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Four Multi-Millionaire Traders Share Their Thoughts On Trading

  
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number4“The key is consistency and discipline,” says Richard Dennis who grew $400 into $200,000,000.

“The key is consistency and discipline.  I don’t think anybody winds up making money in this business because they started out lucky.”

For legendary trader Richard Dennis, the importance of being consistent isn’t just theory.  In 1984, on a bet, Dennis trained 23 individuals off the street to religiously follow a set of trading rules.  His point was to provide that discipline was the key to trading success.  All but 3 of those beginner traders made over 100% return their very first year of trading and Dennis won his $1,000,000 bet.  Consistent discipline is also what is taught in the “Futures in Motion” advisory service.

“It’s perseverance” declares Tom Baldwin who started with $25,000 and made untold millions trading upwards of $2 billion dollars a day in T-Bond futures.

“It’s perseverance.  You don’t need any education at all to do it … because it is like any job.  If you stand there long enough, you have to pick it up.” (more…)

The influence Of Hope & Fear

  
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In trading psychology, two emotions that are constantly to the fore are hope and fear. One of the traders who recognised this was the legendary trader W D Gann. 

“Hope and fear: I have written about this often in my books and I feel I cannot repeat it too often. The average person buys commodities because they hope they will go up, or because someone advises them, they will go up. This is the most dangerous thing to do, never trade on hope. Hope wrecks more people’s lives than anything else. Face the facts, and when you trade, trade on the facts, eliminating hope”
“Fear causes many losses. People sell out because they fear commodities are going lower, but they often wait until the decline has run its course and sell near the bottom – never make a trade on fear”

On Trading Psychology

  
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From “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator” by Edwin Lefevre, the 1923 classic pseudo-autobiography of legendary trader Jesse Livermore:

… I didn’t always win. My plan of trading was sound enough and won oftener than it lost. If I had stuck to it I’d have been right perhaps as often as seven out of ten times. In fact, I always made money when I was sure I was right before I began. What beat me was not having brains enough to stick to my own game — that is, to play the market only when I was satisfied that precedents favored my play. There is a time for all things, but I didn’t know it. And that is precisely what beats so many men in Wall Street who are very far from being in the main sucker class. There is the plain fool, who does the wrong thing at all times everywhere, but there is the Wall Street fool, who thinks he must trade all the time. No man can always have adequate reasons for buying or selling stocks daily — or sufficient knowledge to make his play an intelligent play.

Sometimes the best play is to not play at all. When playing the market, you have to let the opportunities come to you, and take advantage of them when the odds are in your favor. If you don’t, you’ll get very frustrated — and you’ll lose money.

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