Can’t sleep? Check your lights
I’ve talked with many traders who struggle from insomnia or other sleep disruptions. There could be many reasons for this. Some, such as the emotional pressures of trading, are obvious,…
Five reasons you lose
In trading and investing, there are good losses and bad losses. This post is about the bad losses, but let’s begin by touching on the good losses. A good loss…
A little course correction, and a new direction
I want to share a few more personal thoughts with you today, to look at where this blog and my work has been, and to talk about some exciting new…
The importance of ritual
I spent much of the last two weeks or so traveling through the south west of France (think in the direction of Toulouse, toward Spain), and had a chance to…
Writing prompts: what is an edge in trading?
I received an interesting email from a friend who is doing a survey. In that email, he asked a few questions about trading. As I thought about these, I decided…
Wins live in the land of loss
I'm sitting here at my desk looking out the window. On my desk is a (perfectly normal and fair) coin that I had been flipping a while. Question: can you…
Coming soon…
I just wanted to take a few minutes here at the end of the week and share some things I'm working on. Some of these things you will see soon,…
Evaluating a trade edge: is it good or not?
This will be the last post in a short series in which we have looked at ways to quantify and to understand a trading edge. This series was motivated by…
Trendlines 101
I thought it might be useful, since most markets are about as exciting as drying paint right now, to take a few steps back and consider some basic tools that…
Patience… patience
An interesting debate emerged in the comments to one of my posts. In the post, I had suggested the discipline was the most important thing; a reader countered that patience…
Where are markets going next? My current thinking and positioning
I appreciate the opportunity to share with you, my readers, here on this blog. Over the years I've learned a lot from you, have had you challenge my thinking in…
Reader question: can’t hold on to winners?
i received a great question from Glenn, which I'll summarize and paraphrase below: Adam, I'm doing many things right in my trading, but I struggle with one thing: I get…
Reader question: how to not blow yourself up. Pattern interrupts can help.
Reader Steve asks a good question: Hi. I know that most of what you talk about isn't really about daytrading, but I am a daytrader and I have a question.…
Reader question: what’s wrong with Fibonacci?
Matt asked a question that I sat on for quite a while. I wasn't sure how to write a reasonably concise answer to a good question, but I'll try today.…
Patterns within patterns
One of the problems swing traders in stocks face is correlation; the sad reality is that stocks mostly move together, and trades in stocks mostly win and lose together. If…
First steps in Python for traders
I've written a bit on the difference between high and low level programming languages, and on why I think Python is the right choice for many traders today. In this…
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