In a world of auto spread trading (auto-spreaders), systematic arbitrage and automated market making, nearly all markets are being traded against each other in one way or another. For discretionary traders, the sooner you can broaden your market perspective to consider the price action and order flow trading across asset classes (related markets) the better [...]

Mark Douglas in the renowned trading psychology book ‘Trading In The Zone’ treated a broad range of trading issues with a simple systematic trading exercise. In his Path to Consistency Workshop, he discusses the details of the systematic trading exercise and the purpose behind it. While trading psychology is like going down the rabbit hole [...]

  In this trading exercise, for just one or two trading session try and LOSE as many ticks as possible based on short term order flow and price swings (and not just crossing the inside market spread). You might surprise yourself and find that your win to loss ratio plateaus at some point. This will [...]

In this exercise you are going to build a position by averaging in. What this means is that you are getting long or short using multiple orders, and your average entry price may change with each fill. Averaging In Trading Drill Goal The game here is to build a 10 lot position in the market [...]

  In this exercise you aim to be always in the market. This is directly in contrast to the previous exercise, as you are going to need to have a directional bias at all times, and to best manage your position based on your bias. Trading Drill Goal Have a position in the market for [...]