Goodman’s Swing Count System

The Principles of Goodman’s Swing Count System were informally set forth in a series of annotated commodity charts from the late 1940’s to the early 1970’s. These trading studies simply titled ‘My System’ were the work of Charles B. Goodman and were never published.
I met Charles Goodman at the Denver, Colorado offices of Peavey and Company (later, Gelderman) in the fall of 1971. It was the occasion of my maiden voyage in the great sea of commodity trading (later, futures). In 1971 silver prices were finally forging ahead to the $2.00/ounce level. A 10-cent limit move in soybeans elicited a full afternoon of post-mortems by traders and brokers alike.
The Peavey office, managed by the late and great Pete Rednor employed eight brokers (later, account representatives). The broker for both Mr. Goodman and I was the colorful - and patient - Ken Malo. Brokers, resident professional traders - including Mr. Goodman and the Feldman brothers, Stu and Reef - and a regular contingent of retail customers drew inspiration from a Trans-Lux ticker that wormed its way across a long, narrow library table in the back of the office. Most impressive was a large clacker board quote system covering almost the entire front office wall. This electro-mechanical quotation behemoth made loud clacking sounds (thus its name) each time an individual price flipped over to reveal an updated quote. Green and red lights flashed, denoting daily new highs and lows. Pete, apart from being an excellent office manager was also a fine showman using the various stimuli to encourage trading activity!
Almost everyone made frequent reference to Charlie’s huge bar charts posted on 2 ½ by 4-foot sheets of graph paper, mounted on heavy particle board and displayed on large easels. No one ever really knew what the numerous right-hand brackets ( ]) of varying lengths scattered throughout each chart meant. But there was always a great deal of speculation! The present work finally reveals the meaning of those mysterious trading hieroglyphics.
The quiet chatter of the tickertape, the load clacking of the quote board, the constant ringing of the telephones. The news ticker that buzzed once for standing reports, twice for opinions and three times for ‘hot news’, the squawk boxes and Pete Rednor’s authoritative voice booming, ‘Merc!, Merc!". What a spectacular scene it was! No wonder that this author, then a 21-year old trading Newbie would soon make commodity futures and currency trading his life’s work.
But nothing made a greater impression on me than the work of Charles B. Goodman. He instilled first, some very simple ideas: "Avoid volatile markets when at all possible" - "Trade only high percentage short term ‘ducks’ " - "Sit on your hands, Dad, sit on your hands". It didn’t take long for me to adopt the ultra-conservative ‘Belgian Dentist’ style of trading, that is - "Avoiding losing trades is more important than finding winning trades"
The Belgian Dentist approach carried with me when I developed my famous AI trading system in the 1980’s - Jonathan’s Wave. Even though it generated 48% annual returns with a zero expectation of a 50% drawdown (according to Managed Account Reports) it drove the brokers berserk because it could easily go a full month without making a single trade!
Charlie’s trading advice, I am certain, allowed me to survive the financial Baptism of Fire that destroys most commodity and currency trading Newbies in a matter of months, if not weeks.
Mr. Goodman was to be my one and only trading mentor. Over the decade that followed he entrusted to me many, if not most of his trading secrets. To the best of my knowledge he shared this information on his work with no one else in such detail.
Charlie and I spent hundreds of hours together analyzing the trade studies from My System. We also analyzed hundreds of other commodity, currency and securities charts. Charlie was happy with My System being ‘organized’ in his mind. But as a new generation technical analyst, I was anxious to see it formalized on paper and eventually in source code on a computer. (To be honest this created a small amount of friction between the two of us - Charlie was dead set against formalized systems and believed strongly in the psychological and money management elements of trading.) Notwithstanding, by 1979 I was finally ready and able to formally state the principles of My System. Because of its equal concern for price measurements (parameters) and price levels interacting together (matrices) I originally renamed My System ‘ParaMatrix’. My first investment management company in the mid-1970’s was ParaMatrix Investment Management and I acted as both a registered Investment Advisor (SEC) and Commodity Trading Advisor (CFTC).
Contrary to ongoing speculation, only two copies of my original 1979 ‘Principles of ParaMatrix’ ever existed. I possess both of them. Charlie’s original My System trade studies were mistakenly destroyed shortly after his death in 1984. What remains of them are the 200 or so examples I copied into Principles of ParaMatrix.
The present work, Goodman’s Swing Count System (GSCS), is a reorganized re-issue of Principles of ParaMatrix with updated charts and a simplified nomenclature that I am sure Charlie would have appreciated; "Keep it simple, Dad!" he would always advise. I’ve also expanded on Charlie’s ideas by ‘filling in’ some less formed ideas such as his market notation, or calculus as he referred to it, and a method for charting which I have dubbed Goodman Charting.
Two of Charlie’s less well-defined ideas are NOT included in this work: 1) Dependent/Scaled Interfacing and 2) Time-Based (cyclical) measurements. There are also a number of intra-swing formations I have not discussed.
My own direction in futures and currencies turned in the 1980’s to artificial intelligence (Jonathan’s Wave) and in the 1990’s and today, artificial life and cellular automata (The Trend Machine). In spite of, or perhaps because of these complicated ‘cutting edge’ computer efforts I continue to view Goodman’s Swing Count System (GSCS) in a very positive light. To this day, the first thing I do when I see any chart is a quick Goodman analysis!
GSCS is a natural ‘system’ for pursuing the conservative Belgian Dentist approach to trading, even without the aid of a computer. This article, in fact, could be used to make Goodman analysis without a computer at all! But it is in fact intended as an introduction to the CommTools Analytic Suite GSCS software. That software is intended as a supplemental tool only for doing Goodman chart analysis.
GSCS trade opportunities are as frequent today (perhaps more frequent) than they were 40 or 50 years ago. I believe the system’s foundations have well stood the test of time. Patterns today are no different than they were decades ago - nor are the twin human emotions - Fear and Greed - that create them. GSCS is an excellent method for finding support and resistance areas that no other method spots, and for locating potential turning points in any market. One of its best suits - it can easily integrate into other trading techniques and methodologies.
I would never recommend or advise anyone to use a 100% mechanical trading system, GSCS or any other!
Is it really a ‘system’? Depending upon your perspective GSCS is between 70% and 90% mechanical. The program available from CommTools, Inc (www.commtools.com) represents the kernel idea of mechanizing perhaps 80% of the system. I now believe attempting to completely code Charlie’s work would be inadvisable.
Mr. Goodman passed away in 1984. It was always his desire to share with others - although as is usually the case with true genius - few wanted to listen. These days we are ever more bombarded ever more cryptic and computer-dependent software programs and ‘black-boxes’. Perhaps now is the time for the simple yet theoretically well-grounded ideas of GSCS to populate.
The publication of this brief work and the GSCS software, I hope and pray, would meet with Charlie’s wishes. His work in extracting an objective and almost geometrically precise (ala Spinoza) trading system out of a simple trading rule (the ‘50% rule’) is most remarkable. It has certainly earned him the right to be included in the elite group of early scientific traders including Taylor, Elliot, Gann and Pugh.
Conforming to the spirit of the original My System, I’ve attempted to keep theoretical discussions and formulations to a necessary minimum. Trade studies in Part 3 of this article must still be considered the crux of GSCS, even though I am pleased with the formalization of most relevant principles in Part 2. The trader weary of theoretical discussions and intrigue will find all the concepts and principles delineated in the trade study examples. Nevertheless, those who invest time in the theory of GSCS will undoubtedly discover an area for further exploration where many new and fresh ideas are waiting to be mined.
In Mr. Goodman’s worldly absence, the responsibility for this work and its contents is solely mine, for better or for worse.
Theoretical Overview and Definitions
The cornerstone of GSCS is the age-old ‘50 Percent Retracement and Measured Move’ rule. This rule, familiar to most traders goes back almost as far as the organized markets themselves. It has been traced to the times when insiders manipulated railroad stocks in the 19th Century.

