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Why experienced traders win less often…
Why is it that newer traders often have higher win rates than experienced traders? Surely an experienced trader should be the better trader and therefore be right more often? They can indeed be if they have a strategy that doesn’t look for big gains but what we tend to find is that the more experience …

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Why the majority of traders quit….
We all know the odds. 90% of traders quit within 90 days of opening a trading account. But why? We can apportion much of the blame to lack of education/knowledge about how to trade because many people say they started trading because of an advert they had seen.  I would imagine the typical story is …

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Why your mechanical strategy doesn’t work…
Here’s a typical trading scenario for you. You’ve been trading for some time and know your way around the charts, heck, you even know how to thoroughly back test a new strategy. In fact, you’ve found a lovely looking intraday pattern and have back-tested it with various inputs to come up with the best way …

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