This is a Guest Post by AK of Fallible AK has been an analyst at long/short equity investment firms, global macro funds, and corporate economics departments. He co-founded Macro Ops and is the host of Fallible. Do you understand the impact the Federal Reserve has on markets and your money? Most people don’t. And they’re left playing a […]
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This is a Guest Post by Alex @MacroOps which was posted originally here Another Lesson In Position Sizing From The Volpocalypse of 2018 and is reposted here with permission. Most famous fund failures have leverage at their core. That’s the true culprit for disaster — not the actual trade ideas. Bad position sizing kills. Long
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This is a guest post by Mike Semlitsch who is a trader and software developer with a proven track record of helping novice and intermediate traders succeed in trading the financial markets. Driven by a passion to help others, he takes pride in creating and providing the best trading systems and indicators possible. As the
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“There’s a million ways to make money in the markets, unfortunately they’re all very difficult to find.” – Jack Schwager Profitability in the financial markets is based on math not predictions and opinions. Here are the ten mathematical paths to profitability: Have a high winning percent where your winning trades and losing trades are similar
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The last two weeks has had very fast price action in both directions. Moves that use to take weeks now takes days. Last week was up on good volume comparative to normal daily volume. Last week $SPY recovered from one of the quickest corrections in history as price closed back over all key moving averages.
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“If trading (or any other job or endeavor) is a source of anxiety, fear, frustration, depression, or anger, something is wrong—even if you are successful in a conventional sense.” – Jack D. Schwager Anger is an emotion that is a great tool for protecting our boundaries and safety. Anger is the internal bodyguard that allows
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Have written goals so you know what you want to accomplish and where you want to go. Let your life be guided by internal principles not external circumstances. Never take criticism from someone not doing better than you are. What the hell do they know? Internet trolls are losers, always ignore them. Never waste any
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This is a Guest Post by David Bergstrom, he is on twitter @dburgh he is the guy behind the Build Alpha software. He has spent many years researching, building, testing, and implementing market making and trading strategies for a high frequency trading firm, a handful of CTAs, individual clients, registered money managers, and even aspiring retail traders. His website
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This is a YouTube video lesson by Rayner Teo from TradingWithRayner.com.
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10 Reasons moving averages work as trading tools. Moving averages filter trends in different timeframes. Moving averages can create entry signals at the beginning of a trend. They can be used as exit signals when price dips below them. Moving averages can be used as trailing stops so you can exit with profits when a
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