'Evergreen' topics and strategies in trading.

[Cryptomultiplier]

The word 'evergreen', just kept ringing a bell in my head as I listened to a nice music by one popular musical artist. Although he is still alive and I do not want to mention the name, I felt this is a song I would love to hear in my old age. It would surely remind me of the good times and well, it's a great song amongst others.

The word 'evergreen' still rung and I couldn't help but search for a correlation between music and trading as regarding the word. I instead found a difference but with same concept and definition of what 'evergreen' as a word stands to represent.

Evergreen could mean continually renewing and when related to music it could mean it would retain relevance or its popularity for a very long time. When related to trading, 'evergreen' could also mean the structure or capital. That is, the principles, concepts, strategies, that would always remain true and always effective across different market fronts, technologies and eras when speaking about the time factor. Even though the trading platforms and algorithms may have changed, human psychology and the mechanics of market operation would not change.

With that being said, I took the liberty to summarize some topics that would always be considered 'evergreen' in trading and investment and newbies in addition to struggling traders, should do well to note and study on them. These topics include;

A. The timeless principles and psychology of trading which talks about risk management in trading, trading psychology,  compounding, market cycles and margin of safety.

B The foundational strategy of trading and analysis of which talks about diversification and allocation of asset, fundamental analysis (FA), technical analysis (TA), setting clear goals, dollar cost averaging(DCA), and lastly,

C. The Evergreen trading strategies which covers lessons on trend following, momentum trading, value investing, breakout trading and arbitrage.

* Are there are any other topics in trading that qualifies to be called 'evergreen' and I didn't include it, you can feel free to include them.
* Your opinion on the term 'evergreen' as regards trading is welcomed, so please do share.


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[Gozie51]

Well these might be your own analysis of topics to look at in trading but it is relative because different people/traders have what they look out for in trading based on their own biase. Thus, there are so many useful topics online regards to how a trader can be better in his skill and strategy.

For me, I have identified that traders struggle with some of these factors below:

Greed: This is a major back bone breaker for traders. If you get greedy, you may likely regret it. Like you are using leverage that puts your account at risk.

Fear: Not able to take the needed decision when you see a profitable trading decision. You could take such decision when it is late and regret it. For example, you have a good order to be taken for buy early and because of fear, you enter late when buyers are already going off the market. So what do you think will happen? 

Emotion: Not having the right confidence to take up trade or exit which is a combination of greed and fear .

Trend: Very important because at all times it is better to be on the right trend. In futures market, they say both buyers and sellers are profitable but at what rate and risk. So to be on the right trend, gives you more confidence to successful trade.