I never understood why traders held losing trades for too long. Our goal is to make money, isn’t it? And yet, we’ve all held onto something negative for too long; a losing trade for a few days, a bad marriage for a decade, smoking for a couple of decades, or any number of other things […]
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On February 27th $GOOGL broke out over the key 200 day moving average. The day finished with a reversal candlestick, so I waited to enter on a pullback to the 200 day, or a continuation above the February 27th close. On March 2nd, $GOOGL gapped over the close and continued up. I went long that
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Chart courtesy of stockcharts.com The long term uptrend is still in place. $SPY pulled back and found support on the previous all time high breakout from late 2014. (This resistance/support line has been on my chart for weeks. It was not drawn this morning). There was a bearish MACD cross on Thursday that was confirmed
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Top Trading Articles: Week of 3/6/15 An Evening With Ed Seykota A NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED INTERVIEW WITH JESSE LIVERMORE Batting Average Is Overrated Improve Your Trading Mindset With This One Concept… The Difference between Trading and Gambling 5 Tips To Get The Pro Risk-Taking Mindset
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Top Trading Tweets: Week 3/5/15 I see a ‘bubble’ in the number of times #CNBC uses the word “bubble”. — traderstewie (@traderstewie) March 5, 2015 Hitting a stop and watching a stock rally definately hurts. Not hitting your stop and watching a stock go down hurts a hell of alot more. — Assad Tannous
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“A stock operator has to fight a lot of expensive enemies within himself.” – Jesse Livermore Jesse Livermore was a pioneer in the trading world. He was one of the very first trend traders, rule based discretionary traders, and traders of pure price action. He was a trail blazer. It was not his methodology that
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Chart Courtesy of Stockcharts.com In late 2000, as the Internet bubble continued to melt from it’s historic 5000 level, I was learning for the first time that markets don’t always rally and bail you out on the long side. Sometimes, pullbacks turn into corrections, bear markets evolve into meltdowns, and bubbles pop. I suffered a
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Chart Courtesy of StockCharts.com $GOOGL has broken out above the 200 day. This is a viable option to buy with correct position sizing with a stop loss placed at a close below the 200 day. Options in $GOOGL are also liquid, giving the trader a way to cap their risks at only the cost
Chart Courtesy of StockCharts.com My February $TQQQ Trade I entered $TQQQ at $97.19 on February 10th in the morning after the gap and go break out over the 50 day sma. This was a momentum buy signal crossing the 50 day, the 5 day ema, and it was a gap up over the previous day’s
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