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100 TRADING TIPS

  
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1)Nobody is bigger than the market.

 2)The challenge is not to be the market, but to read the market. Riding the  wave is much more rewarding than being hit by it.
 
 3)Trade with the trends, rather than trying to pick tops and bottoms. 
    
 4)There are at least three types of markets: up trending, range bound, and  down. Have different trading strategies for each.
 
 5)In uptrends, buy the dips ;in downtrends, sell bounces. 
    
 6)In a Bull market, never sell a dull market, in Bear market, never buy a dull  market. 

    7)Up market and down market patterns are ALWAYS present, merely one is  more dominant. In an up market, for example, it is very easy to take sell  signal after sell signal, only to be stopped out time and again. Select trades  with the trend. 
  
 
 8)A buy signal that fails is a sell signal. A sell signal that fails is a buy signal. 
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5 Facts for Speculators & Traders

  
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1) It’s not by making large profits that money is made over time. It’s by consistently keeping losses small in relation to profits. 
2) Making Money and Being Right are at opposite ends of the performance spectrum, and — very surprisingly to most — most professional traders admit their primary job is to minimize losses, NOT focus on being right. Why? Minizing losses (well over 50% of the time losses can’t be avoided) ensures their average winner will be greater in relation to the average loser. 
3) No one knows FOR SURE how much profit any trade is likely to make. Fortunately, it is possible to know THE INITIAL RISK a trader is willing to lose. 
4) Projection of future prices are only a BEST GUESS, never a 100% certainty. 
5) Top traders only control three things all the time: Initial Risk, Exits, and EMOTIONS…  

Run Like A Thief!

  
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theifConsider the following, every trade must have two objectives: (1) procedure to manage initial risk, and (2) method to maximize profits. Two faces of the same coin!.
As traders we are trading our “hope and aspirations”, in the “belief” that the market “may” accommodate our expectations.
Hence, if there is no “instant gratification”, we must execute a planned strategy to “run like thieves, with or without the loot!”.

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