Top 14 Quotes & Sayings by Alexander Elder

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an author Alexander Elder.

Last updated on December 25, 2024.

Alexander Elder is a professional trader and a teacher of traders. He is the author of The New Trading for a Living, considered a modern classic among traders. First published in 1993, this international best-seller has been translated into more than a dozen languages and is being used to educate traders around the world. His Come into My Trading Room: A Complete Guide to Trading was named a 2002 Barron's Book of the Year. His Entries & Exits: Visits to 16 Trading Rooms was named a 2007 SFO Magazine Book of the Year. His latest book is The New Sell & Sell Short: How to Take Profits, Cut Losses, and Benefit from Price Declines (2011).

Author | Born: 1950

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Every winner needs to master three essential components of trading; a sound individual psychology, a logical trading system and good money management. These essentials are like three legs of a stool – remove one and the stool will fall, together with the person who sits on it.

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To be a good trader, you need to trade with your eyes open, recognize real trends and turns, and not waste time or energy on regrets and wishful thinking.

Alexander Elder

When a beginner wins he feels brilliant and invincible Then he takes wild risk and loses everything.

Alexander Elder

The market does not know you exist. You can do nothing to influence it. You can only control your behavior.

Alexander Elder

Most private traders on a losing streak keep trying to trade their way out of a hole. A loser thinks a successful trade is just around the corner, and that his luck is about to turn. He keeps putting on more trades and increases his size, all the while digging himself a deeper hole in the ice. The sensible thing to do would be to reduce your trading size and then stop and review your system.

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Many traders ride an emotional roller coaster and miss the essential element of winning: the management of their emotions.

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Amateurs look for challenges; professionals look for easy trades. Losers get high from the action; the pros look for the best odds.

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Successful trading depends on the 3M`s - Mind, Method and Money. Beginners focus on analysis, but professionals operate in a three dimensional space. They are aware of trading psychology their own feelings and the mass psychology of the markets. Each trader needs to have a method for choosing specific stocks, options or futures as well as firm rules for pulling the trigger - deciding when to buy and sell. Money refers to how you manage your trading capital.

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Losers bring money into the market which is necessary for the prosperity of the trading industry.

Alexander Elder

The goal of a successful trader is to make the best trades. Money is secondary.

Alexander Elder

Beginners focus on analysis, but professionals operate in a three dimensional space. They are aware of trading psychology their own feelings and the mass psychology of the markets.

Alexander Elder

Remember, your goal is to trade well, not to trade often.

Alexander Elder

The markets are unforgiving, and emotional trading always results in losses.

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Traders lose because the game is hard, or out of ignorance, or lack of discipline or because of both.

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