Trading with Head and Heart: Balancing Strategy and Psychology
I received an email from a reader named Doug, about my recent blog post: “…I'm definitely a skeptic with the psychology portion of trading - but as a futures day-trader,…
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Reader Question: What is Momentum?
Here’s a good question from a reader, Said: “I know this is a very basic question, but what is momentum? I see people use it and I am not sure…
The right mindset: perspective from a newbie
In our Facebook group, Paul made this post: Hi all, I am a newbie and this post is directed at people like me and not the more experienced traders out…
Reader question: How do I measure liquidity?
A reader, Mohammad asks: I see you mentioning liquidity or a market being too thin to trade. I’m not sure what this means or how to measure liquidity. Please help.…
Reader question: how can it be random?
I received a good question from Gareth this morning: "Your book is one of my top sources in trading literature, though there are some ideas that I find it difficult…
What to do with missed profit targets?
A trader I work with, Glenn, sent me this note: Adam, I think this would be an excellent blog post because when it happens it is so frustrating. I got…
Reader question: what am I missing?
A reader, Denys, sent me a question this week: Dear Adam, . In short, i've been doing some trading for about a year and read dozens of different books and…
Reader question: what do I do when I miss the move?
Dimitar sent a question, and I bet he’s not the only trader who struggles with this: Hi Adam, I am part time private Trader. I read regularly your blog articles…
Reader question: what to do about missing trades?
I got a good question from a reader, Eric: Adam, can you please help me? I am going crazy because I feel I am missing the best and biggest trades.…
Reader question: Multiple timeframes?
Matt asks: Hi Adam, I have a question regarding trading timeframes. Do you have multiple trading timeframes or do you tend to trade one? For example, scanning the daily charts…
Reader question: How to handle exits?
Glenn comes back today with another good question. Here's his full, unedited question: Your many hats, your one job, the one and only thing that matters. For what it is…
Reader question: how active with exits?
Let's go to the mailbag for a question. Reader Anthony asks: I have a bit of an internal psychological dilemma going on at the moment. I place my stops usually…
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.…
Resources for learning Python
I received a good question in response to my previous post on starting to learn Python for finance. Here's Mark's question: Thanks again for all your work and all that…
Reader questions: order types and rules
Dave asks: "Can you talk a little about order types? Market, limit, and stop orders? Do you work your orders overnight? Do you ever cancel like a stop before it…
Mailbag: moving off the simulator, how to think about influences, and more…
I have a little pile of reader's questions here, so let me just get to them. John asks: "Should I use stop or stop limit orders to protect profits and…