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Six Rules of Michael Steinhardt

  
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1. Make all your mistakes early in life: The more tough lessons you learn early on, the fewer (bigger) errors you make later. A common mistake of all young investors is to be too trusting with brokers, analysts, and newsletters who are trying to sell you something.

2. always make your living doing something you enjoy: Devote your full intensity for success over the long-term.

3. be intellectually competitive: Do constant research on subjects that make you money. Plow through the data so as to be able to sense a major change coming in the macro situation.

4. make good decisions even with incomplete information: Investors never have all the data they need before they put their money at risk. Investing is all about decision-making with imperfect information. You will never have all the info you need. What matters is what you do with the information you have. Do your homework and focus on the facts that matter most in any investing situation.

5. always trust your intuition:  Intuition is more than just a hunch — it resembles a hidden supercomputer in the mind that you’re not even aware is there. It can help you do the right thing at the right time if you give it a chance. Over time, your own trading experience will help develop your intuition so that major pitfalls can be avoided.

6. don’t make small investments: You only have so much time and energy so when you put your money in play. So, if you’re going to put money at risk, make sure the reward is high enough to justify it.

5 Trading Pitfalls And Solution

  
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pitfallThe following are 5 common pitfalls I have seen traders experience and I have listed 5 practical solutions you can quickly implement to overcome these assassins to your performance.

Pitfalls

  1. 1. Focusing on the P & L
  2. 2. Losing objectivity while in a trade
  3. 3. Becoming emotional about a trade
  4. 4. Lacking confidence: exiting early, failing to put a trade on, not sizing up
  5. Difficulty adapting to a changing market (more…)

5 Trading Pitfalls and how to Solve Them

  
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 I have observed that Losing money doing the right thing does not destroy a traders’ mental focus. It is when they lose money doing the wrong thing…That is what truly eats at their soul and messes with their head.

With that said, the following are 5 common pitfalls I have seen traders experience and I have listed 5 practical solutions you can quickly implement to overcome these assassins to your performance.

Pitfalls
1. Focusing on the P & L

2. Losing objectivity while in a trade

3. Becoming emotional about a trade

4. Lacking confidence: exiting early, failing to put a trade on, not sizing up

5. Difficulty adapting to a changing market

Solutions
1. Quantify success base on the caliber of the trade (i.e. high quality entries/exits).

2. Continuously ask yourself, “is my original reason WHY I entered this trade still there?”

3. While you are in a trade, ask yourself, if I had no position on right now, what would I do? Buy? Sell Short? Do nothing? Then re-evaluate your trade size and direction.

4. Confidence should always come from within. Step#1: Write bullet list of data points proving WHY you are a skilled trader. Step #2: Prime yourself each morning by reading it over to yourself. Could be the most valuable 30 seconds you spend each day.

5. Flip your perspective by keeping track of what is not working (by default this tells you what IS working).

5 Trading Pitfalls And How To Solve Them

  
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pitfall-The following are 5 common pitfalls I have seen traders experience and I have listed 5 practical solutions you can quickly implement to overcome these assassins to your performance.
Pitfalls

  1. Focusing on the P & L
  2. Losing objectivity while in a trade
  3. Becoming emotional about a trade
  4. Lacking confidence: exiting early, failing to put a trade on, not sizing up
  5. Difficulty adapting to a changing market

Solutions

  1. 1.Quantify success base on the caliber of the trade (i.e. high quality entries/exits).
  2. Continuously ask yourself, “is my original reason WHY I entered this trade still there?” (more…)

Traps and Pitfalls

  
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Realistically, there are many ways to lose money in the financial markets and, if you play this game long enough, you’ll get to know the most of them intimately. Fortunately, a survivalist plan empowers you to avoid many of the traps and pitfalls faced by other traders. Above all else, learn the five market scenarios that place you at the most risk.

