In trading there are things that cause you to win in the long term and things that cause you to even lose your account in the short term. There are ways to manage risk and there are ways to purely gamble. There are ways to think that will make you […]
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In trading we must be able to do two things: manage our winners and manage our losers. If we can’t play both good offense and defense then we will not win over the long term in trading no matter how well we do with one but then fail at the
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For me, author, teacher, and full time trader Alexander Elder really brought my trading together in a way no other author had. He gave me the framework to build my entire trading plan around: THE THREE M’s: Mind (psychology), Method (a trading edge) and Money (risk or money management). But what does each of those
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So your stock has ran up 60 points since you bought it and it is no where near any key moving average or price support so when do we take profits as a trader? We could sell the first day that it closes at the low of the day.
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In trading your belief system will determine whether you win or lose. Your trading method is really determined by your beliefs about the market and how it works. Choose your beliefs carefully. Trading like you are in a cult: When you trade like a cult member you believe in your stock or your trade
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Trend Followers make money in the market not becasue they predict anything but becasue they buy what is going up and they sell what is going down. They discover ways to measure and react to trends based on history. Trend traders identify a trend and enter a trade with predefined risk for the trade and
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This is the second part of a three-part interview series in which trader John Ward sat down with Dr. Christian Kacher, former portfolio manager for William O’Neil + Co., managing director of VirtueOfSelfishInvesting.com, and chief investment strategist for MoKa Investors, LLC. Ward: Going from being a trader who was using O’Neil’s system on his
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Before William O’Neil and Nicolas Darvas there was Jesse Livermore. Livermore was considered to be one of the greatest traders to ever live. He is said to have made over $100 million shorting the 1929 crash, an unthinkable amount in his time. He made and lost millions on several occasions, he was a master of
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Finally what we have been waiting for a chance to buy this decades Google. Facebook has filed to go public under the ticker symbol $FB. This could kick off a whole new mania, Web 2.0. The expectations for this companies earnings could not be greater due to the dominance of
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Successful traders have a plan to win. By carefully putting the odds in their favor for the long term, successful traders will overtake gamblers who rely on random trades and a prayer. If you want to win in any area of life, you must be disciplined, study, and do the hard work. There are no
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