Structure your position sizes and stop losses in trades so that if you are wrong you will not lose more than 1% of your trading capital on any one trade. Reducing your risk per trade to 2% of trading capital would be a huge improvement for many […]
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“The reason it takes so long to learn to trade successfully is because of all the garbage you you have to sift through.” – Travis James I would highly advise that if a new trader sees a few of these signs
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They could not handle the losses. Some could not handle losing money at all, others chose to not manage risk and the big losses ruined them financially and they had to stop trading. Or the big losses ruined them mentally
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We had a very bullish ‘V’ shaped bounce at the $174 price level right at the 30 RSI level last week that is bullish. We are in striking distance of the $SPY all time high next week. The odds are that we get there next week. This move off the lows has become parabolic
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@SJosephBurns I guess all of the bears are dead now. — FEYE (@30Min_CrossOver) February 14, 2014 @traderstewie buy the ducking fip! — △ (@mnycx) February 14, 2014 I agree completely. Less to focus on = more focus. Better to be master of a few than medicore at many. @SJosephBurns — SystemsTrader95 (@SystemsTrader95) February 14, 2014
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Some of my best trades were when I came into the morning wanting to go short if key support levels were lost. I really thought I was about to get a big short play but ended up going long as the
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Someone on social media suddenly demanding to see a personal P&L to prove a trader is real is just silliness. Real world rules apply on social media. If a perfect stranger suddenly walked up to me and demanded to see
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The 10 Dumbest Things I Used To Do As A Trader I attempted to swing trade the March 2000-2002 melt down that was in a down trend. I went long with in days of the bottom in March of 2009 but was shaken out
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The long term stock market up trend from 2013 is still firmly in place. The last two days moves in $SPY was a very strong bounce off an intra-day bottom at the 30 RSI. A confirmation of a possible short term trend back up to all time highs would be a break and close
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