’re seeing some quite of movement on the charts mostly due to the lower volumes that are going through the market right now. So actually it’s really a good time of the year to actually spend over the next couple of weeks some time to reflect on what you’ve done good and bad this year and also how you can progress with your trading heading into 2014.
I’ve made a list here that I’d like to just run through with you that’s just going to give you some helpful hints and some tips about what you should maybe look for on your trading plan and your trading goals for 2014.
How much time do you want to spend on your trading
So start with, for example how much time you want to spend on your trading? How much time can you dedicate? How much time would you like to dedicate to trading? You don’t need to be spending like hours and hours every day but and also the more time you trade does not always mean the more money you make. But just write down how much time do you want to spend or can you spend trading each day.
What time of the day suits you to trade in terms of what works with your job if you’re working, with your family, with any the other social activities you might do. What days of the week suit you best? What times of the day suit you best to trade? What currency pairs do you like trading? Do you look at order pairs that your broker offers or do you concentrate on just the major pairs or maybe you’ve got one or two minor pairs that your favorite. So write those down.
Are you going to be trading only in the direction of the longer term trend or only in the direction of the daily trend using the strength and weakness analysis that I publish each day. Is that going to be something that’s going to aid you? For today, if you’re looking for Australian Dollar/ US to fall like I am today, am I only going to be taking trades on the four hour charts, one hour charts, fifteen minute charts in short positions only and ignoring all buy positions. Write that down if that’s a rule for you.
What are your trading Goals?
How many trades are you going to look to take per day or per week? What happens if you reach that limit? Let’s say your goal was to take no more than five trades in a day and you’ve taken five and you see really good setup? What are you going to do? Are you going to take it? Are you going to leave it?
What performance goals are you going to set yourself per day or per week? Let’s say that your goal is to make 2% per week and let’s say by Wednesday you’ve achieved over 2% and you see a really good setup. Are you going to take that or not? So you need to have these rules set in place. So what it would do by having that plan under those rules in place it will help eliminate the like sort of trigger reactions and the emotional reactions when you’re there taking trades live.
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