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	<title>Confessions of a Forex Trader &#187; Psychology</title>
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		<title>There are two types of traders&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.straightforex.com/forex_blog/2011/08/26/there-are-two-types-of-traders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 19:27:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raul Lopez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet You can classify traders by the timeframe they use to trade (swing traders, long term traders, scalpers, etc), by the way they trade (using indicators, chart patterns, price action, etc.) But there is a much better way to classify traders, the one I like the most: Disciplined and un-disciplined traders Read the complete article, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why is trading difficult?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 23:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raul Lopez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet Hello Everyone, Why do you think trading is dficult? I think there are a number of reasons, but I think the most important one is that it is different than other endeavors. If you approach your trading in the same way you approach other areas of life, you&#8217;ll find yourself in a very difficult [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Discipline paid off</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 18:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raul Lopez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet What a month, March was a very difficult one, since the beginning of the month I started with the left foot with a couple of loosing trades, I was in red all the way from the beginning of the month to yesterday Of course I felt that I needed to do something, a quick [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nothing worth trading today</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 21:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raul Lopez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet I spent the whole morning figuring out which currency pairs to trade, looking here and there, but nothing caught my attention. For some reason I didn’t like any currency pair, not because of the same reason, some of them are trading at an important level, some others are trading in an undefined range, etc. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Unexpected Event</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:11:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raul Lopez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet Yesterday I was talking to an old trading pal about the impact of the Aussie unemployment report (real good numbers by the way, jobs gained were +35.2K and the market expected 10.2K and the unemployment rate was 5.5% against 5.8%). Anyway, he traded that report, just a few seconds before the announcement he went [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trading and emotions</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raul Lopez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet Fear and greed are the emotions that have the most impact on traders and investors, they make us make irrational trading decisions, Can we get rid of them? I don’t think so, they are part of the human nature. Think about this: why dot you jump into a lion’s cage? Because you are afraid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A few thoughts about forecasts…</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raul Lopez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet I’ve always wondered what’s behind this human need of knowing the future. We see this in all areas of life, but in trading, I think it causes most of us a great deal of damage, specially in our trading accounts. Is it even possible to forecast a major pair? Alan Greenspan doesn’t think so [...]]]></description>
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