Tag Archives: Trading Edge

Trading Psychology: Use Our Acclaimed Software Platform to Gain Confidence

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Trading Psychology is More Important Than Your System

The personal attitude (trading psychology in our parlance) required to succeed in pair trading is the same attitude required to succeed in any other style of trading or anything else in life for that matter. Every trading system or style will have drawdowns and soft patches, that’s the nature of the trading beast. There is not one trading system we are aware of that will produce profit, day in day out all the time (except Virtu’s ultra-high-frequency algorithms co-located at exchanges at the time of their IPO).

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Find Your Trading Edge: It’s a State of Mind, a System and a Marathon…

Financial Freedom through trading edge

Find Your Trading Edge…

Here at PairTrade Finder® we aim to trade stock, ETF and FX pairs with high cointegration, correlation and historic win rate.  Why?  Because even though a lot of these trades will fail, if you are persistent and disciplined, in the end the edge is with you.

What is “edge”?  You hear traders talk about it all the time.  Here’s an interesting definition from Investopedia’s Alan Farley:

A trading edge is a technique, observation or approach that creates a cash advantage over other market players. It doesn’t have to be elaborate to fulfill its purpose;

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