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A Trader's Notepad is my published, 10 module, step by step notepad on how I learned to trade.  

It's freecovering the analysis of financial charts - commonly called "Technical Analysis". Technical Analysis is used by Day Traders, Swing Traders, Position Traders & Investors alike & forms the foundation for trading stocks, commodities, Forex, ETF's and Security Bonds amongst others. This notepad forms the basis of my learning over the years and looks at the steps required to create trading & investment strategies using charts, indicators, tools, market psychology, price action & money management - all technical analysis tools. These notes may not suit everybody, so seek professional advice is in doubt.

Why Us?

We're Free :) If you want to splash out thousands then feel free - there are plenty that will take your hard earned cash. At ATradersNotepad.com we started by looking at our notes from OUR learning over the years and thought, why don't we publish them? We Did :-) Our goal? To build a learning community and learn together, so if you have an article you'd like shared then let us know. 

Following our modules is a key ingredient in understanding trading and investing. Our approach is simple:

  • Follow our Modules
  • Research Trading Strategies
  • Find your own Trading Style
  • Test your System
  • Take the Next Step and Trade

The financial markets are a serious business, learning to respect them as you would respect any other business will allow you to manage risk and realise profits . Treat Trading like a business and you're half way there. But remember, it's your decision to trade and many people lose money trading. Good luck

Trading decisions generally fall into 2 broad camps - Fundamental Analysis and Technical Analysis.  Whereas fundamental analysis
looks at characteristics of a company to value it, technical analysis focuses on technical indicators to predict the future value.  These technical indicators measure supply and demand in the market and try to predict the future price move.  It doesn't care about the "value" of a market, but instead studies the psychology and sentiment of the market, via these indicators.  Technical analysis does not result in absolute predictions, but can help investors anticipate what is "likely" to happen to prices over time.

The Notepad will focus on technical analysis for making trading decisions, but it will also delve into fundamental analysis and look at why economic releases are important when forming trading decisions.  The final module will finish things off, looking at different types of trading, from day trading to longer term investing and how to pull it all together by developing a Trading Plan and forming successful trading strategies.

The best way to use the Notepad is to follow the modules in numerical order, building your trading knowledge from the bottom up.  In time you'll learn the fundamentals of TA, allowing better insight into Investing and Trading. Technical Analysis is a broad topic and this resource certainly doesn't touch on all it has to offer. More advanced concepts can be learned further down the line.

A Trader's Notepad is a Free trading resource, supported by advertising, so please help us by spreading the word in any way you can and clicking on a few adds :-), liking us on Facebook etc...  We are continually editing and adding to our site, so if you have any suggestions, articles or resources that you may think are helpful, please get in touch.

Thanks...

more...




How to Use our Notepad & Learn to Trade

Trading is risky and a large proportion of people who try trading lose money. This Notepad is a general framework on the concepts used by professional technical traders. The best way to use the Notepad is to follow the modules in numerical order, building your trading knowledge from the bottom up.  Our pages are not the gospel, but using them may help you learn the fundamentals of TA. We hope this allows better insight into Investing and Trading, using the ideas that can be found inside this site to form your own trading strategy.

We will try not to butter things up.  We'll strive to show that trading isn't about making a Million Smackeroonies in a few short months, but more about making incremental wins over time whilst managing risk.




DISCLAIMER

Trading is risky and a large proportion of people who try trading lose money. This Notepad is not designed as a place for recommendations, advice or how you should trade. It is general trading education which can be found in many books on technical analysis - it's a general framework that I have built up and recorded over the years through my learning. It is up to traders to come up with their own strategies and decide what works best for them and to seek advice from a registered financial adviser which I am not.


Don't trade with money you can't afford to lose. This is neither a solicitation nor an offer to Buy/Sell financial securities. No representation is being made that any account will or is likely to achieve profits or losses similar to those discussed on this web site. The past performance of any trading system or methodology is not necessarily indicative of future results. 


All information on this website or any ebook or video purchased from this website is for educational purposes only and is not intended to provide financial advice. Any statement about profits or income, expressed or implied, does not represent a guarantee. Your actual trading may result in losses as no trading system is guaranteed. You accept full responsibilities for your actions, trades, profit or loss, and agree to hold this web site and those who contribute to it harmless in any and all ways. 



Why do most Traders Lose Money? 

Ermm, many factors I s'pose. TBH there's a lack of education, aptitude, skills, experience, they're probably under capitalized and in the main they're not prepared to accept loses; so give up before they've started....In addition, they're often guilty of simply visiting forums, asking everyone around how to trade and then throwing money down the drain on systems that they know little about. Clearly you can't learn to fly jets by watching "Top Gun". It's the same with trading. Watching a couple of YouTube Vids won't cut the mustard! What is needed is education, guidance and time, otherwise the odds are in favour of failure and loss of capital. 

My last words. TAKE A YEAR OUT, LEARN, TEST & PAPER TRADE BEFORE YOU LET YOURSELF LOOSE ON A LEVERAGED ACCOUNT!!!!!

AND BEWARE! PAPER TRADING IS NOTHING LIKE TRADING WITH REAL MONEY! It can give you a head start, but there's much more to do with your psyche when playing with real money.

PLEASE READ THE DISCLAIMER BELOW...