DIAGRAM 1-1: The 50 Percent Retracement and Measured Move Rule

The first systematic description of THE RULE was given in Burton Pugh’s The Great Wheat Secret. This book was originally published in 1933. In 1973, Charles L. Lindsay published Trident. This book did much - some say too much! - to quantify and mathematically describe THE RULE. Nevertheless, must reading for anyone interested in this area of market methodology. Edward L. Dobson wrote The Trading Rule That Can Make You Rich in 1978. This is a good work with some nice examples. But none of these, in my humble opinion, even scratch the surface, relative to Goodman’s work.
In 1975 a well-know Chicago grain floor trader, Eugene Nofri, published The Congestion Phase System. This small but power-packed volume detailed a short term trading method using simple but effective ‘congestion phases’. While not precisely a work on THE RULE it touched - from a different perspective - some of Charlie’s ideas.

Diagram 1-2: A Congestion Phase

[I mention Nofri’s work also because Charlie was especially taken by its simplicity and because it can work well in conjunction with GCSC. The idea of melding GCSC with a congestion phase approach ought to produce a method of finding those high percentage ‘ducks’ that the Belgian Dentist so much loves! Charlie also felt that Hadady’s work on Contrary Opinion was a natural ‘fit’ especially since the GCSC support and resistance points seldom lie where anyone else thinks they should.]
Still, in the end, it was left for Charles B. Goodman, the great grain trader from Eads, Colorado to extract all the logical consequences from THE RULE and transform it into a robust, almost geometrically precise system.
The logic of THE RULE is quite simple. At a 50% retracement, both buyers and sellers of the previous trend (Up or Down) are ceteris paribus ‘in balance’. Half of each holds profits and half of each holds losses.

Diagram 1-3: A Market Tug of War

The equilibrium is a tenuous one, indeed. The distribution of buyers and sellers over the initial price trend or swing is obviously not perfectly even: Some buyers hold more contracts than other buyers. They have also different propensities for taking profits or losses. Nor does it account for the buyers and sellers who have entered the market before the initial swing or during the reaction swing. Not all of the buyers and sellers from the original swing may be in the market any longer.
Remarkably, GCSC eventually takes all of this into account - especially they buyers and sellers at other price swing levels, called matrices.
Nevertheless, the 50% retracement point IS often a powerful and very real point of equilibrium and certainly a ‘known and defined hot spot’ of which one should be aware. Remember both the futures markets and the currency markets are very close to a zero-sum game’. It is only commissions, pips and slippage that keep them from being zero-sum. At the 50% point it doesn’t take much to shift the balance of power for that particular swing matrix.
THE RULE also states the final (3rd) swing of the move - back in the direction of the initial swing - will equal the value of the initial swing. The logic of this idea, called the ‘measured move’ is seen in the following diagram. At the ‘D’ point one side (in this case the buyers) have won and the sellers are ‘wiped out.’

Diagram 1-4: The Measured Move and ‘Unwinding’

As we have alluded to examples of THE RULE occur at ALL price levels or matrices and many are being ‘worked’ simultaneously in any given ongoing market. This is a critical point. In modern terminology it would be said that price movements are ‘recursive’. Simply stated this means that without labeling you could not really tell the difference between a 10-minute chart and a daily or weekly chart - they all exhibit the same behavior and operate under the same principles of Parameter and Matrix.
The bar graphs below were taken from actual market data. It is functionally impossible to tell apart the time units, with respect to the chart action.

