What a week we have had with earnings, many plunges. Even for the markets beloved Apple. When talking heads on CNBC straight talking about “buying opportunities” and “investors” start trying to put an earnings miss into “perspective” we are generally in trouble. What many of the big call option bettors […]
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Their is one huge difference between the winners and the losers in the market. New traders tend to go ‘all in’ on trades they are just sure will be winners. If a new trader wants to be around long enough to be a rich trader they better manage their risk per trade. Here is a
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The biggest question I have received from readers is what are my thoughts on Apple? They have asked my advice on how to play Apple through earnings, my advice “Don’t” instead wait for a trend to emerge after earnings. I captured the move in Apple this year by trading
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Many new traders are taken out of the trading game through bad mental practices. Here are some things that top money managers have shared through interviews and books that may help traders who are making mental mistakes in their trading. Ten Powerful Psychological Traits of the Rich Trader They have the ability to admit they
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“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.” -Albert Einstein “One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height
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If you are just randomly trading what you like with no real underlying system, method or planning then unfortunately your odds of success in the long term are slim. Trading a winning methodology is what creates an edge in trading. Consistently trading a robust system or methodology enables you to trade in a way
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The sooner traders learn to carefully manage risk, the better off they will be. So many new traders come in with only the thoughts of profits dancing in their heads. This is equivalent to a football team only focusing on scoring points, and not planning their defense. In trading, you must play both sides
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Many unfamiliar with trading, think it is gambling, or that we will lose all our capital on one trade. These folks don’t understand the basic principle of a stop loss. Rather than hold a stock from $100 to $0, a good trader will be out the moment that price confirms that they were wrong. For a day trader,
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40 steps in the trader’s journey from new trader to rich trader: We accumulate information. We learn by buying books, asking questions, going to seminars and researching what really works in trading. We begin to trade with our new-found knowledge. We make profits only to give it back very quickly, realizing that we may need
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In trading as in all other endeavors in life there are people who take full responsibility for their own results and the consequences of their own actions and there are others who blame everybody and everything else for the bad things in their life. There are the winners and
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