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Trading Psychology - Emotions and Day Trading

If you can hear your heart beating every time you make a trade, then you need to know about the psychological aspects of day trading. These articles discuss how emotions such as fear and greed can have a negative impact on your trading, and will help you overcome these natural emotions and become a better day trader.

Fear and Greed
Discussion of the emotions of fear and greed, and how they affect traders and day trading.

Increasing Targets
Discussion of target orders, with an explanation of why a trader would increase their target order, but why increasing your target would be a mistake.

Patience, Decisiveness, and Calmness
Discussion of the personality traits of patience, decisiveness, and calmness, and how they are necessary for successful day trading.

Why Markets Fall Quicker Than They Rise
Discussion of why markets tend to fall quicker than they rise, with an explanation of how the emotions of fear and greed cause this to happen.

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