The Laws of the Trade

It all comes down to managing the risk of your trade, manipulating the law of averages in your favour. It’s a “simple” equation: profit comes from placing more winning trades while managing your losses, risk, and unsuccessful trades. There is no single way in becoming a successful trader, but a winning formula relies on core principles of patience and consistency. A systematic strategy is much more valuable than a spontaneous one.

It’s time to forget what you’ve heard about trading. Some of it is true; most of it is nonsense.

Is trading blind luck? No. Is there a degree of chance? Absolutely!

Will it solve your immediate financial struggles? Almost certainly not.

Can it deliver consistent financial gains over the long term? If you follow the model, it certainly can, yes.

Can you use complex but well-established systems to make calculated and profitable trades by yourself? That is why you’re here.

To become an effective trader, is not something that happens overnight. A good way to think about it, is in terms of starting a new habit. In just the same way that starting to get physically fit is hard to begin with, starting to learn good financial habits are difficult in the beginning. However, just as with eating well and exercising regularly, your long-term health—in this case your financial health—more or less depends on it.

You can think of The Trading Forest as your private college and personal tutor. We want to give you the very specific tools and education you require to make money by using fluctuations in the global financial markets to your advantage.

Global financial systems are ridiculously complicated. To the uninitiated, they are a chaotic forest of currencies, commodities, stocks and shares. It is bewildering and the chances of navigating it alone are almost zero. Yet, there are good, well-trodden paths to take. There are signs all around indicating which way to go; sights and sounds that, if you can read them, will guide you towards fruitful goals and away from unnecessary dangers. However, if you wish to walk these paths, you must leave your ego at the threshold. The market can be your source of information and your compass, but only if you learn to navigate it correctly.

Learning to trade is about evolving and improving your mind-set every day. Having a proper trading system can assist you in reaching your destination earlier and with greater success.

The Aim of The Trading Forest

Our goal is to educate traders – both inexperienced and seasoned professionals – to evolve with the market and learn how to make the market work for them.

Traders don’t want to spend 90% of the day searching for strategies only to spend the remaining 10% analysing the trades. Markets are dynamic and the process repeats itself.

Take time to understand the tools of the trade and how to implement strategies. This separates the successful trader from a struggling one.

By offering simple, sophisticated market insights and established educational signals, we offer our members the tools to develop their own successful trading strategies while:

Using our information while developing and sticking to a trading process is how you can get the edge.

The Simplicity

At the core of trading, you’re looking at two types of trades: Good trades and bad trades.

A good trade is one where you follow the process. It can be profitable or you can lose money, but the art of following the strategy and holding to your process is where you’ll either earn or you’ll learn.

A bad trade is one where you discard your process and emotion and impulse takes over. It’s rare that a bad trade, or the sum of bad trades, will be profitable.

Our approach lies in the simplicity of building a habit where a trading decision is made not by impulse or emotion, but rather by combining a series of sophisticated patterns.

The Sophistication

At The Trading Forest, we teach our members the process that will allow them to develop and transform along with the markets. Our proprietary systems, designed with sophisticated guidance signals, will provide you with short, medium, and long-term trading indicators that will assist in developing an edge in the market.

The markets are moved by a combination of factors. A trader can’t control markets or predict external events, but they can control their investment decisions and how they implement these decisions.

By moulding your strategy around these factors, your key aim should be to reduce the risk by alleviating ‘bad trading’ and controlling the odds by finding a methodology rooted in consistency.

Simplicity meets sophistication in a trade where you can make a decision based on facts and research in order to ‘skew’ the odds in your favour.

Think Different

Something about the world of trading has caught your imagination. Perhaps it is the promise of a passive income? Maybe it is the thought of being able to work just a few hours a day skimming the financial news, clicking a few buttons, and spending the rest of your time practising your hobbies and being with your kids? Whatever it is, keep it in mind. Let this be the light that guides you. The journey into trading is not an easy one, nor will it deliver you instant riches. However, the sooner you begin to learn the practical ways in which trading works and how to consistently skew the odds in your favour, the sooner you will start to enjoy the fruits of your labours over the medium-term and beyond.

Before venturing further into The Trading Forest, you should be aware of the following: your success as a trader will be directly proportional to your ability to manage your ego and emotions.

Life and trading both represent a journey. As in life, if you focus too much on the destination (i.e., the profit), you risk missing out on all lessons and experiences beckoning to you along the way. Traders often make the mistake of not fully understanding all the components and dynamics of the market, and being beguiled by an opportunity that seems too good to be true. It is therefore worth repeating: when you begin to trade, leave your ego at the door.

Trading requires a cool-headed trade-off between risk, return and timing, together with a generous dollop of calculated intuition.

As you will see, this is a game that involves both art and science. However, the art must animate the science; not the other way around.