Marketlifetrading.com and the free trading course
About a year ago, my friend Tom and I sat down and talked about a new venture. At the time, I was very focused on creating a P&L tracker/journal piece of software that could help people understand what was going on in their trading. As Tom was building that piece...
10000 hours, trading, and what really matters
This is the third, and last, post in a series of three posts that started by looking at the 10,000 hour fallacy and the importance of deliberate practice. Those posts were broad in scope, and some of you asked how to related them specifically to trading and financial...
Building expertise: beyond the 10,000 hours
This post is a followup to my recent post which looked at Malcolm Gladwell’s 10,000 hour fallacy. That post focused on what is wrong with pop science soundbites. This post is different: today, I’m going to tell what you can do to work toward...
There is no 10,000 hour rule
Have you ever heard someone say they are “working toward their 10,000 hours?” I’m sure everyone reading this has heard of the “10,000 hour rule”: the idea, drawn from Malcolm Gladwell’s bestselling book Outliers, that it takes...
Thinking two steps ahead
It’s easy to understand how there might be a pattern in the market that shows we have an edge or a reason to put on a trade. Maybe some combination of factors or patterns shows us that a market is more likely to go up over a certain time period, so we buy it....
Sector movements
Here’s a perspective on recent sector action with a longer-term context. I find movements on this type of chart can give good insight into flows and developing relative...
MarketLife Ep 41 – Randomness: why it matters and how to understand it
I received a good question from a listener, Alex: I was talking to a friend of mine (who is a physicist). ” I presented him with some market statistics that seem to hold true in many markets, e.g. that the market has only a low probability to hit yesterday’s...
MarketLife Ep 40 – What’s Wrong with Tips?
Just a quick podcast here to share some thoughts and ideas about tips–what’s wrong with stock tips? Why is it a bad idea to take trading tips from social media? What can you better? How can you take ideas and give yourself the best chance of success? The...
MarketLife Ep 39 – What’s Luck Got to Do with It?
I received a great question from Jason: Mr Grimes, I need to ask you something. I have been watching your videos and I’m a little confused about one thing. On one of your examples, you showed a diagram of a collection of people making I believe 250 trades with a...
MarketLife Ep 38: Using stock screens
In this podcast, I look at some ideas for using stock screens well and successfully. We start by considering all of the possibilities and screens that are available, narrowing them down to the types that might truly help your trading. Going through a few points, we...
Marketlife Ep 37 – How to Get Confidence and Other Readers’ Questions
In this podcast, I answer a few reader questions: From Tom: I’m definitely not a beginner. I consider myself intermediate, but always suffered from “I know nothing. Other market participants know more or know better” inferior-type thinking. How does...
Marketlife Ep 36 – How to Fix Your Trading
In this podcast, I cover a step by step plan that I’ve found to be very effective in fixing the problems traders face. Too many times, people waste time on trading plans that do not work. Too many times, traders do not understand their edge, or even know if they...
Waverly Advisors
We help people trade and invest. We do this by understanding what drives financial markets—where they’ve been and where they are most likely to go in the future..
The Course
Whether you are just starting your journey or trade professionally, there is something here for you. Experience the acclaimed (and completely free) comprehensive trading course designed by Adam H Grimes.
Reading List
A trader’s education should be both broad and deep. This reading list will help you build a strong foundation from accounting to basic market knowledge to the intimate workings of financial markets.
The Art and Science
“There are so many trading books our there and only a small percentage that are really and truly worth reading. This is one.” – Mark Bray