Friday, July 11, 2008

Trading Environments: Good and Bad aspects of trading markets




It is important to know that markets environment isn't like other social environment in your every day life. To become successful in markets environment you require a very high degree of self-control and self-trust.

Do you know about 90 percent of people who start trading in the stock market lose money and most of them get out of the market in the first year?
Why does that happen? Many beginners underestimate the difficulty of trading and overestimate their ability.
It is important to know that markets environment isn't like other social environment in your every day life. To become successful in markets environment you require a very high degree of self-control and self-trust.
Trading environment is a completely free arena; there is no external structure to restrict it. In fact, you can't control or manipulated the market. Also, market has no control over you. You are responsible for results, you should know that you only can control yourself and you must learn to adapt yourself to the market environment.
Bad aspects of markets
As I mentioned many beginners underestimate the difficulty of trading and overestimate their ability as a beginner, also they have a lot of expectations. Therefore, most of them lose money and infect some degree of psychological damage upon themselves.
When those traders can't achieve to their expectations, a conflict created between their beliefs about how things should be and the actual conditions that don't match their beliefs. This conflict causes stress, fear, anxiety, confusion and so on.
Good aspects of markets
Market is an environment with perpetual motions; these motions offer traders the opportunity to profit from them. Market is such as an ocean, if you act very well, it wills rewards you very well.
Many jobs have unchangeable hourly wages or monthly salaries, your effort not rewarded and passing time makes money for you. But in the market there is no relationship between time and reward. You can make a lot of money in a short time depend to your effort and skills.
As I mentioned, to be come successful in the trading environment you require a very high degree of self-control and self-confidence. So you should always try and train to improve behavior and skills. Among this training you know yourself better. This experience helps you all over life.
Conclusion
Market's bad aspects:
people underestimate market
people have inflated expectations
People cause damage on themselves
Market's good aspects:
The high potential of the market
Reward isn't depend on time
Practical experiences for all life