When you follow your Trading Plan and allow it to be your boss instead of your ego or emotions, you will relax, confident in your knowledge and understanding. No one trade will have a substantial negative impact, because you know that your strategy will win in end. With a disciplined plan, you will be forced […]
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Most traders that fail and leave the markets never learn the lessons that the market was trying to teach them. In all likelihood there were four horsemen that rode through the trader’s account, leaving lost battles, pestilence, famine, and destruction in their wake. What brings this doom upon a trader’s account? It is the
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What trips up the vast majorities of traders so they never quite make the transition from new trader to good trader? Not being able to deal with the stress of trading: this is caused primarily from a lack of faith in themselves and or their method. They lack the ability
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Let me introduce my readers to “Trader Steve” a successful trend follower and blogger from the United Kingdom. He was nice enough to give me an interview for my blog readers. Steve is a trend following trader that pulled off the feat of being profitable in both 2008 as the market was on the
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What if you could read the principles for success for some of the world’s greatest traders? Well you can, here is how author Jack Schwager summed up the the similarities of the ‘Market Wizards’ he spent years interviewing in his second book. The following is an summarized excerpt from Jack D Schwager’s book,
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There are times with charts and markets that it is best to be out of them. With the current risk and volatility I have been trading smaller and smaller and less and less until finally I am only in a few positions for the first time all year. One of the keys to me holding
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It is difficult for most traders to trade with headline risk hanging overhead. It simply causes chaos in the markets. Here are five things that are caused by the risk of market moving news coming out at any moment. Headline risk disturbs the normal flow of the markets,
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This book may be one of the greatest trading books ever published. Jack Schwager set about interviewing some of the world’s top traders in 1988 and the principles these traders were kind enough to share has stood the test of time. These were not one year wonders these traders
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If you want to be a winner trading in the long run there are THREE things that you must do. If you do these three things you can not lose in the long term, if you are missing one you will likely not last very long as an active trader.
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This past year has been just like the chart studies I have done. Using the $SPY as the market filter in late December 2011 we had a break above the 200 day then a retest with support, we had confirmation of an up trend beginning in January 2012 with
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