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7 Trading Rules for Flash Traders

  
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1. Keep adding to losing positions. 
What the heck, price bound to turn soon. Martingale method sounds great. Consider adding on double to loosing trades. When price turns I’ll laughing all the way to the bank even I have to close my initial entries at loss.

2. Don’t use any stop-loss
Why bother with stop-loss. It’s for pussies anyways

3. Don’t waste time with money management
Thank you very much but I already know how to manage my own money. Why bother with money management nonsense.

I can use my time doing more trading and making money instead delving into all that mumbo-jumbo technical jargon.

4. Keep trading
I cannot afford to loose any opportunities. I need to be always in markets, day in day out. After all life is to short to waste golden opportunities. I cannot afford them passing by me.

5. I trust my great indicators
Why bother to learn to read charts and all that price action garbage while my sweet indicators are doing it for me. Leave the hard work to those suckers.

6. Buy the bottoms and sell the tops
I cannot understand why those people wasting their time trying to read charts. When price moves up significantly I sell, when price moves down I buy. Simple, buy low sell high as the saying goes.

7. Always check media and internet for good tips.
Let those suckers do the hard work again and I just use their work. After all all those experienced people in media cannot be far of from the truth as they have the insight knowledge.

10 Steps to Profitable Trading

  
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  • 1. Manage Risk: Learn to trade a manageable portion of you portfolio (I recommend to risk less than 2% of you overall portfolio equity on each trade). Always establish a risk/reward ratio before making a trade. Without the ratio, how do you know your risk?
  • 2. Understand Position Sizing: All traders must learn to know “how much” to trade on each position. Do not overtrade or you will runt he risk of ruin. Position sizing is rule number one of managing risk.
  • 3. Cut Losses: Do not allow losses to run wild. You must learn to cut losses and understand that losses are a part of the game, a large part of the game. Check you ego of winning at the door. We are here to make money, not go undefeated. Play sports if you want to keep score with a record rather than your bankroll.
  • 4. Learn when to Sell: You must learn when to sell. Selling is more important than buying as it ties directly to risk management. Use stops if you haven’t yet developed the discipline to get out at your predetermined stop or profit goal.
  • 5. Average up in Price: I will never hesitate to add shares in a stock that is moving higher (see Mastercard) but I always avoid averaging down. Remember, cut losses and never throw good money after bad because we know that’s a quick way to the poorhouse.
  • 6. Have Patience: It takes years to master trading as an advanced skill; even then, you are never done learning or adapting.
  • 7. Buy 52-week Highs, not 52-Week Lows: Don’t be afraid to buy stocks making new highs. The garbage sits at the bottom of the market along with poor earnings, weakness and further downward pressure. Buy strength and the momentum moving higher. Stocks are typically priced at the levels they trade for good reason. This applies to most premium items in life.
  • 8. Ignore the Talking Heads: Do not listen to the stories, gossip and rumors flying around on network television, stock forums or the major financial newspapers. It a surefire route to bad information and clueless advice. Do your own research; you’ll come out much further ahead. This applies to crappy blogs and internet sites as well.
  • 9. Understand Technical Analysis: Fundamental analysis is a solid part of my trading system but technical analysis brings in the dough. You must learn, understand and use technical analysis on a daily basis. Fundamental analysis tells me what and technical analysis tells me when, where and how.
  • 10. Control Emotions: Enough said – You must control your emotions or the game is over!Understand you!

Common Mistakes to Avoid while Trading:

  
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  • Failure to cut losses: Pride, ego, or stubbornness prevents the trader from selling.
  • Not knowing “how much” to trade on each position: Overtrading positions can kill your account and take you out for good (risk of ruin).
  • Average down in price: Placing good money after bad is a loser’s game.
  • Listening to rumors: Forget the talking heads, rumors and tips as they are nothing but garbage and a sure way to substantial losses
  • Lack of patience: It takes years to master trading as an advanced skill; even then, you are never done learning or adapting
  • Not knowing when to sell: Determine your price objectives and risk-to-reward ratios prior to entering the trade; never allow emotions to make this decision. (more…)

Think More, React Less

  
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Yesteraday finally watched Inception over the weekend and found it to be the most enjoyable movie so far of the summer. Of course, that’s not saying much as we continue to despise much of the garbage coming out of Hollywood these days, but we both found the movie fascinating.