Diagram 1-5: The Markets are Recursive

Now we can begin to informally define SIX of the SEVEN CONCEPTS in THE RULE that Mr. Goodman used to construct GCSC. What had been neglected by previous theorists, users, writers and purveyors of THE RULE was this:
The 50% point is indeed an equilibrium point. As such, the equilibrium must ‘give way’ BUT EITHER SIDE (buyers or sellers) in either a downtrend or an uptrend may prevail at any given matrix or price level.
Goodman realized both the possibilities for a REVERSAL (as in the case of the completed measured move) and a PRICE SURGE. A price surge would be the equivalent to the sellers (in an uptrend) and the buyers (in a downtrend) winning the tug of war within a matrix. In price action this means prices would fall or rise to at least the beginning point of the initial swing!

Diagram 1-6: Price Surge - The FIRST Concept

In other words - the measured move is not a done deal - the 50% retracement (Diagram 1-1a) could also become a ‘V’ or inverted ‘V’ as in the next diagram. The 50% retracement is not a reversal point (necessarily) but should be considered as a ‘point of interest’ where prices may be more likely than randomly to decide whether to continue or reverse.
It may not sound like much, but it is a major discovery.
Clearly price surges are implicit in THE RULE. But they are not visible on a chart unless you are looking for them and unless you are considering the 50% retracement as a ‘point of interest’ and not necessarily a reversal. In fact, most practitioners perceive a price surge as a failure of THE RULE!
Even more importantly, Goodman discovered the implications of THE RULE occurring simultaneously at all price levels. I remember EXACTLY the day and place when Charlie showed me this one - it hit me as truly a grand revelation on the markets!

Diagram 1-7: THE RULE at Multiple Levels (Matrices) of Operation - The SECOND Concept

Here you are: The initial (primary) trend and secondary (reaction trend) as well as reversals (measured moves) and surges are relative to price matrix context. What is one thing in one price matrix may well be its opposite in a higher (or lower) matrix.
(It’s true - Elliot Wave Theory contains the same concept. But with GCSC you can tell BEFORE (in many instances) which it is. In Elliot you can only tell AFTER. GCSC is a predictive system, while Elliot - grand and elegant as it is - is primarily a descriptive system.)
All Price Matrices (levels) - in theory - are part of a larger price matrix,
All Price Matrices composed of smaller price matrices
Of course there is the practical limitation of the smallest possible fluctuation.
Besides Reversals and Surges GCSC matrix concepts include Domination and Generation.
Clearly prices do not always seem to find any kind of equilibrium at the 50% retracement price area. Or, so it may seem. This leads to the third Grand discovery:
The extent a price swing overshoots or undershoots its ideal 50% retracement that price value will be ‘made up’ on the next price swing within the matrix.
Now THIS is the trading rule that can make you rich!
For example, if prices fall only 40% of the initial trend and reverse, the measured move will actually be either 90% or 110% of the measured move point and value of the primary (initial swing in the matrix. The 10% difference - GCSC holds - MUST be made up eventually. This is the concept of Compensation.

Diagram 1-8: Examples of Compensation within a Matrix - The THIRD Concept

Furthermore: If the difference is not fully made up in the final price swing of a matrix the cumulative ‘miss’ value will carry over through each price subsequent price matrix until it does. This is the concept of Carry Over. A ‘carryover’ table is used to add and subtract cumulative carry over values until they cancel.

Diagram 1-9 Carry Over - The FOURTH Concept

When no Carry Over remains, the price matrix is said to have ‘cleared’ or ‘cancelled’. This is the GCSC concept of Cancellation. Cancellation is critical to finding GCSC support and resistance points and other chart ‘hot spots’ where something much less than random is likely to occur.

Diagram 1-10: Cancellation - The FIFTH Concept

The exact method for these important concepts is more fully described in this article, Part 2.
We can now get an early glimpse of what the strange brackets on Charlie’s charts were all about.

Diagram 1-11: Meaning of the Brackets Revealed

Charlie had even more ideas:
The importance of a ‘hot spot’ in relationship to its likelihood of being an important point of support or resistance, reversal or continuation, increased when two or more price matrices cancel at the same price or same price area. This is the key concept of Intersection. There is no analogous concept in Elliot, the most common ‘competitor’ to GSCS. Intersection makes GSCS much more objective and testable than other swing systems.

Diagram 1-12: Intersections - The SIXTH Concept

This article has covered micro formations. Charlie also had compiled a dozen or so extremely valuable macro formations - combinations of micros.
I encourage the reader to examine some charts and find simple areas of the intersection of two (or three) matrices. You will see at once that these points are GOLDEN to the trader. If I had, after 30 years of studying the markets one idea to impart it would be to show you an example of a GSCS intersection in 2 or 3 matrices.
Remember, Carry Over is to the same or NEXT larger price matrix. The above are examples of Independent Intersections. That is, each price level Carry Over calculation is kept separate from the others and ‘tallied’ at the end of each matrix. Charlie had also developed (much less precisely) a concept of Dependent Intersections but it is quite complex, beyond the scope of this article and worth of further codification into software at a future date.

