No matter how much a trader believes that they can predict the future, how strong their conviction is, or how much they believe, no individual trader or investor can control the outcome of a market move unless they have enough capital to move a market their self. Traders have the unique frustration that few other […]
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Backtesting is the process of applying a strategy of entry and exit signals to historical price data to see if the system would have made money in the past. Systems that create good risk/reward ratios with bigger winning trades than losers or a high winning percentage of trades with no big losses will backtest as
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“If you can’t measure it, you probably can’t manage it… Things you measure tend to improve.” – Ed Seykota Keeping a trading journal is like writing your own trading book about yourself. Writing a trading journal forces you to put your feelings, thoughts, mistakes, risk management parameters, and ego problems on paper. Writing helps
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This is a Guest Post by Dan Fitzpatrick of StockMarketMentor.com and OptionMarketMentor.com. I have a question for all SMM/OMM members: Are you taking control of your own trading development, or are you looking for the magic bullet, the Holy Grail, the secret sauce, the sure thing? Are you actually putting yourself on a path to
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If we want a perfect entry, we will never trade. If we want a perfect company, we will never invest. If we want a perfect person, we will never marry. If we want a perfect job, we will never be employed. Perfection is not the goal, success is. A big stumbling block for new traders
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In the past 25+ years of being active in the financial markets I have been a big reader. As many people will sit and watch television, play video games or be on the internet for hours I have done the same thing with books. I love learning new things and gaining life changing information to
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This is a Guest Post by Niclas Hummel, creator of the Risk Simulator and a trader living in Bangkok. “Trading is managing risk and being a trader is being a risk manager.” This simple statement implies two realities: There is always risk The only thing you can do is manage it So what can you do to be a
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This is a Guest Post by Jake @TrendSpider. In this weekend’s analysis, we take a look at the broad market ETF daily Raindrop Charts (TM) and weekly hollow candles into the last few days of July. To learn more about Raindrop charts and the platform in general, make sure to check out all of our User
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This is a Guest Post by Troy Bombardia of BullMarkets.co. Market outlook: Stocks’ next few months will be unlike the past few months It’s been 7 months since the stock market’s December 2018 bottom, and the S&P has rallied 28% since then. The rally is slowing down, and it is unreasonable to expect the next 7 months to
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This is a Video Guest Post by @AKFallable: In this video, we talk about the Tony Robbins conference our options trader Tyler went to. Tony Robbins is the master when it comes to trading and investing psychology. Watch More Of Our Videos: Check Out Our Analysis & Breakdowns of Billions Episodes Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0xXN3XH0zo&list=PLZWbVSavQFXTEwTLFrq4hwGiKJmcWHIQ3&index=1 Learn To
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This is a Guest Post by Dr. Arnout ter Schure on Twitter @intell_invest. What is the VIX/VXV ratio telling us about the state of the stock markets? The VIX:VXV ratio has been dropping from almost 1.05 in June to today’s low reading of 0.83. What does this ratio mean and why should we care? To answer the
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What is a price action trading strategy? When you abandon your own opinions and predictions and take a look at what the price action is telling you on the chart is when you go from guessing about the future to trading the present price action. Investors look at balance sheets to buy and sell based
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In trading most new traders underestimate the mental and emotional learning curve of pain and fear that could end up creating their poor trading results. They have a quick winning trade but they fear that the profit will disappear so they sell for a small gain and miss the big trend in their favor. When
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This is a Video Guest Post by AK Fallible YouTube Channel. In this video, Chris is going to explain what does success in the stock market look like? He’ll also be covering why having a backtested trading system will allow you to be a consistently profitable trader. Check out our free training on how to
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This is a Guest Post by Jake @TrendSpider. In this weekend’s analysis, we take a look at the broad market ETF daily Raindrop Charts (TM) and weekly hollow candles into the last full week of July. To learn more about Raindrop charts and the platform in general, make sure to check out all of our User
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This is a Guest Post by Troy Bombardia of BullMarkets.co. Market outlook: What you really need to know about the stock market. If you read financial news & market analysis from pundits every day, it’s easy to be overwhelmed by countless charts, data, indicators, opinions, etc. In this post, I’m going to focus on what I think really
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This is a Video Guest Post by @AKFallible. In this video, we’re going to talk about why the Federal Reserve (FED) thinks a stock market crash is coming. We’ll also cover why they’re changing the tools they use to make economic decisions. Watch More Of Our Videos: Check Out Our Analysis & Breakdowns of Billions
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This is a Video Guest Post by AK of Fallible. In this video, I’m going to introduce to you my friend Chris D. who is a professional systems trader. Check out our free training on how to use a systems checklist to become consistently profitable in the market: https://macro-ops.com/systems-checklist-training-yt/ Watch More Of Our Videos: Check Out
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The hardest thing about trading is not the math, the method, or the stock picking. It is dealing with the emotions that arise with trading itself along with the ego’s need to be right. From the stress of entering a trade, to the fear of losing the open paper profits that you are holding in
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When I started out actively trading and investing in the stock market I greatly underestimated the learning curve. I my early years in the stock market in the 1990’s I was very lucky as my main focus was buying into tech companies and letting my winners run in the uptrend. This simple strategy gave me
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