Weekend Brain Food for Traders
The Intraday Stock Market Schedule How to Make Yourself a Better Trader, Right Now Market Timing Tips & Rules Every Investor Should Know Keep it simple
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Top Tweets of the Week: 8/12/16
Long whiskey, short soda — 3:30 Ramp Capital™♿️ (@RampCapitalLLC) August 12, 2016 Remember when you were supposed to sell in May, sell #Brexit, and August was supposed to be bearish? Good times! — 3:30 Ramp Capital™♿️ (@RampCapitalLLC) August 12, 2016 Let me guess: You need my services in 30 minutes. So predictable. Moochers. — 3:30
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10 Things Hard About Trading
It is hard not to trade too big when you really believe in a trade entry. It is even harder to take a big loss if it goes against you. It is hard to keep taking your entry signals during a losing streak. It is also hard to miss a signal and watch it go
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My Take On Trading
If you’re too proud of your trade idea it may be a bad one. If you can’t trade with controlled emotion the position size is probably too big. If the trade is going to stress you out and mess up the quality of your life it is probably not a good trade. If you don’t know why your
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3 Pillars of Trading Performance
This is a Guest Post by Alex @MacroOps which was originally posted at The 3 Pillars Of Trading Performance As an active trader, there are 3 key factors of your strategy that you need to pay close attention to. There’s no holy grail in trading, but tweaking and maximizing these 3 things can get you pretty
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Work Smarter at Trading, Not Harder
This is a Guest Post by Dante Vincent you can find him on Twitter @DGTrading101. His website is dgtrading101.blogspot.com. Just a quick blog post today, the sole purpose of this post is to try and save you some time if you’re currently pursuing a trading career and struggling with it, in an effort to get you to
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Bulls in Slow Motion: $SPY Chart 8/7/16
The $SPY chart is in an established uptrend with a fresh breakout Friday to new all time highs. $SPY is above all key moving averages 10 day, 50 day, and 200 day. Which remains bullish long term. Currently all dips are being bought quickly. Slow Stochastics is under a bullish cross. ATR has stopped declining
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Some of the Best Trading Blog Posts
15 Insights from Trading Psychology 2.0 9 Mistakes Quants Make that Cause Backtests to Lie Words & Phrases That Should Be Banished From Finance What it means to be Modern Trader The Most Important Question of Your Life
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Trading Tweets of the Week: 8/5/16
If your financial advisor has really strong viewpoints about the Bank of Japan every day, you’re probably not going to retire. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ — Downtown Josh Brown (@ReformedBroker) August 4, 2016 $TWTR #ER never happened fyi — DK1 (@canuck2usa) August 5, 2016 A defining characteristic of a successful trader is the ability to look inward when
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How Does the Fed Manipulate Spreads?
This is a Guest Post by Alex @MacroOps which was originally posted at Spread Thin — How The Fed Manipulates Financial Spreads “The Fed is manipulating markets…” “Central Banks are destroying capitalism…” “Yellen has distorted true price discov… yada-yada-yada” We’ve all heard the constant chorus of central bank bashing. The ridicule comes from a diverse crowd,
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Make Losses Affordable
This is a Trend Following Guest Post by Michael Melissinos Originally Posted on his Blog. Trend Followers don’t shy away from losses. Losses provide valuable feedback that helps them improve as traders. Sometimes, losses occur despite solid strategies and perfect execution. Such is life when participating in markets. Some trend followers break down, change their approach and
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The Range Bound $SPY Chart 7/31/16
$SPY has settled into a trading range with $217.50 as resistance and $215.50 as support for the past 12 trading days. The market is in a long term uptrend as new all time highs continue to be broken. The intermediate term risk/reward ratio favors a pullback to $215.50 before higher prices are made. Secondary support
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My 5 Favorite Blog Posts: Week of 7/30/16
Reason And Rationality: The Psychological Keys To Investing Success A New Trader’s First Year A Story: How Rayner Teo Lost 50% of His Capital Before Turning Into a Profitable Trader The day Rolf @Tradeciety started traveling the world – When It All Began There’s No Excuse To Be Uneducated
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Top Trading Tweets: 7/29/16
I don't mind being wrong one bit but not having patience makes me crazy #PatiencePays — DK1 (@canuck2usa) July 28, 2016 This is the 4th consecutive quarter where $TWTR reports and drops double-digits the next day. — Downtown Josh Brown (@ReformedBroker) July 27, 2016 This is the top! (ht @ReformedBroker) pic.twitter.com/KI96kyWYFw — Brattle St. Capital
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Profitable Trading Habits
This is a Guest Post by Dante Vincent you can find him on Twitter @DGTrading101. His website is dgtrading101.blogspot.com. Some Key Realizations that Foster Profitability In Trading I lost money for about a year straight once I committed to day trading as a full time profession about 3 years ago. Literally a year straight. About 14 months
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The Perfectionist Trader
This is a Guest Post by Dante Vincent you can find him on Twitter @DGTrading101. His website is dgtrading101.blogspot.com. This post today is for anyone who trades on a daily basis. Perfectionism & how it relates to a day trader. I got this idea from one of my traders last week. It was from a guy whom
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Old School vs. New School Trading
Is Old School More Modern than New School? The following is a Guest Post By Michael Melissinos Originally posted April 18, 2016 on his Blog Jason Fried, founder of 37 Signals and Basecamp, wrote a Medium article about this topic — comparing two machines — his timeless wristwatch and his can-do-anything cell phone. A wristwatch, made with gears, springs and
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One Simple Rule Makes All the Difference
This is a Trend Following Guest Post by Michael Melissinos Originally Posted April 19, 2016 on his Blog We can approach the markets many different ways. In this article, I’d like to illuminate the trouble with holding onto our investments too tight — that is, not giving them the necessary rope to fluctuate and evolve into a big trend.
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Boring Bullish Spy Chart 7/24/16
$SPY has held its all time high break out so this chart remains bullish long term. Short term $SPY is due for a pullback, the 10 day EMA is one high probability pullback area. $SPY has been in a tight $217.37 resistance and $216 support trading range for seven trading days. The MACD bullish cross is still in place.
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My Favorite Trading Articles: Week 7/23/16
Here’s Why Setting A Stop Loss Is So Important Bezos Surpasses Buffett as World’s Second Richest Man August 15 1971 Changed The Course Of U.S. Economic History Interview With Jack Schwager: Masters in Business (Audio) Three Questions to Ask About Any Market
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