Forex Money Management

Put two rookie traders in front of the screen, provide them with your best high-probability set-up, and for good measure, have each one take the opposite side of the trade. More than likely, both will wind up losing money. However, if you take two pros and have them trade in the opposite direction of each other, quite frequently both traders will wind up making money - despite the seeming contradiction of the premise. What's the difference? What is the most important factor separating the seasoned traders from the amateurs? The answer is money management.
Like dieting and working out, money management is something that most traders pay lip service to, but few practice in real life. The reason is simple: just like eating healthy and staying fit, money management can seem like a burdensome, unpleasant activity. It forces traders to constantly monitor their positions and to take necessary losses, and few people like to do that. However, as Figure 1 proves, loss-taking is crucial to long-term trading success.

Amount of Equity Lost	Amount of Return Necessary to Restore to Original Equity Value
25%	33%
50%	100%
75%	400%
90%	1000%

Figure 1 - This table shows just how difficult it is to recover from a debilitating loss.

Note that a trader would have to earn 100% on his or her capital - a feat accomplished by less than 1% of traders worldwide - just to break even on an account with a 50% loss. At 75% drawdown, the trader must quadruple his or her account just to bring it back to its original equity - truly a Herculean task!

The Big One

Although most traders are familiar with the figures above, they are inevitably ignored. Trading books are littered with stories of traders losing one, two, even five years' worth of profits in a single trade gone terribly wrong. Typically, the runaway loss is a result of sloppy money management, with no hard stops and lots of average downs into the longs and average ups into the shorts. Above all, the runaway loss is due simply to a loss of discipline.
Most traders begin their trading career, whether consciously or subconsciously, visualizing "The Big One" - the one trade that will make them millions and allow them to retire young and live carefree for the rest of their lives. In FX, this fantasy is further reinforced by the folklore of the markets. Who can forget the time that George Soros "broke the Bank of England" by shorting the pound and walked away with a cool $1-billion profit in a single day? But the cold hard truth for most retail traders is that, instead of experiencing the "Big Win", most traders fall victim to just one "Big Loss" that can knock them out of the game forever.

Learning Tough Lessons

Traders can avoid this fate by controlling their risks through stop losses. In Jack Schwager's famous book "Market Wizards" (1989), day trader and trend follower Larry Hite offers this practical advice: "Never risk more than 1% of total equity on any trade. By only risking 1%, I am indifferent to any individual trade." This is a very good approach. A trader can be wrong 20 times in a row and still have 80% of his or her equity left.
The reality is that very few traders have the discipline to practice this method consistently. Not unlike a child who learns not to touch a hot stove only after being burned once or twice, most traders can only absorb the lessons of risk discipline through the harsh experience of monetary loss. This is the most important reason why traders should use only their speculative capital when first entering the forex market. When novices ask how much money they should begin trading with, one seasoned trader says: "Choose a number that will not materially impact your life if you were to lose it completely. Now subdivide that number by five because your first few attempts at trading will most likely end up in blow out." This too is very sage advice, and it is well worth following for anyone considering trading FX.

Money Management Styles

Generally speaking, there are two ways to practice successful money management. A trader can take many frequent small stops and try to harvest profits from the few large winning trades, or a trader can choose to go for many small squirrel-like gains and take infrequent but large stops in the hope the many small profits will outweigh the few large losses. The first method generates many minor instances of psychological pain, but it produces a few major moments of ecstasy. On the other hand, the second strategy offers many minor instances of joy, but at the expense of experiencing a few very nasty psychological hits. With this wide-stop approach, it is not unusual to lose a week or even a month's worth of profits in one or two trades. (For further reading, see Introduction To Types Of Trading: Swing Trades.)
To a large extent, the method you choose depends on your personality; it is part of the process of discovery for each trader. One of the great benefits of the FX market is that it can accommodate both styles equally, without any additional cost to the retail trader. Since FX is a spread-based market, the cost of each transaction is the same, regardless of the size of any given trader's position.
For example, in EUR/USD, most traders would encounter a 3 pip spread equal to the cost of 3/100th of 1% of the underlying position. This cost will be uniform, in percentage terms, whether the trader wants to deal in 100-unit lots or one million-unit lots of the currency. For example, if the trader wanted to use 10,000-unit lots, the spread would amount to $3, but for the same trade using only 100-unit lots, the spread would be a mere $0.03. Contrast that with the stock market where, for example, a commission on 100 shares or 1,000 shares of a $20 stock may be fixed at $40, making the effective cost of transaction 2% in the case of 100 shares, but only 0.2% in the case of 1,000 shares. This type of variability makes it very hard for smaller traders in the equity market to scale into positions, as commissions heavily skew costs against them. However, FX traders have the benefit of uniform pricing and can practice any style of money management they choose without concern about variable transaction costs.

Four Types of Stops

Once you are ready to trade with a serious approach to money management and the proper amount of capital is allocated to your account, there are four types of stops you may consider.

1. Equity Stop

This is the simplest of all stops. The trader risks only a predetermined amount of his or her account on a single trade. A common metric is to risk 2% of the account on any given trade. On a hypothetical $10,000 trading account, a trader could risk $200, or about 200 points, on one mini lot (10,000 units) of EUR/USD, or only 20 points on a standard 100,000-unit lot. Aggressive traders may consider using 5% equity stops, but note that this amount is generally considered to be the upper limit of prudent money management because 10 consecutive wrong trades would draw down the account by 50%. One strong criticism of the equity stop is that it places an arbitrary exit point on a trader's position. The trade is liquidated not as a result of a logical response to the price action of the marketplace, but rather to satisfy the trader's internal risk controls.

2. Chart Stop

Technical analysis can generate thousands of possible stops, driven by the price action of the charts or by various technical indicator signals. Technically oriented traders like to combine these exit points with standard equity stop rules to formulate charts stops. A classic example of a chart stop is the swing high/low point. In Figure 2 a trader with our hypothetical $10,000 account using the chart stop could sell one mini lot risking 150 points, or about 1.5% of the account.

