On this thanksgiving day let us be thankful for what we have as traders. Most of the world lives in poverty with out the opportunities we enjoy in capitalist markets. Let us count our blessings. We live in a country where we can trade. Entrepreneurs have created stocks and markets for us to trade. We […]
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There is really only one reason to trade: to make money. Unfortunately many traders get off track. Your trading should be ran the same way you would run a business. You are trading to make money, no other reason. Your trading should resemble being in an auction for profit or a market place of goods.
If you can’t take the heat get out of the kitchen. This familiar saying applies to trading. While you are reading about trading in books and online you will feel a sense of confidence grow. You will study charts and they will look so obvious, of course, there is the support, the resistance, and
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Traders love to feel like they are a genius after a winning trade. Unfortunately, you did not win because you were so clever, you won because the market let you. Trend traders are not geniuses when they are up 10% in a month when the market was down 10%. The market was simply conducive to
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To tough it out in a marriage when things get difficult it takes faith in your spouse. It takes faith to stick with a career when at the beginning it seems like you are not being paid fairly for all your hard work, but you believe that one day your efforts will be rewarded with
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What wins championships in football? It is said to be a great defense is the main component of a championship football team. In football you win by scoring more points than the opposing team, this is much easier on the offensive side of the ball for a team if the defense keeps the score low.
Trading is all a manner of taking a position because you believe the odds are on your side and that it will move in your favor and you will make money. That is what the stock market is all about whether you are a value investor, swing trader, or a momentum trader. The reason trading
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The markets are no place to be unsure of yourself and be wishy-washy. It’s not a place for second guesses, wishing, hoping, or gambling. If you want to win in this jungle, you need to be an unstoppable beast. Complete confidence in your system and method. You do not jump around in your trading or
Rich Trader Ed Seykota Interview Van Tharp: Have you played around with any other significant ideas in terms of position sizing besides market’s money? If so, what are they? If you could give me ten rules to consider with respect to position sizing what would they be? Ed Seykota: “Playing around” with “when market money
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A book review for: TREND COMMANDMENTS by Michael Covel This book is based on the author Michael Covel’s extensive 15-year study of the world’s top trend following traders such as Ed Seykota, Paul Tudor Jones, the Turtle Traders, Larry Hite, and many others. This is not a book filled with Mr. Covel’s opinions, as it’s
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The trend is your friend until the end when it bends. -Ed Seykota A little Trend Trading When you have an edge in your trading system your wins and losses will be distributed at random. You will not know when you will catch the big trend or big reversal and win big. If historically you
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In trading, money is simply made by making more money when you are on the right side of the trade than you lost when you were on the wrong side. That is rarely understood. Even many of the best traders in the world only win 50% of the time or less. In baseball the pitching
Try, Try, again. It is important in trading to never get overly discouraged with consecutive losses or draw downs in equity, this is a normal part of the business. I once had a 50% draw down early in my trading career when I did not respect risk, but came back and quadrupled my capital over
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Decisions, Decisions, Discretionary Trader vs. Systematic Trader Discretionary Traders trade information flow, while Systematic Traders trade price flow. While discretionary traders are busy trying to digest what fundamental news and information mean, systematic traders are taking the signals they are getting from actual price movement in the market. Systematic traders are not thinking and predicting
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Systems don’t need to be changed. The trick is for a trader to develop a system with which he is compatible. -Ed Seykota Traders can make psychological mistakes that can quickly endanger their career. Here are a few examples: They take on more risk than they can deal with. When stress takes over, traders start making bad
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Trading is an evolution of self and system. -Jonathan Keag Contrary to popular belief, the key to success in trading is not: a huge ego hot stock picks knowledge of the fundamental drivers of markets or even how to read a chart following a guru taking big risks What I have discovered in my twelve
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Interview where I discuss my humble beginnings in stock trading and how I learned some hard lessons as a new trader. I also discuss my book ‘New Trader, Rich Trader’.
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