TRADE211 - Trade Psychology

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Trade Psychology
TRADE212
School of Economics
File:Trade211.jpg
Course	TRADE
Complexity	2
Practical	No
Overview
Applying Psychological Warfare to Trading

Syllabus

(under construction)

Teaching Guide

Psychological Warfare (no, really)

Popular Methods

- parallel order sniping

-- one small-volume market order to bait snipers

-- primary high-volume market order to blitz

- mass volume orders

-- less work to unload volume

-- can discourage market entry until volume goes down

-- encourages sniping, though it really has little effect

-- you can drive the market to smaller margins

-- can be identified as a major marketer

- small volume orders

-- less conspicuous, may discourage sniping

-- not identified as a major marketer

-- more work over time

- coerced buyouts

-- works only when margin is very wide

-- cuts into your own profits, the bigger the bait the more it cuts out

-- may not bite

-- very fast sell if it works, SEP

- market cornering

-- requires a HUGE amount of capital

-- very high risk

-- chance of very high profits if successful

Hints, tips, and best practices

- it is difficult to single-handedly kill the market

-- but it can be done, if only temporarily

-- but there's not much point

- +/- 0.01 will maximize your profits

-- +/- 0.02 or 0.03 can give you a bit of leeway for accidents

- forced math farts

-- example: Sell Order for 10,000.01 may force someone to set for 10,000.02

- attempts to force out of market usually fail