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What to do when your stop is hit?

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:12/11/2014
  • Post category:Individual Traders/Institutional Managers/Traders/Trader Development

This could, perhaps, be the shortest blog post ever. I could simply answer the question with: follow your rules. Get out. But let's dig a little deeper. Before we really…

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The most important thing you need to know about commodities

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:12/10/2014
  • Post category:Individual Traders/Institutional Managers/Traders/Market Math

The marketplace is constantly evolving. One of the biggest changes over the past decade is the proliferation of Exchange Traded Products (ETPs) that allow stock traders to trade commodities (and…

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5 ways to improve your trading today

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:12/09/2014
  • Post category:General Comments/Individual Traders/Trader Development

Markets are complicated. Market analysis is complicated. Developing a trading system certainly can be complicated. But trading cannot be complicated. The act of placing trades and evaluating results must be…

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The Trader’s Journey: The Hero’s Journey

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:12/04/2014
  • Post category:Individual Traders/Psychology/Trader Development

This post was originally published on See It Market as part of the Market Masters series. The original post can be found here.] I am a quantitative-discretionary trader. I have…

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Discretionary and consistent? How?

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:11/24/2014
  • Post category:Individual Traders/Institutional Managers/Traders/Trader Development

I've been asked a few variations of the same interesting question recently. Here are a few examples: The one thing I keep struggling with is finding an edge I can…

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Technical tools for everyone

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:11/17/2014
  • Post category:Individual Traders/Institutional Managers/Traders

If you read much of my work, you will begin to see that applying technical tools takes work; it takes a lot of time and experience to know how to…

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Why should you be able to make money?

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:10/31/2014
  • Post category:General Comments/Individual Traders/Trader Development

This is an obvious issue, but one that is often ignored. The argument of many academics is that you can’t make money trading; your best bet is to put your…

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Where the wild things are? No, where the open is.

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:10/10/2014
  • Post category:Individual Traders/Institutional Managers/Traders/Market Math/Technical Patterns

The open, in many ways, is the most important price of the day; action off the open can often define the character of the entire session and even have implications…

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Three great ways to lose money

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:09/30/2014
  • Post category:General Comments/Individual Traders/Trader Development

There must be a thousand ways to lose money trading, and most of them are bad ways. Many traders, especially newer traders, are paralyzed by fear of loss. Many traders…

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Five ways to awaken intuition in trading

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:09/12/2014
  • Post category:General Comments/Individual Traders/Institutional Managers/Traders/Psychology/Trader Development

This post continues the discussion on finding the Art in technical analysis. Read that first, and also this post, on bringing broad intuition into your experience. For quantitatively-inclined traders (such…

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Current market overview: weekly webinar

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:09/11/2014
  • Post category:Chart of the Day/Individual Traders/Institutional Managers/Traders

This is an important time in global markets. Equities are at a potentially important inflection, and short term noise may be misleading many players. Currencies have had some fantastic moves,…

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Reader question: why do patterns work?

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:09/11/2014
  • Post category:Individual Traders/Pullback/Readers Questions

A really interesting discussion developed in the comments to this post on pullbacks. Since you're capable of clicking the link and reading the comments, I won't copy the whole discussion…

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Where is the Art?

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:08/27/2014
  • Post category:General Comments/Individual Traders/Institutional Managers/Traders

[dc]M[/dc]uch of my writing here has focused on quantitative tools and ways to look at data. I have called for higher standards and have questioned many of the established tools…

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Charts can be hazardous to your health

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:08/18/2014
  • Post category:Individual Traders/Trend Termination

[dc]I[/dc]'ve seen a lot of charts floating around talking about the "big reversal" in grains, and specifically corn. I think there are a few important lessons here, so allow me…

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And this little piggie… had an exit plan.

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:08/12/2014
  • Post category:Individual Traders/Institutional Managers/Traders/Trader Development

[dc]M[/dc]any years ago, a friend of mine shared an encounter he had with a successful investing club. This club was not like many of the others—they didn’t pool their money…

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Keys to Mastery

  • Post author:AdamHGrimes
  • Post published:08/04/2014
  • Post category:General Comments/Individual Traders/Trader Development

[dc]I[/dc]n a post last week, I talked a little bit about the kind of commitment and emotional charge that I believe it takes to truly excel in any field. Whether…

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