Have you ever heard of the saying “If the shoe fits wear it?” Well in trading, much like with shoe sizes, you can only trade a size that fits you. Unlike shoe sizes though you can grow into bigger money shoes over time. Reading books about trading,doing simulated […]
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“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.” -Albert Einstein “One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height
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1. Identify if you really want to be a trader. Is this truly your desire? Before you can develop persistence and eventually achieve success in the tough trading game, you need to first identify if this is truly what you want to do. If you are only doing this for the money then the odds
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If you are just randomly trading what you like with no real underlying system, method or planning then unfortunately your odds of success in the long term are slim. Trading a winning methodology is what creates an edge in trading. Consistently trading a robust system or methodology enables you to trade in a way
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Here is an excellent video put together by the linchpin of trend following Author Michael Covel covering the winning principles used by some of the world’s greatest traders. These are not theories or opinions these are the common principles used by these rich traders. This is the kind of video
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This is not what an up trending market looks like. Choppiness, uncertainty, leaders getting pummeled, fear running rampant over many, and government interventions to save the economy. As I write this we are looking at possibly 6 straight down days in a row for some indexes. While the $SPY
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Here is a simple formula for turning your trading account into a double leveraged Exchange Traded Fund. (Well not really, you will not be an ETF but you will get very close to the same returns of a 2X ETF with much less risk). Let’s say your account is $60,000 and Apple stock is trading
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The whole world is simply nothing more than a flow chart for capital—-legendary trader Paul Tudor Jones In my trading I am always looking for where the capital is flowing. Capital flows where it believes it can either grow or be safe depending on the economic environment. Interest rate policies
The sooner traders learn to carefully manage risk, the better off they will be. So many new traders come in with only the thoughts of profits dancing in their heads. This is equivalent to a football team only focusing on scoring points, and not planning their defense. In trading, you must play both sides
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Trading Is Just Like Gambling. This is the first thing I hear from family, friends, and new people I meet when I tell them I am a trader. What they do not understand, is that I am not the gambler, I am the casino. I trade with the odds in my favor, over and
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In the spirit of Jeff Foxworthy’s: You might be a redneck comedy routine, here is my take on bad traders. You Might be a Bad Trader if: …You are 100% sure about a trade being a winner so you have no need to manage risk. …You go all in on
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How is it possible for swing traders, trend followers, position traders, growth investors, value investors, and even some skilled day traders to all make money in the markets even with what is many times opposite strategies? There are three elements that cause profits in the stock market regardless of strategy. They are: Managing risk with
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If Apple products are still selling and market share still growing, this story is not over. Either $644.00 was the top and all time high for Apple or it goes to $700 as the next logical step. Unless there is a competitor that is stealing market share right now then Apple goes higher. Unless
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Today, as I look past the fireworks and cook outs and think about what this July 4th holiday in America is really all about: independence for the United States from Great Britain. The colonies sought independence from taxation without representation, independence from a King, and freedom for the states to profit from its own labors
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Many unfamiliar with trading, think it is gambling, or that we will lose all our capital on one trade. These folks don’t understand the basic principle of a stop loss. Rather than hold a stock from $100 to $0, a good trader will be out the moment that price confirms that they were wrong. For a day trader,
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40 steps in the trader’s journey from new trader to rich trader: We accumulate information. We learn by buying books, asking questions, going to seminars and researching what really works in trading. We begin to trade with our new-found knowledge. We make profits only to give it back very quickly, realizing that we may need
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In trading as in all other endeavors in life there are people who take full responsibility for their own results and the consequences of their own actions and there are others who blame everybody and everything else for the bad things in their life. There are the winners and
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Before you launch your trading career or continue it, it is important to ensure that your trading method works. This is where the homework comes in. Chart studies, computer back testing, the study of the success and failure rate of chart patterns, how monster stocks performed historically, and eyeballing charts around specific price action
In this video Ed Seykota’s disciple Michael Martin interviews the best selling author of the Market Wizard series of trading books, Jack Schwager. Considered by many the greatest trading books ever written. In Schwager’s newest book “Hedge Fund Market Wizards” he interviews the greatest hedge fund managers in the
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The reason trend traders make money in the long term, is due to supply and demand, and the flow of capital through equities, currencies, commodities, and future contracts. These tend to trend in one direction or the other at different times. Trend traders and trend followers are ready to capitalize on those trends by letting
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