Ten Golden Trading Rules That Can Help New Traders Never add too a losing trade. In adding to a losing trade you are already wrong but now become more wrong with a bigger trading size. Adding to losers makes you a counter trend trader that usually ends badly. Never lose more than 1% to […]
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Most of the best traders I have read about and know of personally do not predict what will happen they trade what is happening. New traders always want to predict, they want to argue about their beliefs and why something must happen or will happen. Most rich traders are rich because they are
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$SPY was able to trade above the 10 day for 4 straight days which was previous resistance. For six days the 100 day held as support before $SPY made a run for the 50 day. For Four straight days $SPY has made higher highs each day versus the previous day. Last week $SPY successfully
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In trading, the money is not made in the entry, it is in the exit. The art of the exit is crucial to a trader’s success in the markets. Profits can disappear if you do not take them at the right time, and small losses can become huge losses if you do not cut them
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“Fish see the bait, but not the hook; men see the profit, but not the peril.“ -Chinese proverb Options are both one of the greatest wealth building tools ever created and a quick way to lose all your trading capital if you over leverage and disregard the odds of your trade. Options can literally
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A lot of trading is counter intuitive when it comes to price action. Also a lot of things that new traders see leads them to believe that there is some magic short cut to success. If trading was really as easy as so many subscription services try to sell it as then there
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Over the past few years, I have seen many people pass away that I knew well that were still only in their 40′ s or 50’s. It has been almost 8 years since one of my favorite Facebook friends passed away suddenly. The thing I have come to realize after having my 40th birthday, is that
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The weakest link to any trading strategy is the trader that is executing it. It is usually the mental and emotional errors of the trader that cause 90% of traders to lose money. Trading success is determined more by the mindset of the trader, than their skills with math, economics, or macro knowledge. The
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Before there was the U.S Dollar acting as the world’s reserve currency there was an almost universally accepted form of money since the beginning of recorded history: GOLD. Paper currencies were originally pegged to gold to give them value. The bearer of the originally paper currencies could exchange it for precious metals, that
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SPY has closed below the 10 day sma for 16 straight days now. I prefer to play the long side when we are trading above the 10 day sma. I could take a long position with a close above this 10 day line. We may get this on Tuesday with the looks of
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