1. Do not be overly concerned about whipsaws a good trend pays for them all. A whipsaw is when you enter a position but get stopped out quickly when the market reverses opposite to your position. If you are a trend trader this may happen many times in a row in a range bound market. […]
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Trader, Know Thyself. What most determines your success in trading is not your chosen method and not even your risk management. It is you, you will be the one to chose whether you will make it or not. Your perseverance, your faith in your chosen system, you self control in position sizing, whether you can
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Who is Dan Zanger? Dan Zanger is the modern day version of Nicolas Darvas. His mother Elaine loved the stock market and Dan would often watch the business channel with her. One day in 1978 Dan saw a stock explode across the ticker tape at the bottom of the screen hitting $1. He made his
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Ed Seykota is a legend in the trading world. His ability to produce consistent returns for decades, and his masterful growth of his client’s accounts has earned him a place of distinction. But who inspired this Market Wizard’s trading methods? Richard Donchian Richard Donchian didn’t begin his successful trend following system until the age of
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As we enter the half way point of the week of the European summit and the market struggles to find a direction we need to maintain our discipline and follow our trading plan and trade our method. We should not start trading randomly if the markets start to become confusing, stick to your proven plan
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If you want to win in trading you must have an edge. What is your edge? Trading Method Edge: You first have to have a method with a positive expectancy. This is not necessarily just a winning percentage. You simple want to win more money when you are right than you lose when you are
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Who is Nicolas Darvas? Who is this guy that even William J. O’ Neil founder of ‘Investor’s Business Daily’ says his book is recommended reading for anyone wanting to learn to trade stocks? Darvas first became interested in the stock market in 1952 when he received some mining stock in exchange for performing in a
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Is Reminiscences of a Stock Operator really the greatest trading book ever written? It was ranked #15 on ‘Fortune’s 75 ‘The Smartest Books We Know’, and Alan Greenspan said it is “a font of investing wisdom.” The majority of top trading book lists name it as recommended reading, and many great traders credit it as
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At 70, Paul Tudor Jones is a self made billionaire with a net worth of $8.1 billion and is ranked as the 346th richest person in the world, he knows exactly how to trade the biggest money for the biggest returns. One of Jones’ earliest and major successes was anticipating and trading through Black Monday
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For a moment let’s put aside our personal opinions about George Soros and his politics and just look at what he has to say about how to trade successfully. On September 16, 1992 – later dubbed “Black Wednesday” — the day the British government abandoned the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM), and the pound
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