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Accept Responsibility For Your Actions!

  
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Accept ResponsibilityWhether you win or lose, you are responsible for your own results. Even if you lost on your broker’s tip, an advisory service recommendation, or a bad signal from the system you bought, you are responsible because you made the decision to listen and act. I have never met a successful trader who blamed others for his losses.

RBI-Tough time for errant borrowers

  
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Bankers will now be able to toss out errant promoters and grab majority control of companies that fail to pay back loans under the new debt recast rules notified today by the Reserve Bank of India.

The new rules that will effectively put bankers in charge of willful loan-defaulting companies form part of the strategic debt restructuring scheme (SDR) that was notified in February, which is underpinned by the general principle that “shareholders (should) bear the first loss rather than the debt holders”.

Under the new rules, lending banks will be able to hunker down and “convert the whole or part of the loan and interest outstanding into equity shares in the borrower company so as to acquire majority shareholding in the company”. (more…)

A financial glossary

  
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BANK, n. Bottomless cavity in the ground that sucks in money and the unwary.
I had quite a bit of money but then I put it in the bank.

BOND, n. A profitless contrivance used for catching the gullible or feeble-minded.
That pension fund is 100% in bonds now.

BROKER, adj. A comparative descriptive state for a client of a Wall Street bank.
He didn’t  exactly have a lot of money before he started dealing with Goldman Sachs. Now he’s even
broker.

BUBBLE, n. Fundamental prerequisite for a functioning Anglo-Saxon economy.
We need a new bubble to replace the ones we had in dotcom and property.

CENTRAL BANK, n. Lobbyist for commercial banks well versed in alchemy. (more…)

7 Points for Traders

  
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  1. You don’t choose the stock market; it chooses you.  A little bit of early trading success can have a profound effect on a person’s soul.  If it does choose you, you’ll have to accept that your life and investing will become forever connected.
  2. Your methodology must provide an unshakeable foundation that you believe in totally, and you must have the conviction to trade based upon it.   If your belief is tentative or if you don’t have complete faith in your methodology, then a few bad trades will destabilize and erode your confidence. 
  3. A calm mindset that can focus on the execution and not on the outcome is what produces profits.  It takes total emotional control.  You must maintain your balance, rhythm and patience.  You need all three to stay in the game.
  4. The markets are always conniving with ingenious techniques to get you to lose your patience, to get you frustrated or mad, to bait you to do the wrong thing when you know you shouldn’t.  A champion doesn’t allow the markets to get under his skin and take him out of his game.
  5. Like a great painting, all good trades start with a blank canvas.  Winning traders first paint the trade in their mind’s eye so that their emotional selves can reproduce it accurately with clarity and consistency, void of emotions as they play it out in the markets. (more…)

High Probability Trading with the Trend,Must Read These 21 points

  
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1. Know what the trend is.
2. The best trades are made in the direction of the trend.
3. Use multiple time frames to get the overall picture of the market.
4. Assume that the main trendline or moving average will hold
5. The smaller the slope of the trendline is, the more reliable it is.
6. The longer the moving average is, the better it defines the trend.
7. Wait for the pullback
8. Don’t chase the market.
9. Don’t fight the market.
10. Even in the strongest trends there should be some retracement
11. The closer the market is to the trendline, the better the risk/reward ratio is
12. Keep it simple
13. Look for the end of a trend when the last wave doesn’t reach the channel line or the previous move.
14. Use ADX to determine the strength of the trend.
15. Hold trades longer in a strong trend.
16. When getting out in anticipation of a retracement, do not reverse a position.
17. Wait for confirmation of a trendline breaking before reversing position.
18. Watch for bubbles between moving averages.
19. Know where the Fibonacci retracements levels are.
20. Place stops outside retracement levels.
21. Estimate how much the market can move.

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