One of the things in the movie that got me to thinking is the concept that when we sleep our minds keep working through problems at a higher level in order find and create solutions. I don’t know about you, but I immediately identified with this. In fact it caused me to remember something I use to do many years ago while in college  but haven’t been doing lately due to my early-morning “up at 5″ work schedule. That is, whenever I ran into a difficult impasse in my research and work, I would often spend the last 30 minutes before bed simply thinking and studying the problem I was facing. Then after going to bed while I was asleep my mind would continue working on it so that when I would awake the next morning I’d have a new angle or approach to work on.

While the process didn’t always work and sometimes resulted in an unrestful night’s sleep as I tossed and turned throughout the night, by taking time out of my day to think about a problem without distractions before bed at times did enable me to find creative solutions that seemed to work more often than not. Although I’ve done the same thing for years through daily meditation (20 minutes each and every day), I must confess I think there is something to the process of preparing your mind to work on problems while you sleep and completely free from distractions, especially if you’re faced with a particularly cumbersome or complicated challenge.

Many of you are probably not surprised to hear me say that I think time spent to concentrated thought without any distractions is something I think many traders lack these days. As all of us continued to be constantly bombarded with real-time information, I think many have become far more reactionary than “thought” driven. At some level that is ok for some strategies (like day trading for example), but it wreaks havoc on others.

It has also been my experience through working one-on-one with members in the mentorship group that most are not devoting enough “think time” in their daily routines. In my experience, the average person only takes less than 5 minutes a day (if that) to actually think through their trades, strategies, and plans. That’s not enough! Not by a long shot!

For that reason alone, mixing up your routine to enable your mind to think without distractions while you sleep may be at least something you’ll want to try. While I know from experience that I always receive dubious feedback whenever I recommend utilizing meditation and breathing techniques to help clear the mind, boost productivity, and overall performance, you may want to at least try mixing up your work schedule a little bit in order to gear and ramp up your mental state more effectively. In addition, if you’re not devoting some time every day (at least 30 minutes) free from all distractions to think about your strategies, positions, and performance, then I truly believe you are not really giving yourself the best chance for success.

The more the world speeds up and becomes even more reactionary, the more important I think it will be for those of us engaged in the markets to think more and react less.

Trading Mistakes: Avoid at all Costs

  
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Common Mistakes to Avoid while Trading:

  • Failure to cut losses: Pride, ego, or stubbornness prevents the trader from selling.
  • Not knowing “how much” to trade on each position: Overtrading positions can kill your account and take you out for good (risk of ruin). (Learn to position size)
  • Average down in price: Placing good money after bad is a loser’s game.
  • Listening to rumors: Forget the talking heads, rumors and tips as they are nothing but garbage and a sure way to substantial losses
  • Lack of patience: It takes years to master trading as an advanced skill; even then, you are never done learning or adapting
  • Not knowing when to sell: Determine your price objectives and risk-to-reward ratios prior to entering the trade; never allow emotions to make this decision.
  • Buying 52-week lows: Don’t be afraid to buy stocks making new highs. The garbage sits at the bottom along with weakness and downward momentum. Buy strength and the momentum moving higher.
  • Pure Fundamentalist: Technical analysis is a must! Use candlestick charts that show the price, volume and major moving averages – this is all you need, don’t complicate the process.
  • Making trading decisions based on taxes: Never buy or sell based on taxes alone.
  • Buying based on dividends: Don’t buy based solely on dividends; most growth stocks will never give out dividends
  • Buying familiar names: Yesterday’s leaders are not likely to be tomorrow’s stars. Look for solid new companies with great earnings, sales and a product in demand. Don’t buy a stock based on a popular household name.
  • Lack of action: Be able to move on a dime. Time is money, don’t procrastinate or hope for something that may never happen.
  • Lack of Consistency: Develop a method suited to your personality; stick to it and don’t trade blindly.
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