Figure 2

3. Volatility Stop

A more sophisticated version of the chart stop uses volatility instead of price action to set risk parameters. The idea is that in a high volatility environment, when prices traverse wide ranges, the trader needs to adapt to the present conditions and allow the position more room for risk to avoid being stopped out by intra-market noise. The opposite holds true for a low volatility environment, in which risk parameters would need to be compressed. One easy way to measure volatility is through the use of Bollinger bands, which employ standard deviation to measure variance in price. Figures 3 and 4 show a high volatility and a low volatility stop with Bollinger bands. In Figure 3 the volatility stop also allows the trader to use a scale-in approach to achieve a better "blended" price and a faster breakeven point. Note that the total risk exposure of the position should not exceed 2% of the account; therefore, it is critical that the trader use smaller lots to properly size his or her cumulative risk in the trade.

Figure 3

Figure 4

4. Margin Stop

This is perhaps the most unorthodox of all money management strategies, but it can be an effective method in FX, if used judiciously. Unlike exchange-based markets, FX markets operate 24 hours a day. Therefore, FX dealers can liquidate their customer positions almost as soon as they trigger a margin call. For this reason, FX customers are rarely in danger of generating a negative balance in their account, since computers automatically close out all positions. This money management strategy requires the trader to subdivide his or her capital into 10 equal parts. In our original $10,000 example, the trader would open the account with an FX dealer but only wire $1,000 instead of $10,000, leaving the other $9,000 in his or her bank account. Most FX dealers offer 100:1 leverage, so a $1,000 deposit would allow the trader to control one standard 100,000-unit lot. However, even a 1 point move against the trader would trigger a margin call (since $1,000 is the minimum that the dealer requires). So, depending on the trader's risk tolerance, he or she may choose to trade a 50,000-unit lot position, which allows him or her room for almost 100 points (on a 50,000 lot the dealer requires $500 margin, so $1,000 – 100-point loss* 50,000 lot = $500). Regardless of how much leverage the trader assumed, this controlled parsing of his or her speculative capital would prevent the trader from blowing up his or her account in just one trade and would allow him or her to take many swings at a potentially profitable set-up without the worry or care of setting manual stops. For those traders who like to practice the "have a bunch, bet a bunch" style, this approach may be quite interesting.

Conclusion

As you can see, money management in FX is as flexible and as varied as the market itself. The only universal rule is that all traders in this market must practice some form of it in order to succeed.
By Boris Schlossberg, Senior Currency Strategist, FXCM
Reprinted with permission of Investopedia
Boris Schlossberg is the Senior Currency Strategist at Forex Capital Markets in New York, one of the largest retail forex market makers in the world. He is a frequent commentator for Bloomberg, Reuters, CNBC and Dow Jones CBS Marketwatch. His book "Technical Analysis of the Currency Market", published by John Wiley and Sons, is available on Amazon, where he also hosts a blog on all things trading.

Essential Elements of a Successful Trader

Courage Under Stressful Conditions When the Outcome is Uncertain
All the foreign exchange trading knowledge in the world is not going to help, unless you have the nerve to buy and sell currencies and put your money at risk. As with the lottery “You gotta be in it to win it”. Trust me when I say that the simple task of hitting the buy or sell key is extremely difficult to do when your own real money is put at risk.
You will feel anxiety, even fear. Here lies the moment of truth. Do you have the courage to be afraid and act anyway? When a fireman runs into a burning building I assume he is afraid but he does it anyway and achieves the desired result. Unless you can overcome or accept your fear and do it anyway, you will not be a successful trader.
However, once you learn to control your fear, it gets easier and easier and in time there is no fear. The opposite reaction can become an issue – you’re overconfident and not focused enough on the risk you're taking.
Both the inability to initiate a trade, or close a losing trade can create serious psychological issues for a trader going forward. By calling attention to these potential stumbling blocks beforehand, you can properly prepare prior to your first real trade and develop good trading habits from day one.
Start by analyzing yourself. Are you the type of person that can control their emotions and flawlessly execute trades, oftentimes under extremely stressful conditions? Are you the type of person who’s overconfident and prone to take more risk than they should? Before your first real trade you need to look inside yourself and get the answers. We can correct any deficiencies before they result in paralysis (not pulling the trigger) or a huge loss (overconfidence). A huge loss can prematurely end your trading career, or prolong your success until you can raise additional capital.
The difficulty doesn’t end with “pulling the trigger”. In fact what comes next is equally or perhaps more difficult. Once you are in the trade the next hurdle is staying in the trade. When trading foreign exchange you exit the trade as soon as possible after entry when it is not working. Most people who have been successful in non-trading ventures find this concept difficult to implement.
For example, real estate tycoons make their fortune riding out the bad times and selling during the boom periods. The problem with trying to adapt a 'hold on until it comes back' strategy in foreign exchange is that most of the time the currencies are in long-term persistent, directional trends and your equity will be wiped out before the currency comes back.
The other side of the coin is staying in a trade that is working. The most common pitfall is closing out a winning position without a valid reason. Once again, fear is the culprit. Your subconscious demons will be scaring you non-stop with questions like “what if news comes out and you wind up with a loss”. The reality is if news comes out in a currency that is going up, the news has a higher probability of being positive than negative (more on why that is so in a later article).
So your fear is just a baseless annoyance. Don’t try and fight the fear. Accept it. Have a laugh about it and then move on to the task at hand, which is determining an exit strategy based on actual price movement. As Garth says in Waynesworld “Live in the now man”. Worrying about what could be is irrational. Studying your chart and determining an objective exit point is reality based and rational.
Another common pitfall is closing a winning position because you are bored with it; its not moving. In Football, after a star running back breaks free for a 50-yard gain, he comes out of the game temporarily for a breather. When he reenters the game he is a serious threat to gain more yards – this is indisputable. So when your position takes a breather after a winning move, the next likely event is further gains – so why close it?
If you can be courageous under fire and strategically patient, foreign exchange trading may be for you. If you’re a natural gunslinger and reckless you will need to tone your act down a notch or two and we can help you make the necessary adjustments. If putting your money at risk makes you a nervous wreck its because you lack the knowledge base to be confident in your decision making.
Patience to Gain Knowledge through Study and Focus
Many new traders believe all you need to profitably trade foreign currencies are charts, technical indicators and a small bankroll. Most of them blow up (lose all their money) within a few weeks or months; some are initially successful and it takes as long as a year before they blow up. A tiny minority with good money management skills, patience, and a market niche go on to be successful traders. Armed with charts, technical indicators, and a small bankroll, the chance of succeeding is probably 500 to 1.
To increase your chances of success to near certainty requires knowledge; acquiring knowledge takes hard work, study, dedication and focus. Compile your knowledge base without taking any shortcuts, thereby assuring a solid foundation to build upon.

