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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Before you launch your trading career or continue it, it is important to ensure that your trading method works. This is where the homework comes in. Chart studies, computer back testing, the study of the success and failure rate of chart patterns, how monster stocks performed historically, and eyeballing charts around specific price action
For 36 trading days we have been below the $136 price in the SPY, there have been NO buyers above this level, only sellers waiting to take profits. Our first bounce off support after going into a down trend was at the 200 day moving average, not much time for
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The hardest thing about trading is not the math, the method, or picking the right stock, currency, commodity, or futures contract. The most difficult thing about trading is dealing with the emotions that arise with trading itself. From the stress of actually entering a trade, to the fear of losing the paper profits that you
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After the hundreds of trading books I have read and spending thirteen years actively managing my accounts I still consider Jack Schwagers Market Wizards Series the best of the best. Why? His trading books are not based on theories, opinions, predictions, or beliefs, he goes down a completely different path.
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The very first rule we live by is: Never risk more than 1% of total equity on any trade. -Larry Hite (Market Wizard) I try very hard not to risk more than 1% of my portfolio on a single trade. –Bruce Kovnar, (Market Wizard) One of simplest lessons that a trader can learn to ensure long term
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They pursue realistic goals as their returns. They take decisive and immediate action when their buy or sell signal is hit. They focus on winning trades and not quantity of trades. They make logical, informed trading decisions within their system, based on the probabilities. They avoid the trap of trying to make perfect trades, and
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Ever have that day when you were a new trader and you were 100% sure about a trade. You just could not lose, the stock was a real buy it had already fallen a great deal and it could not possibly fall any farther. So you waited and then plunged in, you couldn’t
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Two of the biggest obstacles in trading is managing risk and using a winning method. However, even if you control your risk on every trade and have a methodology that is a winner in the long term you can still
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With the powerful reversal off the $SPY 200 day and then the comeback after the reversal day I am ready to go long. The European Union headline risk was hanging over the market causing a lot of uncertainty and confusion but with the loan to the Spanish banks approved much of this will
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