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A Trader's Notepad is my published, 10 module, step by step notepad on how I learned to trade.  

It's freecovering the analysis of financial charts - commonly called "Technical Analysis". Technical Analysis is used by Day Traders, Swing Traders, Position Traders & Investors alike & forms the foundation for trading stocks, commodities, Forex, ETF's and Security Bonds amongst others. This notepad forms the basis of my learning over the years and looks at the steps required to create trading & investment strategies using charts, indicators, tools, market psychology, price action & money management - all technical analysis tools. These notes may not suit everybody, so seek professional advice is in doubt.

Why Us?

We're Free :) If you want to splash out thousands then feel free - there are plenty that will take your hard earned cash. At ATradersNotepad.com we started by looking at our notes from OUR learning over the years and thought, why don't we publish them? We Did :-) Our goal? To build a learning community and learn together, so if you have an article you'd like shared then let us know. 

Following our modules is a key ingredient in understanding trading and investing. Our approach is simple:

  • Follow our Modules
  • Research Trading Strategies
  • Find your own Trading Style
  • Test your System
  • Take the Next Step and Trade

The financial markets are a serious business, learning to respect them as you would respect any other business will allow you to manage risk and realise profits . Treat Trading like a business and you're half way there. But remember, it's your decision to trade and many people lose money trading. Good luck

Trading decisions generally fall into 2 broad camps - Fundamental Analysis and Technical Analysis.  Whereas fundamental analysis
looks at characteristics of a company to value it, technical analysis focuses on technical indicators to predict the future value.  These technical indicators measure supply and demand in the market and try to predict the future price move.  It doesn't care about the "value" of a market, but instead studies the psychology and sentiment of the market, via these indicators.  Technical analysis does not result in absolute predictions, but can help investors anticipate what is "likely" to happen to prices over time.

The Notepad will focus on technical analysis for making trading decisions, but it will also delve into fundamental analysis and look at why economic releases are important when forming trading decisions.  The final module will finish things off, looking at different types of trading, from day trading to longer term investing and how to pull it all together by developing a Trading Plan and forming successful trading strategies.

The best way to use the Notepad is to follow the modules in numerical order, building your trading knowledge from the bottom up.  In time you'll learn the fundamentals of TA, allowing better insight into Investing and Trading. Technical Analysis is a broad topic and this resource certainly doesn't touch on all it has to offer. More advanced concepts can be learned further down the line.

A Trader's Notepad is a Free trading resource, supported by advertising, so please help us by spreading the word in any way you can and clicking on a few adds :-), liking us on Facebook etc...  We are continually editing and adding to our site, so if you have any suggestions, articles or resources that you may think are helpful, please get in touch.

Thanks...

more...




How to Use our Notepad & Learn to Trade

Trading is risky and a large proportion of people who try trading lose money. This Notepad is a general framework on the concepts used by professional technical traders. The best way to use the Notepad is to follow the modules in numerical order, building your trading knowledge from the bottom up.  Our pages are not the gospel, but using them may help you learn the fundamentals of TA. We hope this allows better insight into Investing and Trading, using the ideas that can be found inside this site to form your own trading strategy.

We will try not to butter things up.  We'll strive to show that trading isn't about making a Million Smackeroonies in a few short months, but more about making incremental wins over time whilst managing risk.




DISCLAIMER

Trading is risky and a large proportion of people who try trading lose money. This Notepad is not designed as a place for recommendations, advice or how you should trade. It is general trading education which can be found in many books on technical analysis - it's a general framework that I have built up and recorded over the years through my learning. It is up to traders to come up with their own strategies and decide what works best for them and to seek advice from a registered financial adviser which I am not.


Don't trade with money you can't afford to lose. This is neither a solicitation nor an offer to Buy/Sell financial securities. No representation is being made that any account will or is likely to achieve profits or losses similar to those discussed on this web site. The past performance of any trading system or methodology is not necessarily indicative of future results. 


All information on this website or any ebook or video purchased from this website is for educational purposes only and is not intended to provide financial advice. Any statement about profits or income, expressed or implied, does not represent a guarantee. Your actual trading may result in losses as no trading system is guaranteed. You accept full responsibilities for your actions, trades, profit or loss, and agree to hold this web site and those who contribute to it harmless in any and all ways. 



Why do most Traders Lose Money? 

Ermm, many factors I s'pose. TBH there's a lack of education, aptitude, skills, experience, they're probably under capitalized and in the main they're not prepared to accept loses; so give up before they've started....In addition, they're often guilty of simply visiting forums, asking everyone around how to trade and then throwing money down the drain on systems that they know little about. Clearly you can't learn to fly jets by watching "Top Gun". It's the same with trading. Watching a couple of YouTube Vids won't cut the mustard! What is needed is education, guidance and time, otherwise the odds are in favour of failure and loss of capital. 

My last words. TAKE A YEAR OUT, LEARN, TEST & PAPER TRADE BEFORE YOU LET YOURSELF LOOSE ON A LEVERAGED ACCOUNT!!!!!

AND BEWARE! PAPER TRADING IS NOTHING LIKE TRADING WITH REAL MONEY! It can give you a head start, but there's much more to do with your psyche when playing with real money.

PLEASE READ THE DISCLAIMER BELOW...



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