- Never allow a profit to become a loss. If a profitable trade turns into a losing position, then you have lost twice. Consider taking a portion of the trade as a profit, and if your long term opinion is favorable, then let the rest ride for the duration of the trade.
- Always start the day with your focus on good trade execution and not on big money. Money will take care of itself. A rational mindset trumps irrational behavior every minute of a day.
- Oversee each day carefully, but let a profitable week be your goal. Individual trades may go against you, but a week of stellar opportunities will await your mouse click. In other words, don’t gamble on a bad set up just to get even for the day.
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21 One Liners For Traders
- It is possible to see that a market is dramatically overbought and prepare for, and then capture, huge gains after the sell off.
- Risk small amounts to make big profits.
- Bet against times when numerous leaders must agree.
- Long hours and a strong work ethic are keys to being a successful trader.
- While it is good to trade any market that will turn a profit, specializing in a market can lead to great success.
- The markets go down faster than they go up.
- If the market will not go down during bad news, it will likely go higher.
- The stock market moves in patterns and in cycles. Past price patterns repeat themselves due to human emotions.
- Many times traders think a big position order size means that a whale knows something, most times they do not.
- It is okay to skip a trade if you can’t get your entry price.
- A momentum move does not just stop, it takes time to roll over.
- It is possible to trade successfully by gaming the actions of other traders.
- Be aggressive at high probability moments.
- Always stay in control of your trading and manage risk.
- Focus on risk management as the #1 priority in trading.
- Having the right mindset during a big loss that it is just temporary, is the key to coming back and being successful.
- Letting profits run is sometimes a great plan.
- Being long at all time highs in the indexes is a great strategy.
- Great money managers trade with passion.
- Even Market Wizards have doubts about winning when entering a trade.
- When the top in a market is reached, there is a lot of money to be made shorting as panic selling sets in.
To Trade or Not to Trade
in trading activity alone does not make money, the right activity at the right time is what makes money. Many times the right thing, is to do nothing.
In your actual trading you have to do four things very well to make money.
You have to know when to get in.
Only enter trades that have the highest probability of success and the best risk/reward ratio. Buy the best monster stocks during up trends. Short the fallen leaders when the game changes and they are under the 50 day. Buy the monster stocks at the gift of the 200 day moving average. Short down trending junk stocks. Go where the trends are.
You have to know when to get out.
When your trade reverses through a key support get out. When the market trend changes get out of your long positions. When your stop loss is hit, get out. When the stock reverses and hits your trailing stop, get out.
You have to know when to stay in. (more…)
Discipline
Dramatic and emotional trading experiences tend to be negative. Pride is a great banana peel, as are hope, fear, and greed. My biggest slip-ups occurred shortly after I got emotionally involved with positions.”
Ed Seykota
I don’t buy what I like, I buy what I can sell later at higher price.
Unless you are Buffet and capable to accumulate enough shares to impact management, your shares are just pieces of paper and you should treat them like such.
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It’s the greed factor that corrupts the way people think in this business. Unfortunately, I needed a 6 fig loss to remind me how stupid greed can make a person. Needless to say, from here on, or until I recover some of these losses, trading will be disciplined.
To Trade or Not to Trade-The Biggest Question For Traders
In trading activity alone does not make money, the right activity at the right time is what makes money. Many times the right thing, is to do nothing.
In your actual trading you have to do four things very well to make money.
You have to know when to get in.
Only enter trades that have the highest probability of success and the best risk/reward ratio. Buy the best monster stocks during up trends. Short the fallen leaders when the game changes and they are under the 50 day. Buy the monster stocks at the gift of the 200 day moving average. Short down trending junk stocks. Go where the trends are.
You have to know when to get out. (more…)
9 Secrets for Successful Speculation
As you read the list below, think about how you can learn more about each secret and adapt it to your own most effective use.
Secret #1: Contrarianism takes courage.
Everyone knows the essential investment formula: “Buy low, sell high,” but it is so much easier said than done, it might as well be a secret formula.
The way to really make it work is to invest in an asset or commodity that people want and need but that for reasons of market cyclicality or other temporary factors, no one else is buying. When the vast majority thinks something necessary is a bad investment, you want to be a buyer—that’s what it means to be a contrarian.
