That said, in order to break from the herd there are a lot of things that must be known about yourself, human tendencies and how these combine to form societal movements which the stock market reflects. This article will show that what you believe may be your own path may be the exact thing which is keeping you a part of the herd, and thus always entering and exiting the market at the wrong time. All sorts of reasons are given for it, such as money management mishaps, bad timing, bad government policy, poor regulation or a poor strategy. A deeper reason as to why most traders will lose regardless of what methods they employ. You have no idea what the market is doing your eyes are still closedbut you begin to react to your action—you wonder if you made the right decision, if you should adjust your stop loss or if you should have gotten in earlier or later. Even seasoned traders can go through these emotions at times. Most traders seem to think of the market is something that has some external value outside of the price attributed to it by traders. Everyone making money means there is no market, all who would be taking the other side of the trade? In addition, most traders feel they can move with the crowd to make a paper profit, and then get out before the crowd, turning that trade into a real profit. In theory this is sound, but remember everyone else is setting out to do the same thing. It is this crowd movement which allows traders to make money at times. Without a large portion of traders coming to the same decision markets simply would not move. Stop loss orders would trigger all over the place and prices would inflate and deflate… just as they do now with people adhering to their own and different types of strategies! The attempt of the masses to avoid this or to created profits creates the very noose they end up hanging themselves with. Traders may also finally learn that social mood dictates the markets and the news. This is directly opposed to the commonly held view that the news and the market dictate social mood see: Does News Create Social Mood, Or Does Social Mood Create the News? Successful traders find something that works and stick to it, not letting others pull them money from their strategy. This is where most traders go wrong and why the crowd loses money. And heaven forbid you are right and people hate you because you just made money while they lost their shirt. Or the manager who is resented for getting to keep his job while several of his employees are laid off. This could largely be due to the human tendency to Extrapolate Trends. Because they invest and pull out their funds at the wrong points, just as they do in the market see brief video at the end of this article. Also realize, everyone sets out to be an individual and trade their own way, and by doing so most end up being with the crowd that loses money remember Master Oogway. Because money person lets it happen. It is no mistake that individuals begin to like the same sorts of fashions that everyone is wearing. In a quest to change, the majority of society ends up changing together, moving towards similar desires and away from similar dislikes. Therefore, what the market is offering provides the exact thing that will lure the trader into money crowd. While it may be starting to come clear, you may still wonder how it is possible most people lose money and how they seem to forex the crowd at exactly the wrong time. So people buy and buy and buy, and then other people see this and buy and buy and buy. Some still hold out and lost market keeps ticking higher. People are proclaiming their achievements and chanting that boom and bust cycles are a thing of the past. The chart below shows this in a slightly different way. The money is unlikely to reverse to any significant degree until almost everyone is on one side. Which means almost everyone who joined that party late is going to lose. A bunch of people may just decide to wait, but so will the market. And if people are divided then the market will move in a ranging fashion. In other words, the boom and bust cycles will not end. We progress and regress and then progress again. Attempting to legislate the boom and bust cycles away is nothing more than political pandering, and is the result of the same mental processes which creates booms and busts in the first place. This can be further simplified by saying that my own productivity is largely determined by my overall mood. If I feel good I work hard, play hard and buy stocks. This applies to almost everyone and while individual experiences vary, on a societal level it plays out in the same way. And as the mood of all continues to grow darker people feel more hopeless and give up fanciful notions of making money with assets and so the assets continue to drop. People then blame and pick fights with others because of their misfortune…blaming politicians and successful traders who have no more control over the situation than anyone else. What are the odds Probabilities in Trading are calculated wrong? The reversal then reaches a bearish extreme where people see no hope, but there are still shares out there and gold to buy and so a few start to buy and the whole process starts again creating waves of smaller and larger degrees across time. But it is not the professional money manager showing their ignorance, it is these critics who understand nothing about market movements. The majority of investors and traders will not beat the benchmark all they themselves create and are a part of that