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What goes through your mind is reflected in your body. Have you noticed that those who continually worry and stress about their problems tend to develop tense muscles, get tired quickly or suffer from headaches and migraines?

In Jack Schwager’s famous interviews of the ‘Market Wizards’ he compiled a list of the ten criteria that are present in all successful traders. Amongst that list was one which I believe to be the most glaringly difficult to master, that of patience. Sinan Koray and his excellent pieces on trading psychology will be the most expert individual to help you come to terms with and master the art of waiting, however, there are some very simple technical indicators that you can employ to decide whether or not now is a good time to be trading a given share, index or future.

There is near unanimous consensus amongst all in the investment community that stocks are currently very cheap. Having said that, there is little agreement on whether or not now is the time to get back into the market; sure, stocks are cheap, but will they get cheaper still? And that’s the 64 million dollar question: when is the right time to position ourselves for a recovery?