Time and again I heard him say, “Well, this is a bull market, you know!” as though he were giving to you a priceless talisman wrapped up in a million-dollar accident-insurance policy. And, of course, I did not get his meaning. (Mr. Partridge from Reminiscences of a Stock Operator) “They say there are two sides […]
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How do I make money in trading? I seek to profit from market trends. I am a short term trend trader. I seek to be long or short a stock or ETF that is in a trend and has the potential to trend for several days or weeks. I will trade anything that is
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What trips up the vast majorities of traders so they never quite make the transition from new trader to good trader? Not being able to deal with the stress of trading: this is caused primarily from a lack of faith in themselves and or their method. They lack the ability
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What if you could read the principles for success for some of the world’s greatest traders? Well you can, here is how author Jack Schwager summed up the the similarities of the ‘Market Wizards’ he spent years interviewing in his second book. The following is an summarized excerpt from Jack D Schwager’s book,
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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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It is difficult for most traders to trade with headline risk hanging overhead. It simply causes chaos in the markets. Here are five things that are caused by the risk of market moving news coming out at any moment. Headline risk disturbs the normal flow of the markets,
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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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If you want to be a winner trading in the long run there are THREE things that you must do. If you do these three things you can not lose in the long term, if you are missing one you will likely not last very long as an active trader.
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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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The trader that changes survives. Stubborn traders do not make it very long in the markets. The first time they are wrong in a big trade and refuse to cut their losses they are ruined. A perma-bull in a bear market loses money as does a perma-bear in a bull market. The market is the
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