15 One Liners For Traders

  1. One good trend pays for them all.
  2. Accept just enough risk so you can sleep well at night.
  3. When prices break through your stops, pull the trigger and sell.
  4. News:  we stash that flash in the trash.  Ignore the “newsamentals”.
  5. Betting the right size matters bigtime.
  6. Most investors get stressed and need to stop the pain, so they use medicinal strategies instead of doing the right thing.
  7. You have to notice trends early.  If you wait and only participate in them when they’ve gone exponentially vertical, it’s too late.  Look for a fresh trend.
  8. Plow money back into your trading portfolio.  Don’t make a big profit and then run out to buy a new Porsche.
  9. When trend traders begin to lose interest, momentum starts to turn negative.
  10. There are no Holy Grails.  You just have to do the work, follow your disciplines and trends, and then cut your losses.  It’s that basic.
  11. Know where you’ll get out before you get in.
  12. I have no demons.  I’m a blessed man.
  13. Luck is just a fat tail or outlier on a normal distribution.  Luck happens.  If it happens to you, manage it with humility and use stops.
  14. The folks I mentor who wash out are those who just cannot control their feelings like I ask them to do.  They can’t accept their own emotional landscape.
  15. The trading adrenaline does diminish over time and with experience.  The objective is to rid yourself of it – totally.
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