Where do you begin when you want to start trading the markets? I believe homework is crucial, reading, chart studies, historical prices, risk management, trader psychology, learning from the success stories and professional managers are all key areas to cover. Below are links to some great interviews by top traders that explain their principles of […]
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In Fullerton’s, there were the usual crowd. All grades! Well, there was one old chap who was not like the others. To begin with, he was a much older man. Another thing was that he never volunteered advice and never bragged of his winnings. He was a great hand for listening very attentively to the
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This is a great book on trading because it does not examine just one topic in trading it brings together all the areas of trading one must master in the markets and shows the reader how to turn it into a complete trading system. This book points out that technical
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At some point traders should have that break through day where they are tired of losing and ready to start making money. There should be a day where eyes are opened that what we were doing was just not working. We are ready for change, we are ready to listen, and learn. We
That Day The New Trader Wakes Up Looks Like This….. Read More »
Friday was one of the wildest days I have seen in a very long time, it was hard to determine which head fake was the real move even into the last hour traders were wondering if we would roll over. I have been bearish in recent weeks playing puts off the 50 day line in
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Learning to trade is a process, and it is same for everyone. The traders that think they are exceptions to the process of trading education generally learn the hard way that they confuse bull markets for genius or market conditions for skills. It is easy to lose or make money in the markets,
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Source Article: Expectancy Positive Expectancy: A system (or game) that will make money over the long term if played at a risk level that is sufficiently low. It also means that the mean R-value of a distribution of R multiples is a positive number. If you’ve read any of Dr. Tharp’s books, you know by
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Yes, the vast majority of traders are gamblers, maybe the majority of market participants are in fact gamblers. The traders that are gamblers trade with no plan and without understanding the odds are stacked against them. Whether it is buying far out of the money options with no method for profitability or randomly chasing stocks
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In my trading career I do not remember ever seeing this many doji on any given chart. It is very odd that the open and close be so close to each other day after day after day with all the real movement happening in the post market and pre-market. The biggest clues are the two
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Dojis, dojis, every where. Truly some strange price action last week in the major S&P 500 index. I bought SPY puts when the price was struggling at the 50 day late Friday in the last 45 minutes and was instantly questioned and criticized on twitter for doing that on a bullish candle, minutes later
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