What if you could read the principles for success for some of the world’s greatest traders? Well you can, here is how author Jack Schwager summed up the the similarities of the ‘Market Wizards’ he spent years interviewing in his second book. The following is an summarized excerpt from Jack D Schwager’s book, […]
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There are times with charts and markets that it is best to be out of them. With the current risk and volatility I have been trading smaller and smaller and less and less until finally I am only in a few positions for the first time all year. One of the keys to me holding
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It is difficult for most traders to trade with headline risk hanging overhead. It simply causes chaos in the markets. Here are five things that are caused by the risk of market moving news coming out at any moment. Headline risk disturbs the normal flow of the markets,
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This past year has been just like the chart studies I have done. Using the $SPY as the market filter in late December 2011 we had a break above the 200 day then a retest with support, we had confirmation of an up trend beginning in January 2012 with
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Here is a list of the ten most powerful quotes from Jesse Livermore’s book “How to Trade in Stocks.” Livermore was one of the greatest stock market operators of our time and his quotes stand the test of time. No one made more money in the markets or came back
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For me the best indicator of a trend is simply price action as measured through using moving averages. Moving averages capture trends visually for the trader, going higher or lower based on the price itself. No only does the power of moving averages lie in their power to measure price trends but
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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 debate rages about whether facebook is hype or the big winning stock of this decade. Whether it is a whole new form of communication that is changing the world or just a fad. The debate rages whether its earnings and revenue growth can appease Wall Street or if they have even begun
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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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The trader that changes survives. Stubborn traders do not make it very long in the markets. The first time they are wrong in a big trade and refuse to cut their losses they are ruined. A perma-bull in a bear market loses money as does a perma-bear in a bull
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