If we want to be successful as traders it is crucial that we have great filters. We must filter out all the noise that separates us from the actual price action. In the end it is just us versus the market. We need to seek to learn how to trade from others and not look […]
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How have I had great returns in my trading account while never owning a single share of my biggest winning stocks? I also never shorted the stock of my biggest winning short plays. I also controlled hundreds and at times thousands of shares of stock for minimal capital and caught the majority of many moves
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There are many reasons I trade, I do not trade just for the money. Money is just a tool, I trade for what can be accomplished with the right amount of money. I trade for peace of mind, I trade for financial freedom, I trade so I can get up in the morning and do
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What do I think will happen with Apple’s stock price after earnings? The current technical price action of the down sloping 50 day and 200 day moving averages and the huge distribution this stock has been under will be colliding with the incredible fundamentals and questions of sustainable growth. What is a trader to do?
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If you are feeling down about your trading losses, then this article may put both of these losses into perspective. These losses show how crucial it is to have a price level that will indicate that you were wrong and will need to stop out at. There is no reason to ever take a huge
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There are things that we do as traders that set us back in our journey to success and lose us money. There are other things that traders do that just destroy themselves. Many of the following things are done daily by the 90% of traders that lose money in the market consistently. If we
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I prefer above all else to simply enter a position with a break out of a price consolidation to a new high. Preferably a hot growth stock with a new revolutionary product or service. But I will also trade anything that breaks out of a base into a trend,like gold, silver, oil, sector
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Here are seven lessons from Jesse Livermore who is considered by many as one of the greatest traders who ever lived. Lesson Number One: Cut your losses quickly. As soon as a trade is contemplated, a trader must know at what point in time he’ll be proven wrong and exit a position. Risk management should
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What were the greatest trades of all time? Who made them? Here is a list of the who, what, when, where, and how of the greatest trades that were ever made. While the risk management while executing many of these trades is not what many traders would want, we can see many of these as
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Two of the biggest obstacles in trading are managing risk and developing a winning method. However, even if you control your risk on every trade and have a methodology that is a winner, you can still be tripped up by your own mind. Even when effectively managing risk, you will probably lose 10%
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I believe the key to this market will be in how the SPY trades from here as a proxy for the market. The SPY is currently range bound after the gap up day. While the DIA and QQQ ETFs have both undercut the lows of the gap up day while the SPY has not. A
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Do you use moving averages in your trading? If not you are missing out on a very simple tool for finding support and resistance levels along with possible trend identification. It is very interesting to lay a 50 day and 200 day simple moving averages on to a chart for the past year. You will
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I did this interview back in June of 2012. U.S. Investing Champion Mark Minervini who was featured in Jack Schwager’s book Stock Market Wizards was generous enough to grant me this interview. Let’s listen and learn from the man who has returned consistent triple digit returns in the
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The weakest part of any trading method is the trader themselves. There are many, many, robust trading systems and methods that do make money in the long term. The problem is the trader having the discipline and mental toughness to trade one of them consistently. The vast majority of time it is not a system
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“We attempt to make order out of the market and find reasons for everything. This attempt to find order tends to block one’s ability to go with the flow of the markets, because we see what we expect to see rather than what is really happening.” -Dr. Van K Tharp The day a trader gives
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“The Holy Grail is not what you would expect it to be. It is something that is different for each person. It’s a hidden secret you have to discover for yourself but it is obvious~ once it is realized.”- David Mobley, Sr. Most new traders go on a quest for “The Holy Grail” of trading.
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These questions were sent to me by a very intelligent, hard working, professional trader. She agreed to let me share them with my blog readers. I think some readers may find value in the answers based on my own journey and learning the hard way. 1. On your weekly puts from Thursday January 3rd, only
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My over all outlook after the fiscal cliff decision and the gap up is bullish. We need to hold price action of the major stock indexes in the range that has developed over the past three trading days after the gap. The gap is bullish and I am not a big believer in an immediate
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The very first rule we live by is: Never risk more than 1% of total equity on any trade. -Larry Hite I try very hard not to risk more than 1% of my portfolio on a single trade. –Bruce Kovnar One of the most important lessons that a trader must follow to ensure his long term
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Many new traders and new investors make the mistake of looking for and buying cheap stocks. Do not fall into the cheapskate trader trap, instead just pay for quality. Cheap stocks are cheap for a reason, they vast majority of the time they are junk. Quality stocks rarely if ever trade for under $15
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