Stop breaking your trading rules. Discipline is an edge. Stop trading such big position sizes. Risk management and self control is an edge. Stop trying to predict what will happen next and learn how to react to what is happening. Stop worrying about other’s trades and trade your own system. Stop thinking every dip will […]
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One of my all time favorite movies is Moneyball featuring Brad Pitt. What’s not to love? The movie is about how the general manager Billy Bean of the Oakland A’s turns his club on it’s head by using quantified principles to maximize the smaller budget that his team had to work with higher scoring output. Billy Bean hired
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This is a Guest Post by Michael Battat. He is on twitter @mbat31 10 Qualities That Successful Traders Have And You Need In tough times like 2016, traders often feel as though things can never go their way. This feeling typifies how stock trading can be incredibly emotional. We all want to make money, and
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This is a guest post by Francois Normandeau This is a fictional story. Tom’s diary. Year 1: I decided to become a trader. I want to get rich quickly and easily and retire next year. I always liked catamarans and maybe I can date models. Year 2: Since I decided to become a trader, I
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Beware of Forex bucket shops that pretend to be brokers but really trade against you. Many times killing accounts with big bid/ask spreads. If you see a ‘broker’ or trading service using attractive female photos to push some service off on traders stay away. Trading newsletter writers that don’t even trade. They issue a lot
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There are two very different types of traders, one that wins and one that whines. Whiners hardly ever win and winners rarely whine. Trading is a tough business and you have to be able to keep the right mind set to get you through the rough spots. When the markets start trying to knock you off your trading plan and
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Do you still have days when you are 100% sure about a trade. You just can’t lose, the stock that is dropping was a real buy and it has already fallen a great deal so it could not possibly fall any farther. Can it? So you wait and then plunge in, you can’t lose so why
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Traders do not make money on every trade, most don’t even make money on half their trades. It is not like other careers, jobs, or hobbies where you learn how to do something then simply work hard and then get paid. A trader in the financial markets pursuit of profits is more like the life of
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This is a top notch book on the psychology of trading. It directs the reader to the core of what it takes to maintain the right mindset as a trader. Traders share the same stressors that entrepreneurs have and must manage the mind first before the money can really flow. A trader must continue to
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“The Holy Grail is not what you would expect it to be. It is something that is different for each person. It’s a hidden secret you have to discover for yourself but it is obvious once it is realized.”- David Mobley, Sr. Most new traders go on a quest for “The Holy Grail” of trading.
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