This article is taken from the Trader's Journal magazine (November 2009 issue)
The author, Dr. Janice Dorn, is believed to be the only Ph.D. (Brain Anatomist), M.D. (Board-Certified Psychiatrist and Addiction Psychiatrist) and graduate of Coach University in the world who actively trades, writes commentary on the financial markets and manages a subscription-based website. Dr. Dorn has been trading the gold futures markets full time since 1993. She has written over 1500 articles on trader and investor psychology, and mentored over 600 traders and investors. She writes on all aspects of trading psychology on her website thetradingdoctor.com.
- Trading is the buying and selling of risk. Dr. Janice Dorn discusses the fact that the amount of risk to be assumed is the only real aspect of trading over which each of us has control and provides some questions that must be answered to trade.
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