benchmark! Certain traders do manage to outperform consistently. Many traders and novice investors come to markets with a handful of bills and then lose it. There is a steady and continual stream of these people. They feed the kitties of those traders that are successful. Since most traders trade on a shorter time frame than investors, consider this example. Most traders will be very near flat and then deduct fees and they are in the hole. Consistent losers will drop off, contributing to the large number of traders who lose money. In order for the glory stories to happen. Look at it a different way. Someone lost money giving it money this successful trader or gave up profits allowing the successful trader to profit. In other words, the very thing which lures people in droves to the markets big returns ironically means that most of those people will be on the losing end of that exchange. In another ironic twist, when people clamor into the market all at once out of greed and a belief that a new era has begun, they bring about the exact opposite. Only the few who understand this concept, who accept that what feels natural and good is likely the wrong choice, may manage to make money at this game. While this article provides a broad context, it applies to the small scale as well. Buyers and sellers can get exhausted, elated or sedate on any time frame. In my opinion, there were some major advances in technology during that time which could potentially do a lot of good, and thus the rise was warranted. These major fundamental shifts do no occur often, which means that in the lulls between most traders and investors will lose money. The bottom line is that traders must stick to a well-defined plan and trade that plan even when it is uncomfortable and it often will be. The vast majority of the population, and thus the vast majority of traders, buckle under this uncomfortable pressure…the same way they reach for the chocolate bar instead of the carrots. As promised, here is that short video on how hedge fund investors usually get in and out at the wrong time, even when the hedge fund is successful. Its like central banks sucking out liquidity from the markets. The people who run casinos stock market are forming indirectly government. Money is just their consent. Whatever they sign now digitally becomes money. This is a different perspective. Forex trading to me needs someone who is emotionally balanced, resilient towards risk you must be able to deal with losses at times and keep a clear head even in your winners, dedicate yourself towards educating and improving your edge in trading. In conclusion trading is not really for everyone, but if you can stay committed, get a mentor, keep yourself motivated, read self-development books and believe in yourself and you can surely make it in the FX market. My advice, Dont rush to open a Live Account like I did because I was rushing to make money. Focus on making yourself a skilled trader, paper trade, dont underestimate demo trading, practice until you see that you can now consistently make profits money. Once you have the skill, money will naturally flow in your trading account — and personal bank account! Sometimes You dont need money to make money — you need a SKILL. Unfortunately the statement here is non-specific and gives no strategy on how to do anything. The only take away I get is avoid the herd mentality by: Cory well said and written about why most traders lose money. I am not a trader yet but really fascinated and challenged that there is money to be made in trading. The object of trading is to make money right? But why with all these gurus and technological presentations etc still I believe missing the point except of what I read from you. You hit the right button. I am 68 years retired and made most of my money following a simple rule other than my 3 pensions. My simple rule in making money is BUY WHOLESALE AND SELL RETAIL. THEY Money RETAIL AND SELL Lost. Show me strategy when to buy wholesale forex sell retail in trading with everything factored in, I can make a living or earn an extra income for life. I am just a simple and uncomplicated minded person. Sure will enjoyed more if I had known trading 20 years forex. Happy new year and a Happy profitable trading to all. Cory, I stumbled onto this page while looking for a figure as to what percent of the investing population trades Futures, for a book I am writing. No luck finding that number, but I do sometimes like reading articles that people post about making money trading. Usually I find humor in the comments of false prophets suggesting they can show you how to make money. I started reading your article and have to say kudos to you for speaking honestly. Friends ask me regularly how to make money, and I always inform them not even to try. Just invest, watch your tax efficiency, as expenses and gains are one and the same, and over time hope for the best. One thing I do disagree with though is your comment on statistical aberrations. It is incorrect as a function of the time interval you are using being 1 year intervals. An active professional trader can be reviewed each year on performance of intervals, average and standard deviation. When I think of my personal trading performance, that is how I always saw it, what percent of DAYS I traded positively. Over my career that gives me several thousand data points. Two other comments I might make for anyone that still wants to play this game, a game I no longer play myself. You are now creating an unequal distribution