The strange thing about trading is the vast majority of traders lose money. Most studies put it at 90% as the amount of traders that are unprofitable in the long term. How can this be? The majority of traders are trading on emotions and predictions instead of what […]
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At 56, Paul Tudor Jones is a self made billionaire with a net worth of 3.3 billion and is ranked as the 336th richest person in the world, he knows exactly how to trade the biggest money for the biggest returns. One of Jones’ earliest and major successes was anticipating
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I am holding two long picks going into Monday morning $AAPL and $MLNX. While both of the stocks are in very strong bases they are very near to all time highs and have the potential to pop up and run if the market price action stays healthy. This is the
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If one of the greatest traders in history told you how to buy and sell the best stocks for the most profits would you listen? Well we have a chance to do just that with William J. O’Neil’s book “How to Make Money in Stocks”. His lifetime of research on the precise fundamental and
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You can read trading books until you are red-eyed and suffering from information overload. You can spend thousands of dollars on trading seminars, and you can waste a lot of time trying to get successful traders to give you the secret sauce. But in the end, it is simply you versus the markets. You
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One of the ways I coach myself each day before trading begins is to say to myself “Don’t do anything stupid”. When I quit doing stupid things that is when I started being consistently profitable year after year. You can do all your homework for trading, you can write your
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Last week was a wild ride with some of the most destructive action I have ever seen in price after many earnings reports. Then when the majority was bearish and many people were short waiting for the unraveling of Spain with its high bond yields and Greece to leave the
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“Mr. Seykota himself has put together a money management track record with returns of roughly +60% net of fees over the three-decade span of his trading career…” -Futures Magazine Ed Seykota, first featured in the book Market Wizards has one of the best records of all time for any trader.
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If you could ask advice from the world’s most successful hedge fund managers what would they tell you? Jack Schwager has done the work to get us some answers, here are some of the best tips garnered from the top traders in the hedge fund industry. The following quotes are from Jack Schwagers book Hedge
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What a week we have had with earnings, many plunges. Even for the markets beloved Apple. When talking heads on CNBC straight talking about “buying opportunities” and “investors” start trying to put an earnings miss into “perspective” we are generally in trouble. What many of the big call option bettors
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If you still wonder what the dividing line is between an up trending market and a down trending market is here are some charts to look at. In the Apple chart you will see the powerful trend that exploded after Apple over took the 50 day line this year. Also
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Even though Apple is THE monster stock of the last 10 years and I love the fundamentals and I love the company story, I still have a rule in my trading plan: I do not hold through earnings. Why? I could catch a $40 pop after
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The biggest question I have received from readers is what are my thoughts on Apple? They have asked my advice on how to play Apple through earnings, my advice “Don’t” instead wait for a trend to emerge after earnings. I captured the move in Apple this year by trading
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Many new traders are taken out of the trading game through bad mental practices. Here are some things that top money managers have shared through interviews and books that may help traders who are making mental mistakes in their trading. Ten Powerful Psychological Traits of the Rich Trader They have the ability to admit they
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“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.” -Albert Einstein “One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height
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1. Identify if you really want to be a trader. Is this truly your desire? Before you can develop persistence and eventually achieve success in the tough trading game, you need to first identify if this is truly what you want to do. If you are only doing this for the money then the odds
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If you are just randomly trading what you like with no real underlying system, method or planning then unfortunately your odds of success in the long term are slim. Trading a winning methodology is what creates an edge in trading. Consistently trading a robust system or methodology enables you to trade in a way
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Here is an excellent video put together by the linchpin of trend following Author Michael Covel covering the winning principles used by some of the world’s greatest traders. These are not theories or opinions these are the common principles used by these rich traders. This is the kind of video
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Today, as I look past the fireworks and cook outs and think about what this July 4th holiday in America is really all about: independence for the United States from Great Britain. The colonies sought independence from taxation without representation, independence from a King, and freedom for the states to profit from its own labors
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In trading as in all other endeavors in life there are people who take full responsibility for their own results and the consequences of their own actions and there are others who blame everybody and everything else for the bad things in their life. There are the winners and
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