“Trading is easy money, how hard can it be to just buy low and sell high?” The learning curve is steep and the work involved is intense mentally, emotionally, and intellectually. “I have a few thousand dollars, I will turn it into a million dollars quickly.” The bigger the attempted return the higher […]
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With all the perma bull fan fair we are sitting on a 4.33% return in 2014 for $SPY and it has been a choppy ride up with plenty of whip saws. I know many swing traders and day traders that are out performing buy and holders and trend followers. The 50 day sma has
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@SJosephBurns style agnostic….also keeps you nimble as not everything works all the time…important to adapt to opportunities mkt gives u — Al Sabogal (@alsabogal) May 24, 2014 Leave that to the academics, we’re here to make money, those rules don’t apply. Plenty of smart people out there never made a dime trading. — Jon
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Too many traders enter the markets with the get rich quick scheme, the delusion that trading is an easy way to make money, or too lazy to put in the effort it will take which is measured in years to be successful not hours. New traders need to focus completely on surviving that first year
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“There are just four kinds of bets. There are good bets, bad bets, bets that you win, and bets that you lose. Winning a bad bet can be the most dangerous outcome of all, because a success of that kind can encourage you to take more bad bets in the future, when the odds will
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Their entry parameters have a historical edge that gives them a real probability of profitability. They are profitable becasue their winning trades are bigger than their losing trades over long periods of time. This is either due to a high winning percentage or really big wins when they are right. The successful traders know
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$SPY has not closed beneath the 50 day sma in 27 trading days. This is our line of support. The 50 RSI on the daily chart has been our support level as well these past 27 days. With about a 3% return in $SPY this year the risk of long equities has really not been
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This book is written by a real market master. It is written by a professional trader who made high double digits returns every year for over a decade, making high 6 figures in profits each year. So you do not have to worry about him telling you personal theories or trying to advertise his newsletter
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