20 Most Common Trading Mistakes: And How You Can Avoid Them
Kel Butcher [Butcher, Kel]You're a trader. You live a life of glamour, fast cars, leisure and luxury -- everything you've ever dreamed of ...
Of course, that's until you discover that trading can be brutally difficult. If you play the trading game, you are going to make mistakes -- maybe even some like these:
- agonising endlessly over when to enter or exit a trade
- trading like a maverick, risking too much of your capital
- beating yourself up when a trade goes against you
- losing $1 million in a single trade
- clicking 'buy' instead of 'sell'
- buying 10 000 units when you only meant to purchase 1000.
20 Most Common Trading Mistakes reveals market mishaps from some of the biggest names in trading. Everyone - from stellar traders to complete novices -- can use help learning how to trade in the black. Why not learn from the masters how to turn blunders into profit?
From the Back CoverYou're a trader. You live a life of glamour, fast cars, leisure and luxury — everything you've ever dreamed of ...
Of course, that's until you discover that trading can be brutally difficult. If you play the trading game, you are going to make mistakes — maybe even some like these:
- agonising endlessly over when to enter or exit a trade
- trading like a maverick, risking too much of your capital
- beating yourself up when a trade goes against you
- losing $1 million in a single trade
- clicking 'buy' instead of 'sell'
- buying 10 000 units when you only meant to purchase 1000.
20 Most Common Trading Mistakes reveals market mishaps from some of the biggest names in trading. Everyone — from stellar traders to complete novices — can use help learning how to trade in the black. Why not learn from the masters how to turn blunders into profit?
About the AuthorKel Butcher is a financial markets trader with almost 20 years' experience trading shares, futures, options, warrants and CFDs. Kel is a regular contributor to YourTradingEdge magazine and acts as a consultant to a managed fund, a boutique trading company and a share-trading software developer. Kel is the author of A Step-by-Step Guide to Buying and Selling Shares Online.