This book may be one of the greatest trading books ever published. Jack Schwager set about interviewing some of the world’s top traders in 1988 and the principles these traders were kind enough to share has stood the test of time. These were not one year wonders these traders […]
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The only place luck has in trading is that you will hopefully be on the right side of unexpected moves due to surprises. In trading you should trade in such a way that good luck will benefit you and bad luck will not destroy you. In my trading luck has
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The Power of the 1% Bet One of the most powerful principles that makes me a successful trader is not stock picking, a specific indicator, or a trading holy grail. What allows me to win and stay in the game is that my top priority is to only risk 1% of
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In the markets there are many different types of traders and many motivations that drive them. Everyone has heard of different types of traders based on their trading method: Swing Traders, Day Traders, Momentum Traders, etc. But what about different types of traders based on their psychology, their very purpose?
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If I was a trading doctor, I would look for these 10 symptom in a trader before I diagnosed them as being greedy. Greedy trading can result in blindness to danger, dizziness for profits, and a loss of trading capital. Look for these ten warning signs : Greed causes the trader to only look at
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There are times in the markets where risk management is far more important than profits, keeping the capital you have safe more important than growing it. I believe this is one of those times with volatility growing, uncertainty increasing, and many types of traders seeing profits evaporate and losses mount quickly. This is a great
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After 200+ trading books and 13 years of trading that has accumulated some nice 6 figure profits I have many things that I have decided on in my trading. I am a discretionary rule based trend follower. I have found that I have a knack for seeing the big picture
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Trading is really not as much of a numbers game as it is a mind game. Winning or losing in the long term will come down to whether you quit or keep going on your trading journey. Trading is not for everyone, there is no easy money in the markets. You will fight for
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In trading fear can be good or bad, if you let fear control you it is bad if you control fear it can cause you to have positive behaviors. Here are the proper uses of fear in trading. GOOD FEAR Be afraid of losing more than 1% of your
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What happens when legendary trader Richard Dennis put a want ad in the paper to hire traders? What kind of results would ordinary people make if they were given a winning system and a million dollar account? The results will surprise you. This experiment was over an argument that
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In trading most new traders allow hope and fear to dictate their trading. They have a losing trade and instead of selling it and getting out they instead hope it will come back to even allowing the loss to grow. Another error for new traders is that when they have
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This is one of the key trading lessons that really helped me understand risk management long ago. This is one of the keys to successful trading, viewing risk as your metric for trading. This article was originally published on the Van Tharp Institute’s Web Site. Risk and R-Multiples Knowing when you’re going to exit a trade
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If you have not realized it yet, in trading you are not going to be right every time with your trades. You are not even going to be right the majority of the time. Most of the best traders in the world are only right 50% of the time, many
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Trading is not all about just stock picking, it is not just about a winning system. Yes, first you have to understand how to trade and put the odds in your favor of winning, but that is not enough. You must also add in risk management so when you lose ten times in a
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Not Managing Your Risk in Trading is like…… a fisherman putting all his bait on one hook and casting it out. an NBA star betting his career on on 3 point shot from half court. an NFL quarterback betting his pro contact on one 40 yard pass. a pro golfer on tour betting his
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