A draw down is a normal occurrence for a trader. Swing traders experience them in trending markets, trend traders experience them in choppy markets, day traders experience them in markets that whip saw violently, and growth investors experience them in bear markets and corrections. the key to surviving them […]
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Charts are my best mentors and moving averages are my best teachers. Entering into Monday Morning I am long Apple with an in the money $610 strike weekly call option but I am hedged with an out of the money $620 weekly put. Like me many traders see indecision
$AAPL My Indicators & My Trading Plan Read More »
Every new trader loves to focus on entries, hot stocks, what to buy, what stock might double, and how long they want to hold their stock. Stops are a very neglected subject with new traders, the best shot many new traders give to an exit strategy is either a price target or a quick scalp
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Here is a great article that appeared in Investor’s Business Daily discussing the historical limits Apple can get above the 200 day moving average before a correction. Interesting reading but it may or may not help with your specific trading style, for information purposes only. CLICK ON YELLOW HIGHLIGHTS IN
The 200 day $AAPL Moving Average & When High Prices are Too High Read More »
The market is at a cross roads, we are either at the bottom of a bull market or the beginning of a bear market. The up trend is still technically in place but the bears are fighting to bring us into an official down trend. Below or five key price levels
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Like in the movie ‘Fight Club’ where there was a secret group of ‘fighters’ that loved what they did there is also a group of ‘traders’ in the market that love what they do so much that they win. In the markets there is a club of traders that make
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One of the most frustrating things a trader can experience is being dead on right about a trade, taking it, BUT.. still losing money! How can this be? This can happen in five different ways, each of the first four contain a lesson for better planning the fifth way
5 Ways To Be Right About a Trade BUT… Still Lose Money. Read More »
“Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish.” -Steve Jobs Is the Apple monster stock run of the century over? Has the Fox Conn labor problems and the Samsung Galaxy 3 finished off the once mighty Apple? Without Steve Jobs is it just over, due to no innovation and a decline? Or is this
How Far Will The Apple Fall From The Tree? My Entry Plan. Read More »
“If you diversify, control your risk, and go with the trend, it just has to work.” -Larry Hite. We often hear of trading with an edge, but how do we know for sure we have an edge? How do we know that the odds are in our favor, and that the more we trade,
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This blog post is an excerpt from my book New Trader, Rich Trader. “The funny thing is that the principles you have been teaching me for trading success have also been helping me in other areas of my life. I think much more clearly about many parts of my life now. My journal has expanded