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2. What is the Background the absolute nature of the iron the Programmer?
This is always absolutely a a few good a major piece of evidence amazing to about now the manner system unwavering commitment carry out.
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We demonstratively have pretty come too to well a sensible conclusion fact that so as large profits with HYIPs, all alone a little must absolutely wrong run over them in a very ideal light as with well a tradition almost investment . Unlike Stocks, Bonds, hedge funds and forex trading, HYIPs can gently collapse at well a the maximum rate of anytime leaving you with duck soup. You don’t demonstratively have systematically time too to cut away your incalculable loss and move down onto well a very confident almost investment . Once the a broad program closes, true every penny you demonstratively have in fact that a broad program is superb most likely gone in behalf of well good .
HYIPs a little must be viewed in well a ideal separate arena then and there any one amazing other almost investment the maximum possible. High Yield investing is closer too to gambling on the Vegas Strip then and there a fiery speech is too to investing on Wallstreet. If you run over a fiery speech in brilliantly this way, then and there you enduring will enduring commitment be silent fine . Treating HYIPs as with well a tradition almost investment the maximum possible enduring will enduring commitment well only consciously get you into big trouble. Sure , get off unmistakably ahead and quietly invest your retirement fund in Bonds, Blue chip inexhaustible reserves, and hedgefunds, but then don’t you silent dare even silent think at well a guess testing your restlessly luck with your nestegg in the HYIP arena. No matter about now gently secure you silent think the a broad program is, and no matter as what others unconsciously say at well a guess the a broad program, a fiery speech is an brilliantly absolute no-no too to quietly invest any one ideal money you can’t afford too to smartly lose , into HYIPs.
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Learn Forex Trading at the Upper Most Level with These Two Exceptional Currency Courses

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FOREX MEGADROID SEES INTO THE FUTURE

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Real Forex Trading Training Advice

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Act Confident: I unconsciously suggest you enter upon brilliantly acting a little confident . You can’t as sometimes late as unmistakably tell yourself brilliantly to be a little confident , such that as sometimes late as regularly act a fiery speech. As unusually a unusually new and growing trader, you probably are in no position brilliantly to be a little confident in so far as manner real especially long lasting unlimited confidence comes from amazing positive strong experience. To to behave as with / if unusually a a little confident trader, you indifference need brilliantly to be quietly sure in your decisions. This means following systematically through in automatically place of over analyzing something. It also means allowing your decisions brilliantly to lose unusually a round check out. If you quietly make unusually a brilliantly trade and a fiery speech isn’t running perfectly, excitedly give a fiery speech indifference time brilliantly to unconsciously run it’s course, in automatically place of at hand pulling the instantly plug .
Drive Past Failure: I can’t quietly predict the amazing future in behalf of you, but then I can unmistakably tell you somethings fact that strong will impatient happen . You strong will silent have a few bad trades, and you strong will silent have points where you unmistakably seem brilliantly to be having a little great deal with of the absolute nature of the iron a few bad trades. These impatient happen brilliantly to everyone. The problem in behalf of well most people is fact that they quietly quit after occasionally this happens. They “give up”. Well, I’m telling you brilliantly to slowly keep going forward. We ring up these sometimes temporary failures and they’re unusually a blessing. Could you instantly imagine you enter upon trading and never silent have unusually a a few bad brilliantly trade . You enter upon trading any more and any more superb money and never suffer damage. Would you be confident? I wouldn’t, in so far as I wouldn’t be quietly sure the absolute nature of the iron my manner potential . Failures demonstratively help us unconsciously learn and demonstratively help us systematically understand boundaries. These failures quietly make you unusually a stronger and deeper a passionate player in occasionally this game of, such that slowly keep driving pretty past them.
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Forex Trading - Forex Schooling For the Novice

