3 Lessons I Got From A Proprietary Trading Firm Founder & Trader This is a guest post from Etienne Crete @DesireToTrade. For years, I have been passionate about trading. It is a discipline that is generally unknown by a lot of people and seen as mysterious by many. Nevertheless, I gave it a try three years […]
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This is a Guest Post by Alex @MacroOps which was originally posted HERE. From Jack Schwager’s Market Wizards: October 1987 was a devastating month for most investors as the world stock markets witnessed a collapse that rivaled 1929. That same month, the Tudor Futures Fund, managed by Paul Tudor Jones, registered an incredible 62 percent
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“Winners do quit all the time, they just quit the right stuff at the right time.” – Seth Godin Quitting is not always the wrong thing to do. There is a time when you have to decide what you want and go get it, there are times to stop if you hit a dead end
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It’s that time of year again! Time to choose the most helpful trader on Twitter Finance for 2016. Who gave you the most encouragement, saved you some money, or inspired you to be a better trader? Choose from the list, or write in the Twitter handle of your favorite trader. Poll closes December 31st.
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This is a fun festive Christmas Guest post from Andrew Derbyshire: On The Twelve Days Of Christmas My Central Banker sent to me: Twelve Non Farm Payrolls Eleven Market Gurus Ten All Time Highs Nine Rounds Of Printing Eight Analyst Upgrades Seven Faulty Samsung Phones Six Twitter
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10 Things That Don’t Work Trading Stocks Are You Tracking 2016’s Most Influential FinTweeters? How to find an edge in the markets (a proven approach) Respect to the Trader, the Epitome of the Entrepreneur
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The #SPX has traded in an intra-day range of less than 0.35% three straight days. Going back 45 years, this has never happened before. — Ryan Detrick, CMT (@RyanDetrick) December 23, 2016 This #bull market is 3 yrs old. It might sound old, till you look at history. https://t.co/1lGqNF2gcy pic.twitter.com/quRvPnVyX4 — Ryan Detrick, CMT (@RyanDetrick)
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In over 25 years of learning what works and what doesn’t in the stock market I believe there are many paradoxes. Most of trading is counter intuitive and new traders usually enter the market looking for predictions, sure things, hot tips, and to know what to buy. In reality it is following price action as
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The $UVXY ETF started trading in October of 2011 and it seeks a return that is 2 times the return of the VIX on a daily basis. Due to the compounding of daily returns, the $UVXY’s returns over periods other than one day will be very different than just holding double the $VIX due to
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Intuition In Trading And Investing: Can You Trust It? This is a Guest Post by Alex @MacroOps which was originally posted HERE. Do you ever get that feeling that a certain trade will be huge? That you should size up on it and go for the jugular? You can’t exactly describe why this trade is
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This is a Guest Post by Dante Vincent you can find him on Twitter @DGTrading101. This post originally appeared on his website dgtrading101.blogspot.com. It is reposted here with permission. I get approached with this question so often. “How do I find direction in my trading? I don’t have a niche. I feel like everybody has one and
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$SPY continues to stay in a strong uptrend but is starting to consolidate gains. $SPY traded in a $224 support and $227 resistance trading range last week. Price has become very extended from the 50 day and 200 day SMA and even the 10 day EMA. A small pullback is likely next week to the 10
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Karen “The Supertrader” Goes Rogue iShares Italy ETF (EWI): A Risk Reversal Options Trading Setup All Indexes Are Not Created Equal Personal finances are more important than portfolio management. Shhhh! Blazing Your Own Trading Trail
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Times in the past 35 years that the 30-Yr Treasury Bond has been more oversold than today (using 14-week RSI)…19841987199420062013 pic.twitter.com/Sp6K64sBGV — Charlie Bilello, CMT (@charliebilello) December 16, 2016 Ratio of S&P 500 to Gold at an 11-year high. $SPY outperforming $GLD since its inception (Nov '04) for the first time since 2005. pic.twitter.com/GVSfm0Z305 —
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This is a Guest Post by Dante Vincent you can find him on Twitter @DGTrading101. His website is dgtrading101.blogspot.com. Routine & Extraneous Influence – How Important are they to your Trading? Routine. This is one of the most important tools in your trading arsenal and you don’t even know it. What you do day in and day
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Two things that many new traders and even experienced traders waste their time on is regret and hindsight. They look at charts and see the past so clearly on them, they should have bought here, they should have sold there. Why didn’t they? The charts look so obvious in hindsight. We really should not waste
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This is not a prediction it is just a list of things to look for as possible signs before a market rolls over. Alone these are just possibilities but the probabilities increase as more of the signs are in place. These signs do not mean that the market could crash just that it can pullback to
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This is a Guest Post by Alex @MacroOps which was originally posted here: Lessons From A Trading Great: Stanley Druckenmiller The “greatest money making machine in history”, a man with “Jim Roger’s analytical ability, George Soros’ trading ability, and the stomach of a riverboat gambler” is how fund manager Scott Bessent describes Stanley Druckenmiller. That’s
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The first support for $SPY on any small pullback would be the 10 day EMA. $SPY is over two ATRs from the 10 day EMA and a pullback there would be a normal pullback inside a parabolic uptrend. We should see this next week. Over the next few weeks the next key level for support
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25 Places To Find Quantitative Trading Strategies https://t.co/n9Tda0iUIi via @marwoodjoe — JBMarwood (@MarwoodJB) November 29, 2016 The only way to correct our own behavior is to create systems. Willpower alone won’t do it. https://t.co/uqHsh0skdf via @awealthofcs — Downtown Josh Brown (@ReformedBroker) December 9, 2016 8 metrics every trader must know about his trading system to
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