History and timeline of HFT High Frequency Trading

Some interesting trading stats to look at

The Flash Crash of 2015 when EUR/CHF caused brokers to go bankrupt overnight. The complete story in this infographic

9 good reasons on when NOT to trade

What you control during trading (and what you can't control)

Although the stats are slim, you can be in the 1%!

Once a trader sees that trading isn’t going to be the easy and it's not the fast way out, there are usually three things that happen:

• He quits
• He takes a riskier approach to trading (larger positions, more trades, gambling mentality)
• He starts system-hopping if he still believes that there must be a trading method out there that can generate those returns.

How do you avoid this?

You start with a solid system like Xard's Trading System and stick with it. Master it and don't mix and match any indicators. Follow the plan until the end.

Amateurs Vs Professional traders

Cardinal rules of trading :idea:

10 x Trading rules! A set of cards you can print out.

bilbao wrote: Tue May 23, 2017 5:20 am10 x trading rules

Those are pretty great rules. I wish I knew them when I was a newbie.