Michael Covel has written an easy to read and understand book entitled “Trend Commandments: Trading for Exceptional Returns” FT Press, that condenses and explains the principles of successful trend followers. This book is based on the author’s extensive 15-year study of the world’s top trend following traders such as Ed Seykota, Paul Tudor Jones, the […]
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This post originally appeared in the Student Forum on www.NewTraderU.com. Thank you Salman for letting me share it with my blog readers. Guest Post by: Salman Merchant These are my two cents, and since I’m only a novice trader I can only speak from intuition: Since there are a great number of strategies and trade
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I am flat coming into today. No positions. — Steve Burns (@SJosephBurns) March 25, 2015 Monday and Tuesday warned me to exit my long positions with a failure to make higher highs and then Tuesday with a close below the previous days low of day. I went to cash on Tuesday. The bears put
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Much Ado About IPO Lockup Expirations: Data and Stats Why Courage is Key to Trading Success 6 Things That Separate The Pro From The Amateur Trader That You Can Change Right Now The 22 Rules of Trading of @gtotoy The History and Rationale of the Broadening Formation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83qFdyTgnds
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@SJosephBurns are you quoting from a woman's guide to one night stands again? — Northy (@NorthmanTrader) March 24, 2015 @zerohedge Fidelity's "contrarian" fund loves Apple, Facebook, and biotech. Someone give Danoff a copy of Merriam-Webster. — Mike A. (@ThePauper1) March 24, 2015 Eliminate emotion by setting a plan BEFORE u enter a trade. Plan
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The Psychology of Trading: Tools and Techniques for Minding the Markets Author Brett Steenbarger has done a great job with this book. He covers what I personally believe is the most important element in trading: psychology. New traders will probably not last through their first year in the markets without blowing up their accounts by
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The difference between traders that rely on their instincts and chart reading abilities and those who are pure system traders. Discretionary Traders… …trade information flow. …are trying to anticipate what the market will do. …are subjective; they read their own opinions and past experiences into the current market action. …trade what they want and have
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The Three Skills of Top Trading: Behavioral Systems Building, Pattern Recognition, and Mental State Management by Hank Pruden shows how traders must learn to combine three crucial skills in the markets to become a top trader. Pattern Recognition and Discretionary Trading The author uses the Wyckoff method to show chart representations of how hot stocks are
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Next resistance level is all time highs at $212.97 there is a high probablity we get there next week. The RSI is bullish and there is room to get back to all time highs without becoming over extended. $SPY had a bullish MACD crossover on Friday. All near term support lines held last week.
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Bridgewaters’ Ray Dalio Explains the Power of Not Knowing Markets are Dynamic and Your Trading Strategy Has to Be Too Why Endurance is the Key to Trading Success Four Simple Ways to Achieve Any Goals You Set
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Top Trading Tweets of the Week: 3/20/15 Stocks Open Sharply Higher On Increasing Macroeconomic Uncertainty, Unprecedented Geopolitical Risk — Downtown Josh Brown (@ReformedBroker) March 20, 2015 “Time of maximum pessimism is best time to buy, and time of maximum optimism is best time to sell.” John Templeton. pic.twitter.com/M1TTHG7A1A — Ed Matts (@EdMatts) March 15,
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Are You Diversified? Investopedia describes diversification as “A risk management technique that mixes a wide variety of investments within a portfolio” that “strives to smooth out unsystematic risk events” “so that the positive performance of some investments will neutralize the negative performance of others.” I personally think of it as the process of combining multiple
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I married the love of my life 3 years ago. While reflecting on the commitment I was about to make, I realized that my past mistakes in marriage reminded me of some of my trading missteps. Trading stocks and marriage are a lot alike. (I actually wrote this blog post originally the day before I
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Current support is the $204.50 that held Wednesday and Friday. It would not be a good risk/reward to short a break under the $204.50 price level as the RSI will be in the thirties if support is lost and in the oversold rally zone. $207 is our near term resistance. A break above this
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Reminiscences of Marty Zweig: What I Learned From a Market Great What is a Trader Contest: $1500 Prize, from Victor Niederhoffer The Greatest Psychological Mistake a Trader Can Make The Original Turtle Trading Rules Marty Schwartz and Mr Top Step Video
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Top Trading Tweets of the Week 3/13/15 Wall Street Firm Develops New High-Speed Algorithm Capable Of Performing Over 10,000 Ethical Violations Per Second http://t.co/L2DISRRkiB — Downtown Josh Brown (@ReformedBroker) March 13, 2015 Don't smoke. I did. Wish I never had. LLAP — Leonard Nimoy (@TheRealNimoy) January 11, 2015 CASH RULES EVERYTHING AROUND ME EXCEPT WHEN OTHER ASSETS PROVIDE HIGHER RISK ADJUSTED YIELDS CONTROLLING FOR LIQUIDITY PREFERENCES B — Wu-Tang Financial (@Wu_Tang_Finance) March 7,
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Social Media can be a lot of fun for traders but at times the fun and sharing is interrupted by rudeness, arrogance, or ignorance, or all of these things combined. Here are ten examples of common annoyances we likely will experience as we navigate the trading world that exists inside social media. You enter a
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Here are two types of buy signals that traders can use. Swing traders have difficulty understanding how momentum traders like assets at higher prices and momentum traders don’t want to buy something that is not moving straight in one direction. I hope this sheds some light on two different kinds of traders. Momentum Signals: This
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