Despite our best efforts to avoid it, there is no denying that there is an emotional rollercoaster that traders ride thanks to the market cycles. Traders want to maximize gains and minimize losses. However, it is easier said than done especially when factors like emotions come to play. And because lifeless robots do not run…
Trading Excellenceis mundane. Superlative performance is really a confluence of dozens of small skills or activities, each one learned or stumbled upon, which have been carefully drilled into habit and then fitted together in a synthesized whole. There is nothing extraordinary or superhuman in any one of those single actions; only the fact that they are done consistently, correctly,…
As professional traders most of the hard work is done when the market is closed. We go over our trades, review them in detail and find the spots where we can improve,or where we might have gone wrong. Goal is to improve on your strengths and cut our mistakes. Over time as you eliminate your…
We get a lot of emails every week on the topic of “ leverage “ with that being said we decided we would go into a little bit of detail on how you can use leverage and how professional traders do. Retail traders starting off should learn more about leverage before they start using it….
Many fledgling day traders come to me and they’re shaking in their boots. They hear horror stories about traders that fail — these traders had totally crashed and burned, losing all of their money and ended up completely broke. I tell them two things: One: Some traders do fail and that’s simply a fact of…
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As is the case in any business, there are many things to consider and oversee so that your business will flourish. It’s the goal of all businesses to be efficient and ultimately make as much money as possible. Nowhere is this truer than in the trading industry. Even though the cost of entry into the…
There are various opinions about the trading business. Many of which are not exactly positive. So, what’s the real deal…Why are people so negative towards it and why is it that so many traders don’t make it? Is the business really impossibly rigged against us? The simple answer is NO. In fact, trading is the…
Many clients find Live Traders and are amazed at home simple learning to trade can be. Is there a lot of information to digest? Does it take a lot of effort and commitment? The answer to both of those questions is a very serious “yes.” However, starting down your path to becoming a true trader…
You can ask any stock trader and they’ll tell you that sometimes they wish they could see the future. Not just a prediction of the future — no, they want the true power of future sight, whether through a crystal ball or mental visions of what the future holds.Unfortunately, such things are impossible. Stock traders…
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We’ve all been there. Trade 1 stops out, trade 2 stops out and maybe even trade 3 stops out. Not exactly the way you had envisioned the day going before the market opened. But the truth is, down days are part of the business. Don’t ever let someone tell you they ‘never’ lose or ‘never’…
