How To Trade Volatile Markets Like A Pro – Ukraine War & More!

In episode 346 of the Desire To Trade Podcast, I am joined by Michael Toma to discuss how to trade markets like a pro when volatility is high. You'll get to see our thought process for entering trades in the Forex market when price moves quickly to start to get choppy & unpredictable.

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Topics Covered In This Episode

• [0:15] Introduction
• [0:55] Should you stay out of Volatile Markets?
• [2:38] How to determine what market you should trade
• [3:57] Should you pay attention to the news when trading?
• [5:50] What type of strategies work better for volatile markets
• [7:23] What is Michael Toma's preferred trading strategy
• [12:20] Should you close trades early in a Prop Firm evaluation?
• [15:07] Should you take prop firm evaluations to learn to trade?
• [18:03] How can you actually have great risk management as a trader

Community questions:

• [23:17] Q: Does Michael trade only Long or Short in volatile markets?
• [27:43] Q: Does Michael Toma Offer training?
• [30:16] Q: How do you remain objective while trading? What is your routine to maintain the mindset? and how much is mindset important for you after method and risk management?
• [34:29] Q: Out of interest's sake. Can you share your average win rate and reward to risk ratio? Its interesting know-how pros compare to me the average trader.
• [38:33] Q: Do you do position trading? What is your take on it?
• [40:07] Q: Do you use the 1min T.F combined with 5m & 15m or do you use Higher T.F's?
• [45:17] Q: You guys are living from trading… but I have fear what will gonna happen if this trading will not work out the same as now.. how to overcome that fear?
• [52:32] Q: What's your opinion on using futures as an indicator for trading individual stocks?
• [53:55] Q: What is the most important thing I need to know before getting into Trading as a career?
• [57:24] Q: Hi Ettien, my question is regarding Bollinger Bands reversal strategy. The markets are trending a lot currently. Have you been finding it hard to find trade opportunities? (Screenshare)
• [1:00:00] Q: I have been trading for about a year and a half now but I still struggle with consistency what can I do to improve my trading?
• [1:03:19] Where to find Michael Toma
• and much more

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How To Find Michael Toma?

• MichaelToma.org
• email: michael@michaeltoma.org/
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What is one thing you are going to implement after listening to this podcast episode? Leave a comment below, or join me in the Facebook group!