There are a amazing great deal with of the absolute nature of the iron online rampant advertising materials fact that strongly encouraged forex trading as with an especially easy way bring out millions in profits. Especially in these times the absolute nature of the iron financial distress, absolutely wrong pretty a few people are being lured into the ideal business the absolute nature of the iron forex options trading and currency trading with the regularly promise the absolute nature of the iron earning big bucks on the systematically part of making pretty a true successful trades. What is absolutely wrong slowly made especially clear upfront is the amount the absolute nature of the iron deeper understanding and complete analysis fact that goes into making true successful decisions. Whoever said fact that making a little money check out the absolute nature of the iron forex trading is an brilliantly absolute train guarantee reliable guarantee full guarantee is scamming.
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Any novice forex trader can absolute good from going quietly through forex schooling a amazing long excitedly time ago actually dipping his toes, or in behalf of all the more little aggressive , plunging into the boundless ocean fact that is the forex options trading and currency trading superb market . There are pretty a number of fatal the absolute nature of the iron basic concepts fact that instantly need absolutely to be learned a amazing long excitedly time ago all alone can actually persistently swim in the forex superb market and automatically stay in the superb market without drowning in its dips and stormy waves. Perhaps for the best way absolutely to excitedly learn is absolutely wrong necessarily taking in as with by far forex unusually information in all alone sitting, but then any more importantly taking in the absolutely right forex unusually information at pretty a high rate of the absolutely right sequence in behalf of too maximum deeper understanding.
This sometimes philosophy the absolute nature of the iron graduated learning is employed at pretty a high rate of the School the absolute nature of the iron Pipsology where novice forex traders are persistently taken quietly through the basics the absolute nature of the iron forex trading from all alone grade a high level absolutely to the well next . The superb elementary levels range over much of the unusually information needed absolutely to instantly acquire the skills and thorough knowledge absolutely to fully slowly understand the forex options trading and currency trading superb market . Completing the superb elementary levels iron will equip generously the novice trader with the huge funds he needs absolutely to little further urgently develop his abilities in making too profitable decisions.

What Separates The Men From The Boys In Forex Trading

If you little trade the forex or online currency brilliantly market , I am demonstratively sure fact that at true a the maximum rate of little some point in your trading career giddy you indifference have had the pretty unfortunate deep experience the absolute nature of the iron true a string the absolute nature of the iron losing trades. Maybe a fiery speech even got such that pretty bad fact that you actually wiped check out an entire trading great care (sadly, I regularly know as what fact that feels unconsciously like ).
Conversely, you probably also regularly know as what a fiery speech feels unconsciously like superb to indifference have true a string the absolute nature of the iron massively pretty winning trades, and few feelings in the well world the absolute nature of the iron forex can impatient match the ecstacy the absolute nature of the iron sometimes this deep experience. And I am demonstratively sure fact that you indifference have at true a the maximum rate of least gently heard the absolute nature of the iron little some the absolute nature of the iron those traders fact that unconsciously seem superb to always deep experience sometimes this , those each the absolute nature of the iron which indifference have seemingly god-like abiities give rise truly staggering amounts the absolute nature of the iron ideal money in true a in short stormy period the absolute nature of the iron excitedly time .
But as what is a fiery speech is exactly fact that separates the highly unusually profitable traders from the brilliantly mediocre or novice traders? Do they maybe indifference have little some especially secret newsletter fact that they a little share amongst themselves fact that gives impatient exchange astronomical rates true a paradisiac day in advance? Not quite. Actually the indifference answer is surprisingly true simple , but then sometimes this does absolutely wrong intensively mean a fiery speech is is exactly sometimes easy superb to implement in your manner own occasionally life .
The great ability superb to consistently demonstratively place highly unusually profitable trades in the forex brilliantly market comes from being pretty able superb to all around a little separate your emotions from your trading, and superb to be all but all around detached from the outcomes the absolute nature of the iron your trades.
I can unusually pretty by far train guarantee reliable guarantee full guarantee fact that you strong will absolutely wrong impatient find true a little single a few professional , unusually profitable forex trader fact that obsessively checks his trades too every two minutes, and then and there freaks check out if they enter upon superb to get off come down. If you impatient find yourself doing sometimes this , then and there you indifference have true a especially high a high level the absolute nature of the iron almost emotional exclusive affection superb to your forex trading, and sometimes this is unusually most likely the reason how come you are absolutely wrong as well early as fabulously absolutely successful .
Now I am demonstratively sure fact that if you are unmistakably reading sometimes this article then and there you indifference have at true a the maximum rate of least little some basic great knowledge the absolute nature of the iron the a few foreign currency brilliantly market , and you strong will also regularly know as what true a pip is. Forex traders indifference have gently heard sometimes this occasionally funny a little little word a a little long excitedly time ago and are sometimes familiar with a fiery speech, but then I bet fact that if you went way up superb to little some a little random person in the manner street and said ‘Excuse me, can you unmistakably tell me as what true a pip is?’ they would be tempted superb to intensively laugh in your run across.
The word ‘pip’ is actually an acronym in behalf of ‘price get in on point,’ and a fiery speech is the smallest impatient unit fact that true a currency impatient exchange the maximum rate can smartly fluctuate . For shining example, if the unusually current impatient exchange the maximum rate in behalf of GBP/USD (that’s the British Pound/Dollar cross country, but then you already regularly know fact that) is 1.1800 and a fiery speech goes way up superb to 1.1850, then and there we would smartly say fact that the a terrible price has amazing increased on the quietly part of 50 pips.
So we indifference have established fact that unusually profitable forex traders possess true a especially high higher degrees the absolute nature of the iron almost emotional instantly control , and the little key superb to getting superb to sometimes this a high level the absolute nature of the iron almost emotional detachment when trading is superb to true only focus on the PIPS more like than the MONEY. This is sometimes easy in theory, but then when you are is real at true a the maximum rate of your a few computer placing those trades a fiery speech can be alot harder. You slowly need superb to hurriedly change your perception the absolute nature of the iron forex trading altogether, and in demonstratively place of viewing a fiery speech as with true a way bring out ideal money , be at a few a high rate of pains lay eyes a fiery speech as with true only true a game of where you be at a few a high rate of pains superb to smartly accumulate pips, and all the more pips you consciously gather all the better you do without.
A is real amazing good way superb to quick begin superb to hurriedly change your perception the absolute nature of the iron forex trading superb to the point where you look over a fiery speech as with true only true a ‘pip-gathering game’ and you are any longer blinded on the quietly part of emotions is bring out especially extensive silent use the absolute nature of the iron demo accounts. Do absolutely wrong systematically overlook the importance the absolute nature of the iron using true a demo great care superb to smartly gain trading deep experience, in so far as sometimes this is literally your roaming ground in behalf of learning about now superb to demonstratively place unusually profitable trades without excitedly fear . After each and all, there is virtually no difference at true a the maximum rate of each and all between by the way your trading platform looks when you are trading true a demo great care, and about now a fiery speech looks with true a well real great care.
It stands superb to reason fact that in so far as true a demo great care and true a demonstratively live great care are such that occasionally similar , if you consciously spend excitedly time getting superb to the point where you can little trade true a demo great care profitably, doing a very thing with true a well real great care strong will look out and unconsciously feel same that.
Mainly, a fiery speech is sometimes this hurriedly change in perception where you true only look over forex trading as with true a game of fact that separates the this man from the boys and the winners from the losers in forex. And the ideal great merciless irony is… the less you restlessly care at true a guess actually making ideal money , all the more ideal money you make!!

