Day Trading Mind Traps 3.07.2018
Posted By:- Ilan Levy-Mayer Vice President, Cannon Trading Futures Blog
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Trading 102: Day Trading Mind traps
“One way our brain helps keep us safe is to protect us from an awareness of our weaknesses. The brain believes that it is better to be falsely confident than recognize the real risks. This protective mechanism tends to work against us in trading.” Kenneth Reid, Ph.D
MINDING THE MIND
The mind can play tricks on us. Intuitive Trading is an attempt to mind read the market, which makes us susceptible to whipsaws. Hindsight Bias causes traders to underestimate the difficulty of trading, while Competency Bias causes us to over-estimate our abilities. These are mental banana peels that set us up for a fall.
INTUITIVE TRADING
Intuitive trading is a natural response to excessive randomness and non-linearity in the market. But making informed guesses is not the same as formulating a rule-based pattern-recognition system that gives a trader a true edge. Without a rule-based plan, intuitive traders expend a great deal of energy mindreading the market, which will not improve your odds of success. In fact, professional traders make a good living exploiting the emotionally-driven behavior of intuitive amateurs.
Good Trading!
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Futures Trading Levels
3-07-2018
| Contract March 2018 | SP500 | Nasdaq100 | Dow Jones | Mini Russell | BitCoin Index |
| Resistance 3 | 2759.83 | 7007.75 | 25384 | 1595.37 | 12481.67 |
| Resistance 2 | 2747.17 | 6973.50 | 25215 | 1578.93 | 12068.33 |
| Resistance 1 | 2735.58 | 6940.25 | 25032 | 1568.77 | 11396.67 |
| Pivot | 2722.92 | 6906.00 | 24863 | 1552.33 | 10983.33 |
| Support 1 | 2711.33 | 6872.75 | 24680 | 1542.17 | 10311.67 |
| Support 2 | 2698.67 | 6838.50 | 24511 | 1525.73 | 9898.33 |
| Support 3 | 2687.08 | 6805.25 | 24328 | 1515.57 | 9226.67 |
| Contract | Apr. Gold | May Silver | Apr. Crude Oil | June Bonds | Mar. Euro |
| Resistance 3 | 1362.2 | 17.46 | 64.19 | 144 13/32 | 1.2545 |
| Resistance 2 | 1351.1 | 17.18 | 63.74 | 144 1/32 | 1.2487 |
| Resistance 1 | 1343.1 | 16.97 | 63.08 | 143 19/32 | 1.2452 |
| Pivot | 1332.0 | 16.69 | 62.63 | 143 7/32 | 1.2395 |
| Support 1 | 1324.0 | 16.49 | 61.97 | 142 25/32 | 1.2360 |
| Support 2 | 1312.9 | 16.21 | 61.52 | 142 13/32 | 1.2302 |
| Support 3 | 1304.9 | 16.00 | 60.86 | 141 31/32 | 1.2267 |
| Contract | May Corn | May Wheat | May Beans | May SoyMeal | Apr. Nat Gas |
| Resistance 3 | 392.3 | 523.9 | 1085.33 | 400.00 | 2.83 |
| Resistance 2 | 390.4 | 515.8 | 1081.42 | 397.20 | 2.79 |
| Resistance 1 | 389.3 | 511.4 | 1078.08 | 392.60 | 2.77 |
| Pivot | 387.4 | 503.3 | 1074.17 | 389.80 | 2.74 |
| Support 1 | 386.3 | 498.9 | 1070.8 | 385.2 | 2.7 |
| Support 2 | 384.4 | 490.8 | 1066.92 | 382.40 | 2.68 |
| Support 3 | 383.3 | 486.4 | 1063.58 | 377.80 | 2.66 |
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