A lot has been said about mindset when it comes to trading. Which rather suggests it’s easier said than done. We all know revenge trading is bad, patience is good. Panic is bad, composure is good. And so on. But how do we achieve and maintain a calm state of mind, so we trade at our best? On this episode I talk to a former trader, who for the last 18 years has been helping traders and other professionals get out of their own way and perform better in their chosen arena.   Here we go, delving into the mind with performance coach Stephen Desborough.  Support the show Please follow A T ..read more

A lot has been said about mindset when it comes to trading. Which rather suggests it’s easier said than done. We all know revenge trading is bad, patience is good. Panic is bad, composure is good. And so on. But how do we achieve and maintain a calm state of mind, so we trade at our best? On this episode I talk to a former trader, who for the last 18 years has been helping traders and other professionals get out of their own way and perform better in their chosen arena.   Here we go, delving into the mind with performance coach Stephen Desborough.  Support the show Please follow A T ..read more

I think most of us who have been trading even a year can agree that managing risk is more than half the battle when it comes to making consistent returns in the markets.  That was va clip from my conversation with veteran trader Ian Coleman. Ian mostly trades forex, occasionally the indices. In this episode we talk about the kinds of patterns and correlations he looks for. Why he prefers swing trading to intraday and his own quiet obsession with the markets. Check out the full episode on A Trader’s Life. I think you may find Ian’s wit and modesty quite charming. I know I did. Support the ..read more

So we’re all pretty familiar with terms like head and shoulders, double bottom and double top. But are you familiar with these more esoteric patterns like bearish butterfly and tapering wedge? My next guest Ian Coleman lives and breathes this stuff.  He often posts his marked up charts on Linkedin and I’ll often sit there studying them as if I were in a gallery before an arresting landscape. Ian’s been in the trading game for donkey’s years. The past 15 years, he’s been trading on his own and writing for FX Street.  Before I bring Ian on, if you’re enjoying the show, do please subscr ..read more

So you know about Ukraine, you know about Gaza, but did you know there’s an even bigger war raging in Africa? At least in terms of death toll. i'm referring to the war in the Congo. Even though millions have died and many thousands are still dying, it’s a conflict that's hardly reported.  My guest for this episode is a man who set out to make a film about what’s been going on, and in so doing put an assassin’s mark on his back.  Kim Yew, filmmaker and trader, talks to me about film and his absolutely extraordinary win rate trading with a proprietary fibonacci tool and a strategy he ..read more

So you know about Ukraine, you know about Gaza, but did you know there’s an even bigger war raging in Africa? At least in terms of death toll. i'm referring to the war in the Congo. Even though millions have died and many thousands are still dying, it’s a conflict that's hardly reported.  My guest for this episode is a man who set out to make a film about what’s been going on, and in so doing put an assassin’s mark on his back.  Kim Yew, filmmaker and trader, talks to me about film and his absolutely extraordinary win rate trading with a proprietary fibonacci tool and a strategy he ..read more

Shoot for the skies as a day trader or bypass leverage altogether and aim for a 10% return investing in stocks?  Writer and investor, Will Nutting, prefers the latter. For one thing, it gives him more time to travel around the world exploring investing possibilities of ten overlooked by the mainstream.  Will runs a successful fund, also Nuttstuff, a newsletter which he describes as ‘No nonsense, common sense, stock ideas and conclusions.’  Support the show Please follow A Trader's Life on Twitter. And if you're a trader with some stories you'd like to share and you'd like to ..read more

We can probably all agree trading has some bad connotations. Gambling and scam being the two words that readily spring to mind.  My next guest is first and foremost an entrepreneur in online education. He’s not in fact a trader. But he passionately hates gambling and wanted to introduce some fresh transparency and genuine education to the trading world.  So, a few years ago, Zack van Niekerk teamed up with a man who does trade and together they created The Trading Cafe and The Trading Academy.  If you haven’t yet managed to be consistently profitable in your trading, or you’re l ..read more

We can probably all agree trading has some bad connotations. Gambling and scam being the two words that readily spring to mind.  My next guest is first and foremost an entrepreneur in online education. He’s not in fact a trader. But he passionately hates gambling and wanted to introduce some fresh transparency and genuine education to the trading world. So, a few years ago, Zack van Niekerk teamed up with a man who does trade and together they created The Trading Cafe and The Trading Academy. If you haven’t yet managed to be consistently profitable in your trading, or you’re looking for ..read more

We can probably all agree trading has some bad connotations. Gambling and scam being the two words that readily spring to mind.  My next guest is first and foremost an entrepreneur in online education. He’s not in fact a trader. But he passionately hates gambling and wanted to introduce some fresh transparency and genuine education to the trading world. So, a few years ago, Zach van Niekerk teamed up with a man who does trade and together they created The Trading Cafe and The Trading Academy. If you haven’t yet managed to be consistently profitable in your trading, or you’re looking for ..read more