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Ten Rules of Trading from Bernard Baruch

  
Analysis, Education
  • Don’t speculate unless you can make it a full-time job.
  • Beware of barbers, beauticians, waiters- of anyone- bringing gifts of “inside” information or “tips”.
  • Before you buy a security, find out everything you can about the company, its management and competitors, its earnings and possibilities for growth.
  • Don’t try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can’t be done — except by liars.
  • Learn how to take your losses quickly and cleanly. Don’t expect to be right all the time. If you have made a mistake, cut your losses as quickly as possible.
  • Don’t buy too many different securities. Better have only a few investments which can be watched.
  • Make a periodic reappraisal of all your investments to see whether changing developments have altered their prospects.
  • Study your tax position to know when you can sell to greatest advantage.
  • Always keep a good part of your capital in a cash reserve. Never invest all your funds.
  • Don’t try to be a jack of all investments. Stick to the field you know best.

I hope the above rules could be helpful for the ones of you that are still lacking discipline in trading. I still find them extremely relevant and believe that they are a great piece of trading/investment wisdom.

Mental Toughness

  
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The mental part of the game. Its an aspect of trading that can easily be ignored, we all choose how we approach this game. Some see failures as opportunities to learn and progress, while others see them as outright failures and road blocks which should be avoided at all costs. Its all about attitude. 
 
I feel that trading should be ‘easy’ It should be effortless and without conflict. If we are going to be in this game for 20+ years. I feel its important to make the experience as easy as we can. We shouldn’t be ‘fighting’ with the market, in the boxing ring, hoping, fearing and stressing. 
 
There is RISK management, but SELF management is equally as important. When we are actively trading the market, we are free to make buy and sell decisions whenever we want. The tough part is consistently making the correct buy/sell decisions. These decisions come with conflict!
 
 
Taking Profits

So this is the hardest part of trading. It can be made simple if we accept a few hard facts. 
 
1. You will never sell at the top. 
2. Your going to be wrong when you sell. 
 
This is fact. As soon as you sell, the stock will probably keep going up. You may look at it 5 months later and its up 100% since you sold it. Point is, when you sell, your probably going to be wrong. This creates a conflict. 
 
As humans, we do not want to be wrong. We seek perfection, we want to nail the top! It can help explain why people run up stocks 20% to watch them come all the way back down to break even. The reason why they did not sell is because they are afraid to be wrong. By selling you are forced to draw a line under your mistake. But being wrong in the stock market is inevitable.  (more…)

Jesse Livermore Quotes -Must Read & Follow

  
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1) The stock market is never obvious. It is designed to fool most of the people, most of the time.

2) Play the market only when all factors are in your favor. No person can play the market all the time and win.There are times when you should be completely out of the market, for emotional as well as economic reasons.

3) Do not use the words “Bullish” or “Bearish.” These words fix a firm market-direction in the mind for an extended period of time. Instead, use “Upward Trend” and “Downward Trend” when asked the direction you think the market is headed. Simply say: “The line of least resistance is either upward or downward at this time.”Remember, don’t fight the tape!

4) The game of speculation is the most uniformly fascinating game in the world. But it is not a game for the stupid, the mentally lazy, the person of inferior emotional balance, or the get-rich-quick adventurer. They will die poor.

5) The only thing to do when a person is wrong is to be right, by ceasing to be wrong. Cut your losses quickly, without hesitation. Don’t waste time. When a stock moves below a mental-stop, sell it immediately. (more…)

Typical Symptoms of Ego-Tizing Trading

  
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  • Not putting in stops. The ego doesn’t want to be proven wrong.ego-
  • Hesitating before putting on a trade. The ego wants reassurance before it begins.
  • Overtrading. The ego wants to prove itself big time.
  • Getting stuck in a trade. The ego has intertwined itself with a trade and is holding on for dear life. It cannot cut out. The ego doesn’t want to be wrong.
  • Adding to a losing trade. The ego digs its hole deeper in a massive effort to crawl out.
  • Grabbing a profit too soon. The ego wants a pat on the back.
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