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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80% of trading is behavioral, maybe only 20% is based on the other things that a trader does. Like much of personal finance it is not the math but the behavior that makes all the difference. Most people’s problem with being broke does not lie in their budget it is due to their behavior
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20 Reasons Why 90% of New Traders Don’t Make It They risk too much to try to make so little. They trade with the probabilities against them. They think trading is easy money. Instead of focusing on learning how to trade they focus on getting rich. They blow up due to improper position sizing. With
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The $SPY chart is still in a long term uptrend. $SPY has settled into a short term price range $SPY is not respecting the 5 day ema or the 10 day sma so trend trading on the daily chart is not working here. For 12 out of 13 days after the gap up to
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Only to the extent that man exposes himself over and over again to annihilation, can that which is indestructible arise within him.-Durkheim — Ray C. Freeman (@R2RayCFreeman) January 6, 2014 Can’t remember the last time I read
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The primary eleven day range is $182 support/$184 resistance. The one day gap up break above $184 was rejected so far. ^Short term $SPY is currently range bound. The long term up trend is currently still strong and in place. $SPY opened at the highs of the day and could not find any buyers
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14 Emotional Dangers For Traders Anger- Revenge trading Fear- Inability to take an entry or hold a winner in a trend. Disgust- Can lead to loss of a traders confidence. Happiness- Surprisingly can lead to trading too big and taking on too many positions. Sadness- Can lead to having difficulty taking the next trade entry
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In the capital markets money flows in these continual directions… Money flows from those that do not know how to manage risk to those that do. Profits flows from those who fight trends to those who follow them. Money flows from those who buy option contracts that have terrible odds of being profitable to
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System What type of trader will I be? Swing, trend trader, trend follower, day trader, Elliot Wave, Fibonacci, CAN SLIM, option trader, another, or a combination? What time frame will I be trading on? What are my trading rules? What signals my entry? What will signal my exit? Do I use a trailing stop or
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While $SPY ended 2013 with an over 32% annual return and seemed to keep going up day after day with buying the dip as the name of the game last year. While ‘the dip” moved around to the 10 day SMA, the 21 day EMA, the 50 day SMA, even the 100 day simple moving
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Longer term uptrend still very healthy and intact, long term trend followers have been able to let long equity positions run for over a year now. Short term we are still a little overbought here and it would be healthy for a retracement to the 21 day or 50 day or some base building in
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@SJosephBurns my two mentors were most humble yet confident and focused in front of the screen, never arrogant — Conquest (@ConquestFund) January 3, 2014 How new traders start out –> pic.twitter.com/PP61JgrW8d — Steve Burns (@SJosephBurns) January 3, 2014 "I became over-confident, and that is the most dangerous state of mind anyone can develop in the
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A great conversation broke out in my trading group over the past few days when one member asked: “I have a question for some of you guys….right now I’m a part time trader with a full time job. I’d love to be
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When a new trader is in the process of building their capital for a trading account there are a few financial mistakes that they make that can really keep them from having the ability to ever build the necessary trading account to even be able to trade with in the first place. Here are some
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Here are the Blog posts that received the most Facebook likes on NewTraderU in 2013: (Each title is a link to that blog post). #1 The Magic of Compounding Your Returns 142 likes #2 A Trader’s Most Important Question 126 likes #3 The Top 25 Trading Books That Helped Readers Make Money
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The following titles can be searched on this website for the article by the same name. Advice for New Traders The Top 10 Questions Traders must ask to Protect Them from Themselves. Surviving the Trading Game The Perfect Trader The Five Most Important Questions an Option Trader Better Know. How to trade in 3D 10
When you are a new trader the things that are emotionally comfortable to do and feel good are almost always the wrong thing to do. Trading is a counter intuitive endeavor and that is why 90% do not make money trading, “Part of the “If it feels good, don’t do it” rule of trading. When
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The long term up trend and bull market is still very healthy and intact no doubt. Short term trend traders are highly likely to get a better entry point if they exit here and wait for a pull back to near term support levels or a dip. The 70 RSI has been resistance all year
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