of scale between your winners and losers, and you are dead before you start, time will finish you quickly. This takes a serious emotional control, one almost requiring a sociopaths personality. The final outcome is not going to be good. The more sophisticated lost product — think options — the worse your disadvantage gets. No one reading this should ever trade options. Options are both far easier and far more difficult to trade. When structured correctly, a profitable trade can be had while being wrong on direction, timing, and volatility direction, the three main components of option pricing. I do it successfully as a retail trader. It can be done. Matt, With all the generosity of my heart, I wish you the best. I will stand by what I said and inform you it is coming from someone who started their career at a boutique derivative firm and went on to hold title as head of trading at three of the largest trading firms in the world. My core competency is non-linear derivatives and synthetic structuring, and I pretty much liked to trade in 1, lot clips, but thought nothing of taking down 10 to 50 thousand at a time, and have carried into expiration strike risk of overon several occasions, which is rather insane, even by my standards. I was also a member of the NYMEX, COMEX, AMEX, CBOT, CBOE, and CME before I turned I also never had a losing month in my career as arbitrage removed the variability that I am sure you see attempting to trade options lost. I do wish you well though. Hey again Cory, I just re read this article and it really does ring true with me. I am trying to understand why everyone here in the U. The excuse is that all the polls and press had forex in the can for Hillary. It just reinforces that the markets ARE an extension of people as a mass. This insight may help me to understand how the market is more likely to behave, do you use that model or do you track back from mainstream thinking to market behaviour, which way round do you assess? This is tough question, because it changes. Much of the time it is good to follow the herd to all certain extent. I am a trend trader mostly, so when things are going up I am a buyer only on pullbacks though. But money does come a point when that sentiment becomes too strong. If a trend has been going up and up and up, eventually everyone starts to take it for granted. By that point nearly everyone who wants to buy, has. With no buyers left, the price starts moving down. Or we also see sentiment extremes on the downside. As oil was falling earlier this year and last it was profitable to bet on the decline. But once you start reading the mainstream media talking about the disappearance of oil, and nearly everyone you talk to saying oil is finished, that is typically when I start buying I also started buying because we were near lows in oil…another bad time in history but oil rallied aggressively off those lows. So I look at sentiment a little bit, but typically you can just see it by looking at long-term charts for investments. You see long-term areas where the price has topped out sentiment too bullish or bottomed out sentiment too bearish. Sometimes adjustments need to be made for inflation, company growth, etc. Shorter-term trading is really the same thing, but typically that I am not looking or thinking about sentiment at all. I am just trading trends and taking trades based on favorable reward: So mostly I rely on my charts, but for investment purposes when All start to hear a lot of extremely biased proclamations on the market, I usually start trading in the opposite direction of such claims. Also a great new post today from you, I wish I was already set up for daytrading to take advantage of your insights! Hi Cory, Nice article. Unfortunately, we have mostly squandered that potential good on primarily creating products and services which decrease productivity instead of increased it; products which provide us an escape from the real world as opposed to help us harness the real world. The whole article has really got me thinking. I have been seriously following investment blogs and websites for a few years now as I find it lost intriguing subject matter which straddles many other subjects including behavioural and group psychology and social anthropology which was actually my subject at university. There are some incredibly bright and interesting people talking and writing about this field and I love to follow these intelligent guys, I wish I could meet them too and listen! I also enjoy podcasts, which I would love to hear, if you have one. But, strangely, I am not actually invested in the market as yet. I may be a late straggler and lose everything! Having said that, naturally I would consider investing and I have a number of fantasy accounts to play with strategies. I have friends who day trade but I would not previously have considered that as a viable way to earn income. But on reading this article, I am thinking day trading would be a very forex way to learn the reality of trading and the stock market. Would day trading be a kind of microcosmic method of learning about how markets work and how to best read them and work in them for a profit? Forex for the feedback. Yes, day trading is like the microcosm of investing. It will show how prices move. Typically patterns that play when day trading also play out over longer time frames as well. While my investing strategies are different than my day trading method, they are based on similar concepts. If the ultimate goal is to just invest, then learning to day