Obviously, if this were easy, everyone would do it, and there would be no such thing as a contrarian opportunity. But it is very hard for most people to think independently enough to risk hard-won cash in ways others think is mistaken or too dangerous. Hence, fortune favors the bold.
Secret #2: Success takes discipline.
It’s not just a matter of courage, of course; you can bravely follow a path right off a cliff if you’re not careful. So you have to have a game plan for risk mitigation. You have to expect market volatility and turn it to your advantage. And you’ll need an exit strategy.
The ways a successful speculator needs discipline are endless, but the most critical of all is to employ smart buying and selling tactics, so you don’t get goaded into paying too much or spooked into selling for too little.
Secret #3: Analysis over emotion. (more…)
7 Basic Truths of Trading
- Well-defined objectives. Are you trying to beat a certain return hurdle, like inflation or an index? Are you trying to generate 5% or 50% returns per year? You have to understand what you are trying to do and then bend your investment process around it. The other way around isn’t possible.
- An understanding of the markets that you will be operating in. Stick to what you know. Narrow your focus so as to make the most of your efforts. You need to know everything about the markets where you’re taking positions.
- A clearly defined methodology for getting into and out of positions. This includes which indicators, news items, fundamental data points you look at and when you take action. This is your checklist—you should have it so well defined that you can be sure of the exact steps along the way. You need a game plan so that you stay consistent and disciplined and don’t get flustered under pressure. It should become automatic and engrained.
- This methodology must utilize your strengths and skills and suit your personality. A cerebral, research-driven economist should put that to work, instead of becoming a swing trader based on technical analysis. An adrenaline-fueled athlete should be an intraday trader, not be a long-term trend follower. Remember, every successful trader has a methodology of their own which plays to their strengths and their personality.
- This methodology has a positive statistical expectancy– the gains from winners more than outweigh the losses on losing trades. Use your own statistics and the Kelly Formula for a rough guide as to whether or not you have positive statistical expectancy. On average you want to expect to win on an individual trade, meaning that your expected wins outweigh your prospective losses. That doesn’t guarantee that you will actually profit on each trade, it just means that over a sufficiently large quantity of trades, you will come out ahead.
- A well-stated risk management policy for when you get out of losing positions and how you manage risk overall. Cut losers. Let winners ride. Many people have tried to overthink this rule and ended up losing as a result. Furthermore, you never want to put yourself in a position where you can blow up, so you need to be thinking how you can avoid taking excessive risk in the first place. Just remember Warren Buffett’s Two Rules:A framework for sizing positions. This is related to risk management— obviously, you don’t want to take a position that’s over a certain size, ever. But you may also want to size positions according to certain specific critieria, such as your conviction in the position or volatility in the market. Or they could all be the same size. Nonetheless, your methodology has to be able to address it and come up with a well-reasoned answer.
- Never Lose Money.
- Never Forget Rule #1.
Ten Trading Terms Used By Technical Analysts -Sound Like Sex Acts
In no particular order….
- Blowoff Top
- Bottom Bounce
- Shorting Against The Box
- The Piledriver
- Inverse Hammer
- Kissing The Trendline
- Rolling A Position Forward
- Getting “Cramered”
- Churning
- Spread Trading
Above Terms u had Read many times written by Technical Analysts & Blue Channels Anchors + Analysts
Who we are as individuals is how we trade in the markets – Weaknesses and Strengths of Traders
Ambitious
Makes and follows long term business plan
•Unambitious
Will ignore long term business plan
•Calm
Will handle times of market volatility and make smart decisions
•Worrying
Will panic when markets are volatile and make stupid decisions
•Cautious
Strictly follows Stop-Loss rules and Protects Trading Capital
•Rash
Will not be diligent with Stop losses and will risk trading capital
•Cheerful
Handles losses and down times in markets (more…)
Trading Psychology Lesson-Naked Truth
A good analyst is someone who can figure out that markets are going from Point A to Point B;
A good trader is someone who can navigate the path from Point A to Point B;
A good investor is someone who can weather the path from Point A to Point B;
Good analysts often are not good traders.
Good traders often are not good investors.
Good investors often are not good traders.
Good traders and investors often need to hire good analysts.
So much of success boils down to knowing who you are and accepting that.