If someone was ready to start trading and had a basic understanding of trading and the markets and asked for some of my best advice on how they could make money as a trader, this is what I would tell them. Understand that trading is like any other professional endeavor, you will be monetarily rewarded […]
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Ms. Raschke was recognized in Jack Schwager’s critically acclaimed book, The New Market Wizards as one of the best traders in the world. Last posted in Tischendorf Letter Linda Bradford Raschke produces six figure incomes from her trading,
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For the sake of simplicity, all dollar amounts are rounded in this blog. My #1 entry spot was with a break above the 10 day on September 4th, 2013 ($130,000 Position size 50% of account). This was the first day out of 18 that price broke over the 10 day line. In essence, this was
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A big thing that trips up new traders is they get an entry signal at a breakout or a bounce off a key moving average like the 50 day simple moving average but have trouble quantifying how to let the it run if it is a winner or cut the loser short if it goes
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The 7 Expensive Bad Habits of New Traders Trading with no stop losses. You can’t control your profits but you can control and limit your losses with a planned exit. Not having an exit plan can be very expensive when a trend takes off against you and you
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SPY has closed above the 5 day ema for eight straight days. The 50 day was broken through to the upside and has held. The 10 day was broken and price moved with momentum far above the 10 day line. Eight out of nine straight trading days have seen higher highs in SPY. The $VXX
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I have been fortunate to have had a great string of success trading over the past decade from 2003-2013. How I trade today was primarily learned by making mistakes in the late nineties up to 2002. I have always had a knack for getting on the right sides of great trends at the right time.
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If you are randomly trading based on a hunch, with no real underlying system, then your odds of success in the longterm are slim. The systematic trading of a winning methodology is what creates an edge in trading. Consistently trading a robust system or methodology enables you to trade in a way that wins in the
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Each stock is different with how it reacts to support and resistance levels and what what moving average support it gets in an up trend. Facebook has not been an overly powerful momentum stock, the chart looks like one under steady institutional accumulation. Facebook is not a stock that you must buy at break
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