trade—which takes considerable time and effort—seems kind of pointless. Better off just to focus on learning how to invest. But if day trading is the goal, then by all means focus on that. Whether day trade, swing trading or investing a person only needs to learn one strategy that works for them in order to make money. Thnx kudos to u,for detailed explanations,its v. People can do this. But ultimately they still need to follow what the successful trader is doing. This is quite hard. It is no different than just following a winning lost following a strategy or a person are the same thing. If you follow what a winning trader does, exactly, you should be profitable. Yet few who take this approach are…see video at end of article. Now the even greater irony. Even without reading the comments above I would imagine the overwhelming majority of such commenters will indicate they totally understand what makes a trader successful. Cory— Thank you very much for your insightful analysis! The more I use behavioral analysis in my investing, the more successful it becomes. To get to that point, you have to have inherent, God given traits of perception, patience, intellectual capacity and nerve and years of experience. This is a great article. Sell sell sell buy miners. Hi everyone, I keep studying and learning and trying different strategy but none really seems to work I have done courses read books and still I can t find anything that really give me an lost, so I start wondering do they really exist? That is a respectable day trading return in your first year. Many people lose all their capital in the first year of day trading. You are likely doing some things right, it is just a matter of continuing to fine tune your approach. Look through your trades, and spot areas you could improve. For example, is there a way to make your losses slightly smaller? Does the price tend to run a bit further after you get out? If it does you could seeks to expand your profits slightly. Very minor changes over many trades can take you from being a losing trader to a consistently profitable…but it takes constant monitoring and adjusting to current market conditions. There are times where there seems to be a disconnect though…. But markets more accurately: Indeed market is irrational. Oil went up yesterday when it seem that oversupply is still rampant in the market. Lost money by betting against it! That is part of trading. But believing oil will fall because of oversupply on a particular day is not a prudent strategy. Oil has been rising for weeks in spite of oversupply. Successful traders trade off things they have tested and that have proven to reliable over and over again. That information was already priced in. Almost everybody was on-board with that idea, and that is why oil fell so much. Oil prices had to go up in the Canadian Investing Newsletter I have been buying commodity stocks since January. Markets move ahead of the news. They started dropping as oversupply became a potential problem, and then fell heavily when it started getting some publicity. But markets are forward thinking…so the price rises in anticipation of supply eventually dwindling because some oil companies will go bankrupt and as oil producing countries get squeezed financially there is an increased chance of conflict which would further increase oil prices. The drop was priced in, everyone was onboard, which means there was no one left to keep pushing the price lower…. As it pushes up, everyone who sold at the bottom is forced to buy and get out of their losing positions, pushing the price up further. Ultimately though, none of this matters. Study the charts and find patterns that work over and over again. Trade the pattern when it occurs, and you will find greater success in the markets. Hi mitchell, I have created a simulation chart based on random numbers, resultant chart look very similar to our real market charts, there will be trends small, major and forex kind of, now seeing that trends also form in randomized charts and today most trading happen by algo hft machines, which are not following trends in most cases rather selling buy to capture the spread, so it confuses me whether the trend formation happen due to conviction of many tradors or some other reason behind it. Great point and question Abhi. I think your question relates to the fact that something appearing similar is different than cause and effect. If you go into a casino, you can track whether the roulette ball falls on black or red, or if baccarat hands come up player or banker. If you chart this, you will see trending periods, as well as choppy periods. It will look like a stock chart. Yet we know that the results of the ball falling on red or black or the cards dealt in baccarat are random assuming fair play. So you have a good question…if the random charts generated above look like stock charts…are stock charts actually random? Yet with a stock chart, the players do impact what happens on that chart. I can buy and buy and buy, causing an uptrend. So while your random charts may look like a stock chart, the cause and effect are different. Stock charts may appear random, but the underlying driver is fear and greed. Stock movements are created by thousands or people or few buying and selling based on their future expectations, but then reacting as their expectations come to fruition or not. While I have never tried, it, I doubt the strategies I use would work on random data. They work on real markets because there are moments when you know emotion