“There is nothing more important than your emotional balance.” – Jesse Livermore While taking losses is always uncomfortable, Taking them based on a predetermined exit strategy takes away some of the mental pain. Cutting losses when you know you are wrong also limits the size and extent of the loss and the severe pain of […]
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I am long Apple and Google going into Monday morning via in the money weekly options. I will not be one of those people fighting this tape. We are in an up trend, this is a bull market. Prices are going up not down, yes we could reverse, but we
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There is a big difference between bad traders and good traders, here is what I think separates one from the other: Bad traders continually have the desire to short the hottest stocks with the strongest momentum. What is their reasoning? “It can’t go any higher, this price is ridiculous.” Do
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On this Labor Day when many are off work for a paid holiday I am working, looking at charts, planning, thinking and reading. Pondering what Tuesday trading may bring. Trading is NOT the path to easy money nor free money. Trading is work and a profession like any other, traders
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Discretionary Traders Vs Systematic Traders In the classic Star Trek movies and television show Captain Kirk believed in his abilities to make the best decisions in the circumstances he found himself in. Mr. Spock contrasted against Kirk’s leadership style by using logic and reason along with probabilities of success to make the best
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Fish see the bait, but not the hook; men see the profit, but not the peril. Chinese proverb. Stock options are not lottery tickets, chips in a casino, or a path to easy street. They are tools for the transference of risk from one person to the other. When trading options you must understand where
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This interview with master trader Chris Kacher first appeared in Your Trading Edge magazine. Like his colleague Gil Morales, Chris is a protégé of William O’Neil, the legendary investor and author of ‘How to Make Money in Stocks’. Along with Morales, Chris is one of the few to have traded O’Neil’s own funds as an
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I believe a surprisingly dangerous way to play options are to sell covered calls. This may sound strange to most option traders as it is the most safe convenient ways to use options for long term holdings. Many Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) will even allow participants to write covered calls on their stock holdings.
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If one of the greatest traders in history told you how to buy and sell the best stocks for the most profits would you listen? Well we have a chance to do just that with William J. O’Neil’s book “How to Make Money in Stocks”. His lifetime of research on the precise fundamental and
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Their is one huge difference between the winners and the losers in the market. New traders tend to go ‘all in’ on trades they are just sure will be winners. If a new trader wants to be around long enough to be a rich trader they better manage their risk per trade. Here is a
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