Category Archives: Trading Education

What is the probability of ..

By | June 18, 2014 3:51 pm

A sideways market? A trending market? A trend continuing; A trend reversal? Getting stopped out of a trade? Winning a trade? Breaking even? Losing a trade? All questions that need to be answered if you are to have confidence in your trading system.  For it is confidence that allows you to profit from the markets. Ridiculous notion? … Read More »

Ways to Reduce Trading Stress

By | June 14, 2014 12:19 pm

Trading offers a wide world of opportunities to traders new and experienced alike. It’s unfortunate, but trading profitably with any level of consistency often takes time and effort for a trader to develop their approach. Along the way are many hurdles and perhaps even more unfortunately, quite a few of those hurdles can be self-imposed.… Read More »

How Traders should plan trades

By | June 11, 2014 4:15 pm

A trader must have quantified entry signals that tell them when to enter where the probabilities of success are in their favor of being profitable.   A trader must build a robust trading system with a positive expectation model of a high winning percent of trades or one that will have bigger wins than losses… Read More »

A common trait you’ll see among the world’s best investors

By | June 6, 2014 4:35 pm

In 1968, a self-described “gun-slinging nitwit,” fresh out of Harvard Business School, Grantham played the go-go market at its peak. By 1970, he had lost all of his money. “I like to say I got wiped out before anyone else knew the bear market started,” Grantham recalled years later. Think about that. The man who… Read More »