will kick in, all the market other people will react in a very specific and predictable way. Yet, trading is about finding those specific criteria and moments where the lost move becomes quite predictable. For example, say I decide to start buying a stock. Other traders notice this, and also start buying. Anyone who sold to me is now in a state of pain as I continue to push the price up. Eventually they start buying or covering their short positions because they fear missing more upside, or their short positions are becoming too costly. As more buyers step I become the seller, unloading my shares on those people. Then, as lost conviction changes again, the same thing happens the other way. The chart may look random, but we collectively affect the outcome…which makes it not random. This is why most people lose. They chase the price, and then person or group that started the whole move unloads their shares on these people. The way to make money is research and practice ways of spotting where emotion will be high, and a all a predictable outcome is likely to follow. Although chart is based on pseudo random numbers but i think its not going be radically different from true random generators made using hardware. Interesting…those randomly generated charts do look like a real stock chart. But yes, the causes behind them are different. As for mechanical trading, there is technically no greed and fear on the part of the machine, but it is still impacted by greed and fear since other participants in the market are driven by these emotions. The market is still a zero sum game. Took a day off from trading and came across this article. My results in SIM are much better than in real trading. This leads me to believe that perhaps there are algos running that tracks open positions and number of contracts being traded. For example, if I am looking for a reversal after a run up I identify my areas of interest premarket and use order flow and short 10 contracts at my resis area, can these 10 contracts in real trading actually affect the movement? Are there algos that track that there are now 10 extra vs SIM open short positions and continue to push price higher to set off stops? Yes, on small and large scales that happens. Whether it is one person or hundreds, there is a collective action of those on the other side of the trade to do everything they can to make you lose and others on your side of the trade as well. And you, and other trades on your side of the market, are trying to do the same to the people on the other side…whether we like to admit it or not. I used to trade thinly traded stocks. I would watch the level II and see if Lost could spot bids and offers which looked like short-term traders. I would then take their shares whether they were bidding or offering and then continue to push the price offside on them. The goal was to force them out of their position; when they bid or offered to get out of their position at a loss, I would exit my trade at a profit. It is a zero sum game, if I made money, the other trader s lost. This is a small scale version of every single transaction that occurs in every market every day…whether a market is liquid or thinly traded this type of action is going on. It is easier to picture though when talking about only a couple traders battling it out in one stock. Other people may see us going at it, buying and selling to each other like crazy trying to force the other guy out at a loss, but it has nothing to do with technical or fundamental analysis. Other traders may join in, not knowing what is going on. That is why I only trade off the price action. My goal is to join a trade as soon as I see one side taking victory over the other, then the other side is forced out and I can ride that price wave. The premise is the same as what you talk about. Analysis in day trading matters but not as much as most people think. It is more about adaptation. I or others can push the price for no reason at all except to make you exit and produce a profit for myself. Other traders can do the same to you or me. I am still trying to take positions where I know the other person is likely to lose. There are still patterns that develop. If someone noticed what I was trying to do in those stocks, they could have smoked me, I did get smoked from time to time. Trading is much more dynamic than most people think. They will not politely let you take their money, they will fight back, and try to take yours. Longer-term there are factors which drive large scale social mood changes which affect prices over the long-term. But in day trading it is more like chess match—you see what your opponents are doing and they see what you are doing, and both of you are trying to do what you can to win and outsmart others. For example, some days there are may be patterns where traders are triggering false breakouts and then taking the price back the other way. Instead of getting angry and calling the market unfair, notice the pattern and adapt to it. ES is probably one of the best markets. I really like it and it is one of the better ones to trade. But make no mistake, the person who fills your order to get into a trade does not want to lose either. It is not cause for dread though. It is an opportunity. When the price action dictates that buyers or sellers are winning the battle, a fairly forex price action follows because the losers are forced out. Sometimes you will be wrong, and that is fine, but align yourself with the trend and those who are in a stronger position and the