What is a Technical Trader?
If you have some experience in trading currencies, but not much, you probably are a technical trader.
This is a good place to be. You are not quite there yet (your profits are not as big as you would like), but you are well on your way to become a successful trader.
Let’s see what you are doing right now:
You know that intuition and hot tips alone do not make you money and you use indicators to tell you when it is the right time to buy and to sell. So, you study all you can about indicators, like charts, trends, ratios, volatility, etc.
This is very good! All those indicators will definitely help you make money. They are very useful tools and you should learn all about them, as long as you do not try to use them to predict the markets
One big mistake many traders make is to use methods like Elliott Wave and Fibonacci to predict how the market is going to behave. They will find that, no matter how accurate they feel their prediction is, they still lose more money than they would like.
Can you relate? There is nothing wrong in losing money (actually you have to feel comfortable losing money, but this is a subject for another article) and certainly there is nothing wrong in using indicators to help you make trading decisions. Actually, you have to be very good at using different types of indicators before doing any trading. But there is one important thing to keep in mind here: markets cannot be predicted, they can only be traded. Big difference.
The technical aspects of the trade are necessary steps on the way to success. As I said before, you have to be good at them. Just remember: all those indicators and methods are tools to be used in a trading strategy, not by themselves.
If you are on this stage, congratulations! You are half way there. You know what is important and what should be discarded when you make trading decisions.
What is next for you is your ultimate goal as a trader: the peace of mind and the profits only pros can have.
A smoother road compared to the beginning, don’t you think?
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