There are times with charts and markets that it is best to be out of them. With the current risk and volatility I have been trading smaller and smaller and less and less until finally I am only in a few positions for the first time all year. One of the keys to me holding […]
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This book may be one of the greatest trading books ever published. Jack Schwager set about interviewing some of the world’s top traders in 1988 and the principles these traders were kind enough to share has stood the test of time. These were not one year wonders these traders
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The only place luck has in trading is that you will hopefully be on the right side of unexpected moves due to surprises. In trading you should trade in such a way that good luck will benefit you and bad luck will not destroy you. In my trading luck has
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With real money on the line, a new trader will discover that live trading is not the same as books or simulated trading. One of the top three things that will determine the success of a trader is the trader’s psychology. The weakest part of any trading plan is the trader himself. Stress can knock a
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In the markets there are many different types of traders and many motivations that drive them. Everyone has heard of different types of traders based on their trading method: Swing Traders, Day Traders, Momentum Traders, etc. But what about different types of traders based on their psychology, their very purpose?
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Trading is really not as much of a numbers game as it is a mind game. Winning or losing in the long term will come down to whether you quit or keep going on your trading journey. Trading is not for everyone, there is no easy money in the markets. You will fight for
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In trading fear can be good or bad, if you let fear control you it is bad if you control fear it can cause you to have positive behaviors. Here are the proper uses of fear in trading. GOOD FEAR Be afraid of losing more than 1% of your
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In trading most new traders allow hope and fear to dictate their trading. They have a losing trade and instead of selling it and getting out they instead hope it will come back to even allowing the loss to grow. Another error for new traders is that when they have
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Trading is not all about just stock picking, it is not just about a winning system. Yes, first you have to understand how to trade and put the odds in your favor of winning, but that is not enough. You must also add in risk management so when you lose ten times in a
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While all the Apple bulls where having a celebration party on the move back to $610 today I could not help but wonder if they rode this stock from $644 to $555 and were just celebrating getting back to where they could have gotten out at weeks ago. My
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