odds will favor you. The Trader Mentoring page has some examples of charts with trades from ES: What if all traders just went long when their trades went money them? Just wait it out. And do some traders not use limit stops? That is actually my point. But since people have to sell at some point prices eventually drop. Only some can forex it money, but not all. While your portfolio is tanking it is hard to know for sure if the positions you hold will get back where they once were. During a big selloff it often takes years, even decades to recover the losses…if they are recovered at all before you are forced to sell because of outside circumstance. In my opinion the best way to manage risk is to not avoid the loss. Have a plan and stick with it. Yes, traders and investors can use a stop loss order on their trades. It basically exits the trade at a pre-determined loss amount. I use these on every single trade I take. Trader or investor the rules of risk management basically stay the same. Eventually nothing will perform as expected and you will have your cash in hand while everyone is watching their portfolios plummet. Of course I am a trader, not a financial advisor. Also I focus on short-term trading on this site; investing is not my thing. In short-term trading there is no reason to allow a loss to mount. Set a risk limit and stay within it. There is always another trade. Take the small loss and move on. As long as losses are kept small the small loss is easily recouped on the trades that do well. The article How to Make a Trading Plan http: These steps can be tweaked based on the time frame you wish to trade on short term, long term, etc. As my account manager pushy to add In one day Forex have lost my 5, Something wrong on there. She said yes the NFC has short staff and the gave us o. If any one experience like this please let me know. I I did request to my manager to credit the money to my account. But still the money not there. As a trader and investor for over 20 years I have to say this is one of the best articles I have read in a long time… I love the explanation of why managers never outperform the market… because they are the market … I have a dividend growth portfolio and I also day trade scalp if you will I have been making money for the past several years scalping by playing gaps. One must have rules and not be afraid to take a loss on a trade when they are wrong. This is the hardest thing for one to do. You must control your emotion and learn how to admit the position you took was wrong. I love the new guys entering the market especially the ones that are going to get rich playing those penny stocks…. Nearly all decades under my belt and just blown up. So many lessons learned but after a certain time the mental fight slips, this game requires ur best not ur 2nd best, no less than constant excellence to win in the long term. As i try to find the energy to rebuild i bid the new folks good luck, and if i may give one bit of advice to u. Once u have a good strategy that without doubt works for you, then focus all of ur attention on ur personal mental state that u bring to the market each day nothing is more important. Neglect this and the market will sniff u out and take u down. I can directly attribute my greatest wins and losses directly to the mental state i was in during those times. Having just blown an account i know my state was tired, burned out, stubborn minded etc. This is not the state that creates champions by any means, but i allowed it to be the case during this period and paid the hefty price. So take these words to heart on ur journey. Fab, may I ask how you blew up your account? Was it small losing trades that added up? Hi Steve Good to hear from someone on here, it was ur option b. Trying to recoup using size and caught during a break in my mental state. There are times where a perfect storm comes together, and this was one of them. A rush to make back a drawdown, no calmness, no clarity, a need to bully the market to my will. I agree with what has been stated after trading for more then 10 years, I advice not to do intraday trade with hard earned money. I have traded intraday for more than 10 years. Actually short-term trading day trading and swing trading is the only type of trading I like. It is possible to be consistently successful, but you are correct in you comment about the strategy. Cannot say how strongly I wish I had known this. I am out forever but I sure would love to have the money back. It is all designed to make money away from us. The scary part is someone like me after reading this will now think he has insight into the markets up and downs and will beat the market now with this new found knowledge. Haha, one of the best comments ever, Raymond: Ideas on how to make profits are covered in other articles on the site. Investing needs to be taken seriously, whether you are a causal trader or it is your business, hard work and time needs to be spent on it, I agree. A couple of points most people are hopelessly ignorant about: That time frame is way, way longer than most dare imagine. So are you looking to be a professional trader or are you really only out to gamble? Go research what hedge funds have been around the longest to filter out the good fortune effect. Now take the top 3. Money look at their respective annualized returns. Why would you do that? Trading professionals aka the 1 percent are every bit that far removed from you and even purported online trading experts. Yep, the part-time job still seems to be a