Preparations Before Trading


Trading session opening time. Schedule

Trading session opening time. Schedule

Trading sessions are periods of time when trades can be executed on the exchange. We wrote in the article about the exchange organizational structure that trading on the New York Stock Exchange is opened with the Opening Bell. So, a time period from the opening bell to the closing bell is a trading session. If […]

Diversification. How to diversify risks and

Diversification. How to diversify risks and portfolio

In this small article we will explain to you: What diversification is? Why it could be ‘naive’? How to protect your investment portfolio against risks with the help of diversification?

Three worst periods of time for trading

Everyone wants to know at what price it makes sense to buy or sell one or another financial instrument whether it is a currency pair in the Forex market, a futures contract on a commodity exchange or stocks in the stock market. The truth is that the trading is both understanding the moments when you […]

What prop trading is. Interviews with prop traders

What prop trading is. Interviews with prop traders

Prop trading, prop traders and prop trading companies in Russia – what are they and how do they work? In this article we will acquaint you with the prop trading concept. There are quite a lot of traders who make profit with 6 or 7 zeros a year started to trade in prop trading companies. […]

How do ‘good’ orders become ‘bad’ orders

How do ‘good’ orders become ‘bad’ orders?

Elaboration of understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of the orders used by a trader in trading in the financial markets is an extremely important step on the way to success. Otherwise, a trader will bear losses even in, at first sight, simple situations. For example, he can forget to control the relevance of the […]

Strengthening discipline in trading. 10 rules

Strengthening discipline in trading. 10 rules

Do you know that the Best Private Investor of 2017 and at the same time Best Private Investor in the stock market was the trader under the DISCIPLINE nickname, who showed 204.3% of profitability (RUB 510,753.13 in absolute numbers)? Perhaps, he chose this nickname not by chance. Today we will speak about the importance of […]

10 secrets of successful traders. Part 1.

10 secrets of successful traders. Part 1.

We have covered quite a number of trading topics in our blog for the past several years. These were the articles of a wide spectrum encompassing both the advanced Footprint chart of the ATAS platform and exchange trading in general, and trading psychology and even the cryptocurrency market, which gains popularity. While preparing our articles, we […]

10 secrets of successful traders. Part 2.

Dear Friends! Today we continue our story about secrets of successful traders, which we started in the first part of the article. When coming to the Forex, futures or stock market, beginner traders focus on the search for an efficient trading strategy and development of skills of its application. This is quite natural. However, are […]

How to read brokerage statements

Reading brokerage statements is, surely, not one of the most entertaining activities, but it is important for the sound capital management. If you do not read or do not understand brokerage statements, which you receive by email in the end of the day, you might leave unnoticed dangers that threaten your portfolio, mistakes or even […]

Почему стоит вести дневник трейдера

Why it is worth to keep a diary

A successful trader Douglas E. Zalesky was a member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) for more than 20 years and successfully traded stock indices and bond futures. According to Douglass, 90% of a trader’s success depends on the discipline.