Safety in the Market Blog: Insights, Tips and Strategies for Traders
Most Traders Focus on Being Right – Professional Traders Focus on This Instead
Most traders believe success comes from being right more often. It sounds logical. If you’re right more frequently, you should make more money. But experienced traders understand that long-term success isn’t determined by how often you profit - it’s determined by how...
Understanding a Trading Chart (The Basics)
Before you place a trade, everything starts with the chart. The chart is where the market tells its story, and learning to read that story is one of the most important skills a trader can develop. Regardless of what market you’re trading - shares, CFDs, futures, or...
How to Get Started in Trading – A Beginners Roadmap
Are you ready to get started in trading? If you’ve ever thought about dipping your toes into trading the markets but felt overwhelmed by where to start, we’re here to help. With so many markets, strategies, and opinions out there, it’s easy to feel stuck before you...
Returning to Trading After a Break
Jumping back into the markets is never like riding a bike, the markets demand respect—especially after a long break. Like our elite athletes returning to competition. They don’t just show up and expect to perform at their best. They go through weeks of...
Understanding Support and Resistance
Support and Resistance are terms often used in discussion by market commentators and analysts, but what exactly does ‘Support’ and ‘Resistance’ in the markets mean? Understanding Support and Resistance is essential for understanding price trends and chart patterns....
Trading Your Lifestyle
Have you ever thought about who trades the markets? If so, what type of person do you think of? The answer is that traders come from all walks of life, from 9-5pm office workers, to tradies, to FIFO workers, to nightshift workers & people who work from home. They...
Looking Into The Futures
Safety in the Market students trade using a variety of instruments. One which many use is Futures, a concept that can cause some confusion for new traders. Futures is an agreement between two parties (the buyer and the seller), for a trade at a future date. Futures...
The Ten Characteristics of Successful Traders
We have all heard those wisely spoken words of advice – if you want to be successful at something, be sure to take heed of the advice and actions of those that have already proven themselves in your desired area of expertise. This makes a lot of sense. Many Safety in...
The Importance of Backtesting in Trading: A Key to Success
In the constantly changing world of trading, where decisions must often be made in seconds, having a well-tested strategy can be a game changer. One of the most valuable tools in a trader's toolkit is Backtesting. David Bowden, Founder of Safety in the Market, tells...
Taking More Control Over Your Trading and Your Life
Reprinted from the Summer 1995 Safety in the Market Ticker Tape In The Importance of Reframing, I talked about reframing the term ‘failure’ so that we regarded it as an opportunity for learning. We will take this concept a stage further now by adopting the viewpoint...