Lose your money,but keep your discipline. Trading is about following a method, system, or rules that give you an advantage over other market participants in the long run. There are good bets and bad bets. There are traders who follow a trading plan with discipline and others that start trading out of fear and greed […]
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Here is a great article that appeared in Investor’s Business Daily discussing the historical limits Apple can get above the 200 day moving average before a correction. Interesting reading but it may or may not help with your specific trading style, for information purposes only. CLICK ON YELLOW HIGHLIGHTS IN
The 200 day $AAPL Moving Average & When High Prices are Too High Read More »
The market is at a cross roads, we are either at the bottom of a bull market or the beginning of a bear market. The up trend is still technically in place but the bears are fighting to bring us into an official down trend. Below or five key price levels
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Like in the movie ‘Fight Club’ where there was a secret group of ‘fighters’ that loved what they did there is also a group of ‘traders’ in the market that love what they do so much that they win. In the markets there is a club of traders that make
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One of the most frustrating things a trader can experience is being dead on right about a trade, taking it, BUT.. still losing money! How can this be? This can happen in five different ways, each of the first four contain a lesson for better planning the fifth way
5 Ways To Be Right About a Trade BUT… Still Lose Money. Read More »
“Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish.” -Steve Jobs Is the Apple monster stock run of the century over? Has the Fox Conn labor problems and the Samsung Galaxy 3 finished off the once mighty Apple? Without Steve Jobs is it just over, due to no innovation and a decline? Or is this
How Far Will The Apple Fall From The Tree? My Entry Plan. Read More »
This blog post is an excerpt from my book New Trader, Rich Trader. “The funny thing is that the principles you have been teaching me for trading success have also been helping me in other areas of my life. I think much more clearly about many parts of my life now. My journal has expanded
“The financial markets generally are unpredictable. So that one has to have different scenarios… The idea that you can actually predict what’s going to happen contradicts my way of looking at the market.” -George Soros While the longer term up trend is in place it is looking wobbly
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Charts Read More »
I am long Apple and Google going into Monday morning via in the money weekly options. I will not be one of those people fighting this tape. We are in an up trend, this is a bull market. Prices are going up not down, yes we could reverse, but we
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Many traders have not done their homework in understanding how the greatest stocks in history acted. How they created products that changed the world and both earnings expectations and real earnings drove these stocks up to dizzying levels. Traders that have not done the homework think these stocks are short plays and just can’t
Recipe For a Monster Stock Read More »
The Ten Commandments of Trading Thou shalt follow no tips only your trading plan. Thou shalt not make unto thee a pet stock, commodity, or currency, thy shall trade the price action. Thou shalt not take too large a position in any one trade. Risking 1% or 2% of trading capital is enough. Remember the
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“Fish see the bait, but not the hook; men see the profit, but not the peril.” -Chinese proverb Options are both one of the greatest wealth building tools ever created and a quick way to lose all your trading capital if you over leverage and disregard the odds of your trade being a winner. Options
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Apple is a strange animal. We have one of the world’s biggest market cap stocks at a value stock price with growth stock earnings. Apple itself is asymmetric, with all the naysayers continuing to believe that it is too big to grow and that it must stumble eventually we are sitting with a
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In trading there are moving averages that are watched by many traders. While the most popular are the 50 day and 200 day simple moving averages there is another very popular one that is watched and on many people’s radar. Many traders use the 20 day sma, 21 day
A Key Moving Average in Play Now Read More »
With most indexes breaking out to multi-year highs after the European debt crises appearing to be kicked farther down the road for now we are setting up for a possible run up into new price territory in many leading names. I am holding three positions going into Monday morning. While
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Trading is not all fun and games. We do not make money on every trade. It is not like other careers or jobs where you work and then get paid. Our pursuit is more like the life of an entrepreneur. Our idea may work or it may not. The
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On this Labor Day when many are off work for a paid holiday I am working, looking at charts, planning, thinking and reading. Pondering what Tuesday trading may bring. Trading is NOT the path to easy money nor free money. Trading is work and a profession like any other, traders
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Here are my thoughts on the top three stocks on my watch list. But be aware I trade a very fast time frame and could change my opinion at the open Tuesday if prices move strongly through support or resistance that changes what I think the stock
Three Charts: Here is What I See Read More »
While Babe Ruth was not a trader he was the greatest home run hitter to ever play baseball for many, many years until Hank Aaron finally beat his record. I think it is appropriate to look at Babe Ruth quotes for trading because many of the most profitable traders of
If Babe Ruth was a Trader…. Read More »
Discretionary Traders Vs Systematic Traders In the classic Star Trek movies and television show Captain Kirk believed in his abilities to make the best decisions in the circumstances he found himself in. Mr. Spock contrasted against Kirk’s leadership style by using logic and reason along with probabilities of success to make the best
Do You Trade like Captain Kirk or Mr. Spock? Read More »