Trading Education & Mindset Hub
- FinancialWisdom
- Dec 9, 2025
- 4 min read
Updated: Dec 18, 2025
Learn the Skills & Psychology Behind Successful Trading
Introduction:
Becoming a consistently profitable trader has far less to do with finding the “perfect strategy” and far more to do with your education, mindset, and decision-making under pressure. This hub collects all of your foundational learning material, from trading courses, psychological development, discipline, common mistakes, and the mental frameworks that separate beginners from long-term performers.
Whether you’re just starting your trading journey or refining your skillset, these guides will help you understand the why behind trading decisions, build confidence in your setups, and avoid the mental traps that cause most traders to fail. Each post includes embedded videos for visual learners and written explanations for clarity. Treat this hub as your go-to resource for building the mindset, structure, and habits needed to trade with consistency and calm.
Trading Mindset:
Mindset starts with expectation, having the right expection when you approach anything is important, but none more so than in trading stocks. If you enter the market expecting to make millions in a month off $1000 then your mindset is off from the start. This video provides some insight into the subject:
Full Blog Post here: Stock Trading Returns, Expectation & Psychology
Often unspoken about in trading is Survivorship bias - When I took part in the US Investing Championship it became evident to me that the many accounts with heavy losses, often blowing up, were left unreported, leaving a positive bias to all those that participated, in reality followers were fooled by the overall results reported (or should i say not reported). This promotes false expectation and is best explained in this video:
The right expectation also comes from the trading statistics themselves and Dr Tharp explains this well in his book Trade Your Way To Financial Freedom.
He explains how probabilities play an important part in not only positive expectancy but also trader psychology:
Full Blog Post here: Van Tharp - Trade Your Way To Financial Freedom
My FREE Trading Strategy E-Book here - Top Stock Trading Courses & Strategies - Financial Wisdom TV
Trading Discipline:
Closely aligned to having the right mindset, is Trading Discipline. Discipline can only be adopted if you have the right mindset throught the trading journey.
Mark Douglas author of Trading In The Zone discusses this in depth and we produced his and other authorities thoughts on the subject in this video:
Full Blog Post here: How To Trade With Discipline & Without Emotion
Poor discipline, mindset and expectation can also accompany common trading mistakes. This short video can save you many thousands of hours on your learning curve to trading profitability.
Full Blog Post here: 7 Things You Must Stop Doing to Become a Profitable Trader
Treat the above as a starting block to your trading journey, it is just that, a start. The next step is to merge your mindset with practial application of a trading strategy, and they come in many forms. My personal trading strategy born from over 30 years of experience and application can be seen below, but there are many others out there, I'll add some popular trading gurus further down.
Full Blog Post Here: Weekly Swing Trading: Earn 25%+ Returns with Minimal Time
Popular Trading Guru's:
One of my favourites in terms of strategy, one in which my strategy is built on and why our Stock Trading Screener was developed:
Full blog post here: Nicolas Darvas - Box Trading Method (Breakout Trading)
One of the most popular traders in the current era is Mark Minervini, much of his concept(s) originated from previous time tested traders of the past. We have completed a number of videos on his books:
Blog page here: Mark Minervini Trade & Think Like a Champion
Another perhaps even more relevant in this decade is Kristjan Qullamaggie, known for his huge declared equity gains, but once again born off others from the past, this is a great video for simple yet effective trading techniques.
Full blog post here: KRISTJAN QULLAMAGGIE - Multi Millionaire Stock Trader discloses his winning strategy
Another of my favourites is professional trader Stan Weinstein, a trader from the past who perfects the art of trading with the trend to improve success. A must watch.
Full blog post: STAN WEINSTEIN - Professional Trader.
The above is just a small compilaton of what we have available, see our video library of more than 150 videos and articles to help you become the best trader possible - Full blog here - Engaging Animated Videos for Finance Learning
Further resources:
The Ultimate Trading Guide – Complete Trading Guide for All Skill Levels
VWAP Indicator – Maximum Trading Gains Using Price, Time & Volume
MACD-V Indicator – Normalizing Momentum by Volatility
Trade Like a Casino – How to Trade Stocks Using Probability & Edge
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