Recommended reading?

 
Can someone suggest what they think might be the best books, articles, websites to read in order to get started in trading? I'm new to forex and understand the very basics, but the terminology has got me lost. I feel like I need to know more before I can effectively start testing and understanding my results and the factors that change them. Thanks
 

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Excellent, thank you!
 

Well... great that good for you.

- just please... be patient and never 'feel' you 'must' take a trade - like death and taxes being sure events, their will always be another trade passing your way!


Wish you well in this very exciting journey

:o))

 
I just found a book yesterday call "Way of the Turtle" by Curtis Faith. Goes over a lot of rules and best practices for trading safe, smart, and taking it slow. Looks interesting. I don't think its Forex specific, but it certainly seems to help new people start to think like a savvy trader.
 

Go for it G !

Personally, I'd say that trading is a doddle... BUT the mind game is the biggie (certainly is for moi) where income verses expenses is an issue. When manually trading, guess what? one must as they all seem to say Pull the trigger. At the other end again, ya gotta stick to your system and exit, exit and... exit! Is always easy after the event to sit staring at the screen and do the if only I'd... game. No point - either you follow a plan 100% or is mostly sure thing that expenses greater than income. So look after your mind by all means. If you browse around, you will see that massive amounts is written about the psychology part of financial trading - what instrument type is irrelevant. Let's be honest here: up,down or sideways... what else is there? So any half way decent trading plan will see you in profit - as long as you sincerely follow it and... learn about how to manage your income, how to make it work for you - not against you.

Think very long and hard about the concept of compounding - as they say "from small acorns, do great oaks grow". Never a truer statement - imho.

Is obvious that you are prepared to do some book work - and... apply what have read - cool!!


Always remember that reading around a subject is good because you are exposed to data which in the normal course of daily events, you would never come across.


Suggest you keep a daily trading log too.

What made me trade?

If not open trade when trading plan said 'enter'... why not?

What was I feeling at time of trade? eg, pulse up or face flushed or calm and 'just going about the business'...

What made me exit?

What feelings had when made exit?

If not take exit when trading plan said 'exit'... why not?


  • oh yes, in same log or separate log, keep trade details. Then, armed with your 'mind' log or? you can go back later and take another look at the lie of the land - but great thing then is, you will not have any mental buttons to be pushing, nothing to cloud the mind... end result is that post trade analysis could well show you just where and why you did what you did [to your benifit or not :o]

heck... could go on for ever here, but IF not able to have some sort of coherent answers to above and like questions, well, seems to me that your style will grow up in an unpredictable way.

ie, the word consistent will not be your by-word... :o))

 
Thank you for the suggestions. I don't think I would have thought to journal how I was feeling. I'm definitely keeping my goals humble. If I could trade for a living eventually, awesome. But, for now, I'd be happy with some extra money to go on a nice vacation. I'm only going to work with real money when I know I have a method that will give me wins more often than the inevitable loses.
 

As a business there is nothing wrong with expenses is there?

Is all about how the business uses the income it does make.


do not over fixate on W/L ratio. not the only reason one makes income...

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