This is a guest post from Tino @tradersreality. This article originally appeared on tradersreality.com and is reposted here with permission. Since my last post regarding Martial arts and trading, I have been consolidating my thoughts on ways to improve our mindset of when we trade. Let’s face it. Mastering any craft, has no destination. Pit stops maybe, but […]
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There are two different types of stop orders you can place with your broker to exit a trade when a specific price level is reached that triggers your stop loss on a position. Both of these types of orders are risk management tools that try to limit the losses if a stock or market moves
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Here are thirteen of Warren Buffett’s favorite things. Warren Buffett’s favorite investing book: “The book that had the most impact on my life was ‘The Intelligent Investor’ by Ben Graham.” he says. Warren Buffett’s favorite book: Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street by John Brooks Warren Buffett’s favorite index fund is the
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This is a Guest Post by Jake @TrendSpider. In this weekend’s analysis, we analyze the moves made by SPY, QQQ, and IWM over the last week and beyond. On Sunday, We have TrendSpider partner and avid user of the platform, “AlwaysRed” on to discuss his trading style and how he uses TrendSpider.
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Trader and author Nassim Nicholas Taleb created the black swan theory of events as a metaphor to name an event that happens far outside the normal distribution of deviations from the mean and looks like a fat tail outside a normal bell curve. The term comes from how people thought all swans were white until
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Private equity is specifically a kind of stock ownership in a company that is not publicly traded on a stock exchange. In recent times though it has been what people call private funds that use capital to takeover companies (many times through leveraged buyouts) with the goal to rebuild the company’s business model to create
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In his book “Fooled by Randomness” author N.N Taleb shows the dangers of seeing patterns where there is only random noise, the danger of confusing luck with skill, and believing things can be predicted with accuracy that are simply randomly occurring. Randomness can become especially dangerous in trading and investing in the financial markets as
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A put option contract gives the buyer of the contract the right to sell the underlying asset to the seller of the option at the strike price on the day of expiration. The put buyer has the right to ‘put’ the asset or sell the asset to the put option seller on the date of
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In finance and investing the correlation coefficient is used to calculate a statistical measurement of how strong movements in two markets are historically in relation to one each other. The correlation is expressed in a range of values between 1.0 and -1.0. All the readings of the formula are inside the 1.0 to -1.0 range.
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A chart pattern is simply a visual representation of the prices buyers and sellers bought and sold in the past. There is no magic in a chart pattern they just show you what happened in the past and what has a higher probability of happening in the future. A chart pattern can show that a
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