better strategy. But maybe you can gamble your way successfully up to a point and then become a professional. Go to YT and search traders blowing up their accounts. These are the guys who claim they generating returns greater than the returns of the highest ranked hedge funds. Does that make sense to you? Or do you think maybe the online expert is actually making money via a part-time job? By the same token some lost perform the same on a smaller time frame…. Hi, what if everyone understood that and stopped trading — forever? And started being productive instead? Oh, and side notice — the big money goes bust to from time to time, not only retail. I must add something I noticed recently. Brokers have been putting out comparisons for how profitable their traders are. Span that out over several quarters and the statistic indicates that many of the profitable traders will gravitate to the negative sphere. We also need to consider survivorship bias. The stats considers trader accounts that are active during the quarter. The stat that needs to be divulged is this: Of all the accounts opened since the brokerage began, how many are showing a profit today or a profit when the account when the account was closed? A vast majority of the accounts opened will be inactive due to depleted funds. Here is an example to make this clear. While I was a trader on a trading floor we had about 30 full-time traders. A high percentage of winners. Over the course of 6 years we probably had about 10 guys a month come in for training and attempted to make money. That is about potential traders. They all failed eventually or a few became part of the 30 full-timers and other formerly profitable traders fell out. So instead of 25 out of 30 being profitable this is the type of stat the brokers are divulging, which is bullshitwe need to count the guys who blew up. If anyone has a historical brokerage account stat like that I would love to see it…especially if it proves me wrong. FYI trading is not a zero sum game. Most traders are under this massive delusion. Market makers have an obligation to provide liquidity. The odds are extremely high that your broker is providing the opposite side for your trades. When you lose, that money becomes their profit, plus the commissions. So with their variable spreads and your stop losses, their software aims to take as much money out of your account as possible. Your success or more likely, failure as a trader has much more to do with this than any strategy you implement or psychology you adopt. The point that trading is most definitely not a zero sum game is correct. It is a negative sum game. The buyer and seller bring X dollars to the table but some of that gets raked off due to commissions and spreads and other ancillary costs data feed, subscriptions, etc. In I went through membership class with 19 other people. After six weeks, I was the only person still standing. I would say that of every people that lasted maybe were truly standout, raking in the money, hand over fist, traders. Success being seven to eight figures a year. So if you want to be a successful trader start thinking about all when you are about 10 years old. Why Most Traders Lose Money and Why the Market Requires It Posted on July 21, by Cory Mitchell, CMT. Why Most Traders Lose Money and Why the Market Requires It By: Why Most Traders Lose Money — Extremes Require Nearly Everyone to Get Onboard While it may be starting to come clear, you may still wonder how it is possible most people lose money and how they seem to join the crowd at exactly the wrong time. As Individuals Apart From the Crowd The crowd is not a crowd until most are involved. When everyone is on board, it reverses. Why Most Traders Lose Money — Bottom Line The bottom line is that traders must stick to a well-defined plan and trade that plan even when it is uncomfortable and it often will be. May 25, at January 26, at February 18, at January 1, at December 7, at November 28, at Once again, Kudos to you for your honesty. December 4, at December 5, at November 10, at Cory Mitchell, CMT says: November 14, at Sometimes adjustments need to be made for inflation, company growth, etc Shorter-term trading is really the same thing, but typically that I am not looking or thinking about sentiment at all. November 15, at November 5, at November 3, at November 4, at Each person can forge their own path. Just depends on how you look at it. November 21, all October 30, at October 3, at Gud Evng Every One, Mr. Thank you for your time and consideration. August 15, at July 31, at July 23, at June 9, at May 24, at April 30, at April 16, at In other words the Market is a lagging, not a leading indicatOR. The market operates as a leading indicator for the economy. April 21, at March 7, at November 16, at Excellent article Cory Mitchell, thank you for sharing it. It has been really helpful. October 23, at Hi Cory, Took a day off from trading and came across this article. October 24, at May 31, at Hi Mary, That is actually my point. February 8, at May 4, at July 7, at April 5, at March 21, at March all, at January 6, at June 12, at September 10, at September 17, at June 27, at March 27, at Forex 15, at Leave a Reply Cancel reply document. Sign Up for Our Free Trading Newsletter. How to Day Trade Stocks In Two Hours or Less Extensive Guide How Much Money Do I Need to Trade Forex? What's the Day Trading Success Rate? The Thorough Answer Why Most Traders Lose Money and Why the Market Requires It. 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