After every World Series and Super Bowl game the winners and losers of these games have different levels of energy. It is the same for traders during winning streaks versus losing streaks. Losing money hurts more than making money feels good. Missing trneds hurt, exiting a trade with a small win only to see a […]
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While this list is not all inclusive it does have some of the most followed traders on twitter that I know of and it is a great place to start with a follow list if you are a trader. Here are ten of the most popular and followed traders on twitter: With thousands of members
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In the beginning you have your trading system and your plan and you are excited about trading. Energy flows freely to the new trader that has a mental blank slate. Only the potential of future profits are in the new trader’s psyche. As a new trader tests the waters of the markets with real money the blank slate
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$SPY price is above all key moving averages the 5 day ema, 10 day ema, 50 day sma, and the 200 day sma. $SPY is within striking distance of all time highs. Nothing is more bullish than all time highs. Financials are leading the market here. $XLF Bond prices are down and bond yields are up.
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Costanza Capital LLC is having it’s best year ever pic.twitter.com/ibGcuF2UyG — StockCats (@StockCats) November 17, 2016 people deleting “why Trump is great for the shipping stocks” articles left and right — StockCats (@StockCats) November 17, 2016 a highly-paid team of expert analysts wearing very expensive neckties are recalculating asset correlation assumptions as we speak —
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This is a Guest Post by Alex @MacroOps which was originally posted at: Lessons From A Trading Great: George Soros Remember the scene from the 90’s classic, The Sandlot, where “Smalls” loses his father’s Babe Ruth autographed baseball to “The Beast” and the other kids question him in disbelief, saying: Smalls: I was gonna put the
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“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” – Albert Einstein Paraphrase A trader has to learn what matters and what does not matter for their own profitability. A good filter can save a trader a lot of time, stress, and capital. You have to know what to watch, what to ignore, and
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I firmly believe that what truly separates the 10% of winning traders from the 90% that lose is their mindset. The vast majority of traders think they want to trade until the have a drawdown and they can’t handle it and end up quitting entirely when the delusion of what they thought trading would be
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The stock market went into panic coming into the uncertainty of the election as Trump odds of winning rose with the FBI looking back into Clinton e-mails. The downtrend immediately reversed as the FBI dropped the Clinton investigation at the $SPX 200 day sma. The market rallied into the election sure that Clinton would win and
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#CNN right now …. pic.twitter.com/loVGEn4ne0 — traderstewie (@traderstewie) November 9, 2016 As someone who's lived in other countries, all I can say is, democrat or republican, you're lucky to live here. Don't take it for granted — traderstewie (@traderstewie) November 10, 2016 Getting a lot questions from traders who missed this week's big rally. All
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We know we have to manage our trading system. Our entries and our exits and our mind. But how much pain can you manage as a trader? Traders just like entrepreneurs have to manage the pain of losses, set backs, and battle to remain confident in themselves and their ideas even when their is little
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Here are ten mistakes traders make that are eventually their undoing. I have made almost all of these mistakes with zeroes on the end at times. It takes years to learn these lessons and they are usually learned only the hard way through the financial pain of losses and the mental pain of being wrong.
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The weakest part of any trading method is the trader themselves. There are many, many, robust trading systems and methods that do make money in the long term. The problem is the trader having the discipline and mental toughness to trade one of them consistently. The vast majority of time it is not a system
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This is a Guest Post by Alex @MacroOps which was originally posted here: Lessons from a Trading Great: Jesse Livermore “Boy Wonder”, “Boy Plunger” and the “Great Bear of Wall St.” are a few of the monikers Jesse Livermore was known by. Livermore was immortalized in the trading classic Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by
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The stock market seems to be correlated to going down when the probabilities of Trump being president go up and going up when the probabilities of Hillary being president go up. The $SPY is already in oversold territory closing with a very rare 29.30 RSI. We are near the bounce and rally zone the danger
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Followed my trading plan today but closing the day with a loss. Loss management is a big part of trading. Live to fight another day — traderstewie (@traderstewie) November 3, 2016 Even though indices have pulled back in the last 2 weeks, they aren't fully portraying the brutal carnage I'm seeing in individual stocks —
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We talk a lot about the importance of trading plans, but it has occurred to me that plans may be where many of us are coming up short. Merriam Webster defines a plan as a set of actions that have been thought of as a way to do or achieve something, or something that a
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