Successful Trading – Online Share Trading & Stock Market Trader



Episode 1: Trading vs. Investing

The first in a series of short videos created to give you greater insight into what's involved in becoming a successful Stock Market trader.

 

Episode 2: Reasons for a Trading Plan

In this episode, we're going to look more deeply into the reasons WHY we need a robust Trading Strategy.

 

Episode 3: Elements of a Trading Plan

In this episode, we're going to look at the elements of an effective Trading Plan. But what IS a trading plan? It’s a set of RULES that is designed to govern your actions in any given circumstance in the market.

 

Episode 4: Entry Conditions

Your trading plan will have a set of entry conditions – criteria the stock needs to meet before you go spending your hard-earned money. We view these in 2 parts: Gates and Triggers.

 

Episode 5: Buying and Selling

In this episode we’ll look at Buying and Selling. Let’s imagine you’ve found a stock that meets all your entry conditions. We now need to take steps to open a position – we want buy some shares.

 

Episode 6: Risk Management / Trading Arithmetic

In this episode, we are going to look at Risk Management and then what I refer to as the Arithmetic of Trading.

 

Episode 7: Timing our Exits

In this episode, we’ll be looking at when to exit a trade when the price starts moving favourably.

 

Episode 8: Walking Through a Trade

Having covered all the major components of a Trading Plan, let’s now take a walk though the entire process, by following a trade from start to finish.

 

Episode 9: Testing our System

We now find ourselves at a point where we need to make a decision - which set of rules do we want to trade.

 

Episode 10: Short Selling & Contracts for Difference

In this episode we are going to look at some more advanced strategies: Short Selling, and Trading Contracts for Difference.

 

Episode 11: Further Trading Styles

In this episode I’ll be talking about some of the different styles of trading that our more advanced members use.

 

Episode 12: Finale

In this episode I'll talk about how we bring these additional elements together, and then we'll consider the subject of trading for income.