Traders Personal Trading Approach

SDC has over the years developed a highly successful Structured Trader Development programmes (typically 6 months) to enhance trader performance. The benefits include improving the trader’s stamina and resilience and includes the use of a risk tolerance psychometric which identifies the trader’s edge and improves their adaptability to changing markets.

The programme takes the trader through a Personal Trading Audit and identifies the following:

  • Where is the trader’s ‘edge’

    Their suitability to their asset class

    The PMs trading philosophy

    Their strategy/approach

    How they rate their trading performance

    How they rate their trading potential

    How they could be doing better

    Where they believe their strengths/weaknesses lie

    What their personal trading demons are

    How their successes have been achieved

    Why their failures have occurred

    How they deal with drawdowns

  • The programme encourages the trader to keep a ‘Continued Professional Development Journal’ and discusses how it can be used as a tool to aid continual professional trading success.

    It will identify the trader’s approach and philosophy to:

    Personal trading rules and guidelines for money management

    Guarding against ‘risk of ruin’

    Deciding on ‘Position Sizing and Timing’

    The benefits of an exit strategy to guard against adverse moves/situations

    Adjusting risk for shifts in market volatility