“I think it was a long step forward in my trading education when I realized at last that when old Mr Partridge kept on telling other customers, “Well, you know this is a bull market!” he really meant to tell them that the big money was not in the individual fluctuations but in the […]
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Trading is not all fun and games. We do not make money on every trade. It is not like other careers or jobs where you work and then get paid. Our pursuit is more like the life of an entrepreneur. Our idea may work or it may not. The
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Do you use moving averages in your trading? If not, you are missing one of the very best indicators. Moving averages are powerful because they give traders a view of the market’s or stock’s trend in the moment. Including its volatility, along with possible
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On this Labor Day when many are off work for a paid holiday I am working, looking at charts, planning, thinking and reading. Pondering what Tuesday trading may bring. Trading is NOT the path to easy money nor free money. Trading is work and a profession like any other, traders
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You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.” -Babe Ruth You can read trading books until you are blurry-eyed, you can spend thousands of dollars on seminars, you can try to get successful traders to give you the secret sauce of trading and the holy grail. But, in the end it is simply
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Discretionary Traders Vs Systematic Traders In the classic Star Trek movies and television show Captain Kirk believed in his abilities to make the best decisions in the circumstances he found himself in. Mr. Spock contrasted against Kirk’s leadership style by using logic and reason along with probabilities of success to make the best
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Apple is at $610 you believe it will go to $680 in a month, instead of buying at $610 you want to buy on a pullback to $600, the pull back never comes and you just watch it go to $680 with no position. Apple is at $675 and you
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If you are a longer term trend follower and there is a long term trend, then you make money. If you are a shorter term trend follower and their is a trend in your trade you make money. Swing traders make money in range bound markets. Value investors make
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“There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.” ~Warren Buffett “The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.” -Warren Buffett The biggest thing that trips up many new traders and even more experienced and
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Weekly options are very powerful tools in the hands of a trader that understands them but can do serious damage in the account of a trader that uses them to gamble. Weekly options can be great trading tools if the position size is right and they are used inside of a quantifiable trading system that is
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