Looking back at my early success in the stock market in the late nineties and even in the early 2000’s with the level of knowledge I had then at first glance at my returns I thought I was just lucky. However […]
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If you are a trader then you should never lose more than 1% of your total trading capital in any one trade through the use of position sizing based on volatility and stop losses. Don’t fight a down trend: only take high probability entries with great risk/reward ratios. Stick with your trading plan this
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The stock market is still in a long term up trend by staying over the 200 day sma. In the short term down trend the 100 day ema has acted as support. The $SPY price action has been under the 5 day ema for 7 days and has acted as end of day resistance.
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Down, then up, then down. Market a bit confused. DIRECTION DOWN, FULL HEDGES still in place. Enjoy the ride or in tweetland maybe ETR? — Tom Basso (@basso_tom) January 31, 2014 $AMZN weekly 390 puts sold 3/4 @ 24.28!! — DK1 (@canuck2usa) January 31, 2014 Or one could just trade price: "@jimcramer Darn futures really
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Chart courtesy of stockcharts.com The Elliott Wave Principle is a from of technical analysis that some traders use to analyze financial market cycles and forecast market trends by identifying extremes in investor psychology, highs and lows in prices, and other collective factors. Ralph Nelson Elliott (1871–1948), a professional accountant, discovered the underlying social principles
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Don’t trade your opinions trade a carefully written trading plan that expresses a methodology with an edge. Don’t trade your emotions trade your quantified entry set ups. Stop exiting when your scared and exit with your trailing stop is hit. Only trade
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Stay calm. Never trade position sizes that cause you increased anxiety. Stay within your comfort zone. Keep perspective. Keep in mind that one losing trade does not a failure make. If you are risking 1% of your trading capital, it should only be one of the next 100 trades. Stay comfortable. Make sure you
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What school of trading will you be studying? CAN SLIM, Trend Following, Gann, Fibonacci, Darvas, Day Trading, Swing Trading, etc. or a hybrid? Knowing who you are as a trader is the first step. Quantify your trading methodology
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Last week a lot of traders and investors got hurt in their trading accounts. With the market going from trying to break out to new all time highs to crashing through the 50 day in three days there were the quick and there were the dead. The very best traders I know made money due
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Foolish traders confuse hindsight with trading. They think that because they reviewed price performance history, and saw patterns or results, trading in real time would be simple . They don’t understand that real time trading involves risk management, discipline, and a developed trading plan and probably never will. Foolish traders believe that what
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GRRR!!! > https://t.co/4uwbI7RycW — Mr. Breakout (@sharptraders) January 24, 2014 "In trading, however, the person who can easily admit to being wrong is the one who walks away a winner." – Victor Sperandeo — Andrew Selby (@DontTalkStocks) January 19, 2014 Skin in the game doesn't make charlatans stop charlatanism, it just puts them out of
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The biggest mistake that new traders make is they think the right predictions are the key to profits. That making a ‘call’ is the key to great trading. Well it is not. Successful trading comes from robust quantified trading methods. Testing
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“He seemed to want to be glorified for his ability to be right, not quantify his method. It wasn’t a battle with anyone in the group, it was with himself. I don’t think he had the emotional maturity to use mindfulness to have that discussion with himself. Not faulting him, but it’s much easier
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A few key points to remember when analyzing market movements: Uncertainty causes much of the volatility, as neither buyers, sellers, or holders have the majority conviction to control the trend. Unexpected good news causes the market to (generally) go up as the new situation is priced in. Expected good news is usually sold into when
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With the action in the markets in the past few weeks I am looking at selling OTM call option premium using bearish credit spreads on $SSO and possibly swing trading long off any deep dips with bounces and shorting reversals off rally peaks in the the 65-70 RSI territory if we get there. We’ll see
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Some advice for using #twitter –> pic.twitter.com/dxxmHpxmE7 — Steve Burns (@SJosephBurns) January 11, 2014 "What I was confident in was the probability of winning after fifty trades per year." – Gil Blake — Andrew Selby (@DontTalkStocks) January 17, 2014 Complexity sells, simplicity pays – http://t.co/YyRDDZqbYz — Jon Boorman, CMT (@JBoorman) January 16, 2014 @RedDogT3Live @MNYCx
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Twitter can be a lot of noise if it is not filtered properly for quality. Here are twelve of my favorite follows on twitter that add add value to me stream through their expertise in many different areas. Their content and tweets are always high quality
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If you want to trade you have to be a great manager of STRESS. Stress will break you if it is not managed. If you enter a trade and your heart races and your foot starts tapping there could be many different issues going
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