20 Trading Insights from Paul Tudor Jones 1. Markets have consistently experienced “100-year events” every five years. While I spend a significant amount of my time on analytics and collecting fundamental information, at the end of the day, I am a slave to the tape and proud of it. 2. I see the younger […]
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Professional trader Richard Weissman was generous enough to post his trading rules in my facebook trading group and also gave me permission to share them with my blog readers. I have grown in my trading this year interacting with Richard and watching how he trades. He is also very generous in sharing his wisdom with
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I sold my personal $SPY position on Thursday at the end of day. I did this because for the trend to have continued on the daily chart it had to start building another price base or go parabolic to $175 or $180 if it did not continue up then the odds were that it would
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If someone was ready to start trading and had a basic understanding of trading and the markets and asked for some of my best advice on how they could make money as a trader, this is what I would tell them. Understand that trading is like any other professional endeavor, you will be monetarily rewarded
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The 7 Expensive Bad Habits of New Traders Trading with no stop losses. You can’t control your profits but you can control and limit your losses with a planned exit. Not having an exit plan can be very expensive when a trend takes off against you and you
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I have been fortunate to have had a great string of success trading over the past decade from 2003-2013. How I trade today was primarily learned by making mistakes in the late nineties up to 2002. I have always had a knack for getting on the right sides of great trends at the right time.
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Each stock is different with how it reacts to support and resistance levels and what what moving average support it gets in an up trend. Facebook has not been an overly powerful momentum stock, the chart looks like one under steady institutional accumulation. Facebook is not a stock that you must buy at break
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Before you launch your trading career or continue it, it is important to ensure that your trading method works. This is where the homework comes in. Chart studies, computer back testing, the study of the success and failure rate of chart patterns, how monster stocks performed historically, and eyeballing charts around specific price action back
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Do you want to drastically improve your trading? Simple, TRADE SMALLER, risk less, cut losses sooner, but still let winners run. The 1%-2% maximum risk per trade rule can dramatically improve your trading by limiting draw downs and still leaving the upside open for big winners. When you risk smaller amounts of your
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Ten Golden Trading Rules That Can Help New Traders Never add too a losing trade. In adding to a losing trade you are already wrong but now become more wrong with a bigger trading size. Adding to losers makes you a counter trend trader that usually ends badly. Never lose more than 1% to
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Most of the best traders I have read about and know of personally do not predict what will happen they trade what is happening. New traders always want to predict, they want to argue about their beliefs and why something must happen or will happen. Most rich traders are rich because they are
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$SPY was able to trade above the 10 day for 4 straight days which was previous resistance. For six days the 100 day held as support before $SPY made a run for the 50 day. For Four straight days $SPY has made higher highs each day versus the previous day. Last week $SPY successfully
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A lot of trading is counter intuitive when it comes to price action. Also a lot of things that new traders see leads them to believe that there is some magic short cut to success. If trading was really as easy as so many subscription services try to sell it as then there
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Over the past few years, I have seen many people pass away that I knew well that were still only in their 40′ s or 50’s. It has been almost 12 years since one of my favorite Facebook friends passed away suddenly. The thing I have come to realize after having my 50th birthday, is
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Before there was the U.S Dollar acting as the world’s reserve currency there was an almost universally accepted form of money since the beginning of recorded history: GOLD. Paper currencies were originally pegged to gold to give them value. The bearer of the originally paper currencies could exchange it for precious metals, that
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SPY has closed below the 10 day sma for 16 straight days now. I prefer to play the long side when we are trading above the 10 day sma. I could take a long position with a close above this 10 day line. We may get this on Tuesday with the looks of
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Trading is one of the few professional fields where anyone can go against professionals very quickly and easily by simply opening a trading account. There is no college required, no degree, or apprenticeship needed before a new trader steps up to compete in the world markets against seasoned traders and professional money managers. The 10%
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In my short term trend trading I like to ride winning trends that emerge through key long term resistance and support levels by trailing the trend trade with a short term moving average. My two favorites are the 5 day ema and the 10 day sma to use as my trailing stops in a long
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