A TRADER'S LIFE Nicholas Penrake

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, delvi...

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, delvi...

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...

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 ...

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 an...

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 an...