At some point traders should have that break through day where they are tired of losing and ready to start making money. There should be a day where eyes are opened that what we were doing was just not working. We are ready for change, we are ready to listen, and learn. We

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Learning to trade is a process, and it is same for everyone. The traders that think they are exceptions to the process of trading education generally learn the hard way that they confuse bull markets for genius or market conditions for skills. It is easy to lose or make money in the markets,

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Some days I wish I could travel back in time 15 years and teach myself what I have learned in the markets the hard way. I was fortunate to make money early on with the benefit of the nineties bull market, I just wished I would have known then how to keep all

Yes, the vast majority of traders are gamblers, maybe the majority of market participants are in fact gamblers. The traders that are gamblers trade with no plan and without understanding the odds are stacked against them. Whether it is buying far out of the money options with no method for profitability or randomly chasing stocks

 In my trading career I do not remember ever seeing this many doji on any given chart. It is very odd that the open and close be so close to each other day after day after day with all the real movement happening in the post market and pre-market. The biggest clues are the two

   Dojis, dojis, every where. Truly some strange price action last week in the major S&P 500 index. I bought SPY puts when the price was struggling at the 50 day late Friday in the last 45 minutes and was instantly questioned and criticized on twitter for doing that on a bullish candle, minutes later

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   With all the silliness and noise around trading that happens online I thought I would clarify what I see makes the rich traders win in the markets. Whether they are a professional or trading their own account the markets leave many traders broken

  For the past 5 trading days we have been in a range bound market. The 100 day is the logical support line in this current price range with a quick reversal back over it the first day it was lost and bounce off it the following day. The 50 day is the resistance area,

We are looking at a failure to break out to a new all time high Wednesday. With the day of the failed break out closing near the low of the day. Usually only bearish reversals follow a gravestone reversal candlestick, the last two days has been that reversal. We did regain the 20 day after

For the first time in a long time we did not get the relief rally after Bernanke spoke, the markets did not like what was said and sold accordingly. The clean break of the 50 day should have been like a bell ringing to bulls that we are not in Kansas anymore Toto. After breaking

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                This book is written about how three mutually reinforcing skills make a complete trader. 1). Pattern Recognition and Discretionary Trading. Using the Wyckoff method you will see chart representations of how hot growth stocks are accumulated in bases for long periods of time. They eventually have pull backs then break out to new highs