MarketLife Ep 10 – Tuning out negativity and fear
In this episode: Tony C asks: How to tune out negativity and fear from the media? Understand the nature of media-driven information: It's constant and emotionally charged. The media has…
Could stocks be ready to break out? What’s your plan?
Group-think is a problem in markets; so many smart people look at the same (pretty limited) set of information, so it's easy to understand why many people come to similar…
Ready to rumble? Is the US Dollar set for another breakout?
To trade or invest successfully, we have to think one step ahead of the market, but we have to discipline ourselves not to act early. We also must strike a…
Slippage? Yes, please.
Sometimes, the thing you're afraid of turns out to be not so bad. Slippage is one of those things: as system developers, we know it will eat into our backtested…
Are you losing when you should be winning? Here’s something you might be missing.
Most people think about where to get into and out of positions. Most traders know how important it is to follow their rules, and most traders are always working toward…
Gold: a big drop in the big picture?
I thought it might be useful to step back and take a look at gold from a much longer-term perspective. First, the monthly chart (difference back-adjusted continuous futures): The first…
MarketLife Ep 9 – Expectations make all the difference
The second part of a two-part miniseries on what to expect when you're learning how to trade. Highlights from this episode include: What do you need to give yourself the…
Efficient Markets? Ask trapped traders what they think!
One of the age-old questions is "why should any pattern work?" In this case, we're not simply talking about patterns on charts, but we could ask the same question of…
US Dollar trend update… next steps
Just a quick followup to this post, in which I suggested the US Dollar might be set for a fakeout rally (that has happened) that might fail into a sharp…
Coming soon…
Just a short note here as we head into the holiday weekend. I want to share a few updates and tell you about about some exciting new things that are…
Stop! Don’t make that trade…
So you're a trader, huh? (Or investor... if you think of yourself as an investor, just read "invest" instead of "trade"; this message is for you too!) If you are…
MarketLife Ep 8 – The Trader’s Journey (part 1 of 2)
This episode of MarketLife looks at some of the things that stand between beginning traders and success. What can you do to make your chances better? What are the challenges…
Watch for a US Dollar fakeout
Markets move in alternating waves of with-trend strength (or weakness) interspersed with moves against the trend. We call these moves pullbacks or consolidations, and they create some of the most…
Dealing with setbacks
If you are an individual self-directed trader, expect setbacks and failures, especially in the first two years. Expect that your triumphs may be promptly followed by dramatic failures, that you…
MarketLife Ep 7 – Is trading ethical?
This episode of MarketLife answers a reader question: I have extracted the following from chapter 3 of Napoleon Hill's Think and grow rich. It is part 5 of the Self…
What happens after a big down day in stocks?
So the stock market sold off hard yesterday. If you were living under a big enough rock you might have missed it, but now the doom and gloomers, the technicians…
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