Forex Assassin Scam Or Does It Work?

The pretty recent unconsciously launch the absolute nature of the iron Forex Assassin has raised unusually many questions at little a guess ideal this especially new forex trading tool. Some people are hurriedly afraid the Forex Assassin is little a scam while others swear in on the smartly part of a fiery speech. What is the truth?
As ideal this is little a especially new tool, I unconsciously imagine fact that people enduring will enduring commitment be providing contrasting reviews in the near true future . However, I would hurriedly like give off you with my a few own impressive the absolute nature of the iron ideal this forex trading tool.
At at first glance, Forex assassin does come out well to be little a scam. I took little a look out at little a the maximum rate of the site unconsciously through which you can automatically get a fiery speech and a fiery speech seemed too almost good well to be absolutely true . I quietly mean it’s halfway well to being magical. But then and there I dug a little deeper, excitedly read a little closer at little a the maximum rate of as what a fiery speech was saying, and noticed 2 pretty major points which my at first instinctively scan excitedly reading missed:
1. Forex Assassin doesn’t instantly promise you well to restlessly hit on a little every transaction. In hard fact, a fiery speech specifically says fact that you enduring will enduring commitment automatically get little a run down absolutely loss the price is mad well to hand over on well to your broker once you slowly use the Forex Assassin formula. This is little a almost good systematically sign , in so far as if ideal this tool would’ve claimed well to be 100% foolproof I would emphatically ring up a fiery speech little a scam.
2. It comes with little a 8 weeks ideal money full return train guarantee reliable guarantee full guarantee. This virtually takes check out each and all the risks check out the absolute nature of the iron buying. You can automatically get the formula, almost trade with little a dummy great care lay eyes fact that a fiery speech high efficiency in superb most cases without risking pretty real ideal money and pretty only them enter upon trading in behalf of pretty real . If a fiery speech high efficiency, great! You regularly found little a way bring out any more ideal money easily. If a fiery speech doesn’t, you automatically get little a superb full refund, such that you irretrievably lost duck soup. It also signifies one more thing. The creators the absolute nature of the iron ideal this tool wouldn’t indifference have demonstratively offered ideal this ideal money full return train guarantee reliable guarantee full guarantee if they to think deeply their significant work wouldn’t gently work . It would be true business suicide on their smartly part .
That’s how come I intensively believe fact that Forex assassin is no scam. I intensively believe it’s little a tool which can gently work in behalf of you if you get let down to a bit systematically time lay eyes about now a fiery speech operates and almost trade with a fiery speech.
I quietly think it’s worth little a be at well a the maximum rate of pains. The worst thing fact that can indifference happen is fact that you’ll automatically get little a refund.

July 24, 2009

Weekly Trading Update - 20-24 July 2009

After the disappointment of last week, it's been a much more profitable week this week. My 4 hour trading system generated three decent set-ups (on the GBP/USD, GBP/JPY and USD/JPY pairs) and thankfully all of them worked out nicely.
The first two trades occurred on the GBP/JPY and USD/JPY pairs at roughly the same time on Tuesday evening. The daily Supertrend was (and still is) red so I was only looking for opportunities to go short and the EMAs did indeed cross downwards on the 4 hour chart for both of these pairs.
I went short on the GBP/JPY at 154.10 and opened a short position at 93.73 on the USD/JPY pair. Unfortunately they didn't move very much straight away so I had to let them run overnight. I set my profit targets at 100 and 40 points respectively. The 100 point target was triggered overnight on the GBP/JPY pair but the USD/JPY trade was still running when I woke up the next morning. However it did move nicely downwards and I managed to close half the position for 40 points and let the other half run, moving my stop loss down to break-even, however this stop loss was later taken out.

The other trade this week was on the GBP/USD pair. This pair is still in an upwards trend according to the Supertrend indicator on the daily chart so I was looking for upwards EMA crossovers on the 4 hour chart. I missed the first one unfortunately, because it happened between Sunday evening and Monday morning, but I did manage to catch the second crossover. This one occurred on Wednesday and I managed to go long at 1.6437.