Trading Lessons

Trading the Gap Up and Gap Down – Part…

Gaps are nothing but lack of trading during the market open caused by either by a day traders or professional institutional traders/investors. There is...
Rajandran R
1 min read

The Dunning-Kruger Effect: What Differentiates Novice and Expert Traders?

The confidence level exhibited by the unskilled trader who is new to the market is enormous in most of the cases and after...
Rajandran R
3 min read

Things You Need to Know About Six Sigma Events…

Unexpected events in financial markets is referred to as ‘Six sigma’ or ‘six standard deviation’. A huge fall or a sudden rise, which is...
Kalaivani Pandian
1 min read

7 Things a Trader Should Understand to Do Proper…

Backtesting is a process of Testing the trading conditions with respect to the past historical data, evaluating not only the profitability of the system...
Rajandran R
3 min read

Difference Between Sharpe Ratio and Sortino Ratio

Will an investor choose a mutual fund based on returns only? Absolutely a big NO. So portfolio’s performance should be associated with volatility,a major...
Kalaivani Pandian
2 min read

Which Asset Class Provides Maximum Profits and Minimum Risk…

Listed Stock options offer the greatest profit potential of any investment vehicle. Profits of 100 percent or more. Risk, on the other hand, is...
Lokesh Madan
17 min read

Do Cycles Exist in Financial Markets? Can We Trade…

All right, its time to tackle some important questions and controversies. Do cycles exist in financial markets? Even if they exist, can we trade...
Balaji
3 min read

Am I a Genius or a Fool?

For most people, it is not easy taking a loss and there is a strong tendency to "book profits" whenever you get profits. Unfortunately,...
Kamlesh Langote
50 sec read

There is No Correlation Between Intelligence and Trading

Many people assume that those who regularly make money in stock markets must be very clever. Or that you must be blessed with some...
Kamlesh Langote
1 min read

Using Discretionary trading for Profitable Advantage

As with every field in finance there is a large amount of misconception about discretionary trading, which is highly profitable and led some to...
Balaji
1 min read

Probability, Expected Returns and Time Averages

Whatever system you have, there will winning and loss making trades. Fact is, and this is important, is you can never know in which...
Kamlesh Langote
1 min read

Trading and Rubik’s Cube

We all must have come across this wonderful multicolored Rubik’s cube at some point of our life. Many of us must have enthusiastically tried...
Siju Thomas
1 min read