  1. Bad Markets – A good pattern won’t bail you out of a bad market, so move to the sidelines when conflict and indecision take hold of the tape. Your long-term survival depends on effective trade management. The bottom line: don’t trade when you can’t measure your risk, and stand aside when you can’t find your edge.
  2. Bad Timing – It’s easy to be right but still lose money. Financial instruments are forced to negotiate a minefield of conflicting trends, each dependent on different time frames. Your positions need to align with the majority of these cycles in order to capture the profits visualized in your trade analysis.
  3. Bad Trades – There are a lot of stinkers out there, vying for your attention, so look for perfect convergence before risking capital on a questionable play, and then get out at the first sign of danger. It’s easy to go brain dead and step into a weak-handed position that makes absolutely no sense, whether it moves in your favor or not. The bottom line: it’s never too late to get out of a stupid trade.
  4. Bad Stops – Poor stops will shake you out of good positions. Stops do their best work when placed outside the market noise, while keeping risk to a minimum. Many traders believe professionals hit their stops because they have inside knowledge, but the truth is less mysterious. Most of us stick them in the same old places.
  5. Bad Action – Modern markets try to burn everyone before they launch definable trends. These shakeouts occur because most traders play popular strategies that have been deconstructed by market professionals. In a sense, the buy and sell signals found in TA books are turned against the naïve folks using them.

5 Trading Pitfalls To Avoid

  
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Pitfalls1. Aiming too high – There is no quick way to get rich. You need to be realistic in the goals you set and do not overpromise yourself. The success in trading is the ability to follow through.

2. Trying to win them all – – Keep adding to a loser position instead of getting out. The result based on impulsive trades usually becomes a lot worse before it gets better.

3. Hoping to recover from big drawdown – Get out of your losing positions quick. It is inevitable that you get caught in the wrong end of a trending market. Always a day late and many many dollars short !

4. Don’t know when to stop/check – It is time to reflect when your system loses the edge. Don’t send yourself into mine fields. Take some time off and regroup your strategy.

5. Being stubborn – Don’t fight the wrong fight and keep kicking yourself. Remorse about your misfortune won’t changed what have happened. Trading is supposedly fun, challenging and rewarding. If you  don’t feel this way, please stop trading.

Six Rules of Michael Steinhardt

  
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Michael Steinhardt was one of the most successful hedge fund managers of all time. A dollar invested with Steinhardt Partners LP in 1967 was worth $481 when Steinhardt retired in 1995.

The following six rules were pulled out from a speech he gave:

1. Make all your mistakes early in life: The more tough lessons you learn early on, the fewer (bigger) errors you make later. A common mistake of all young investors is to be too trusting with brokers, analysts, and newsletters who are trying to sell you something.

2. Always make your living doing something you enjoy: Devote your full intensity for success over the long-term.

3. Be intellectually competitive: Do constant research on subjects that make you money. Plow through the data so as to be able to sense a major change coming in the macro situation.

4. Make good decisions even with incomplete information: Investors never have all the data they need before they put their money at risk. Investing is all about decision-making with imperfect information. You will never have all the info you need. What matters is what you do with the information you have. Do your homework and focus on the facts that matter most in any investing situation. (more…)

Which type of trader?

  
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Which type of trader?

Traders

Please which one of the following belong to you?

there are many type of traders, an awareness of the varieties allows you to avoid the pitfalls.

THE DISCIPLINED TRADER.

This is the ideal type of trader, you take your profits and loses with ease, you focus on your system and follow it with discipline.Trading is usually a relax activity,you appreciate that a loss does not make you a looser.

THE DOUBTER.

you find it difficult to execute at signals, you doubt your won abilities.You need to develop confidence.Perhaps you should paper trade.

BLAMER

All losses are someones else ‘s fault, you blame bad fills, your broker for picking the phone up to slowly , our system for not being perfect, you need to regain your objectivity and self-responsibility.

VICTIM

You blame yourself, you feel the market is out to get you, you start becoming superstitious in your trading.

OPTIMIST.

You start thinking it’s only money , ill make it back later. you think all losses will bounce back to profits, or that you will start trading properly tomorrow.

GAMBLER.

You are in for the trill, Money is a side issue. Risk and reward analysis hardly figure in your trade, You want to be a player, want the buzz and excitement.

TIMID.

You enter a trade, but panic at the sight of a profit and take it far to soon, Fear rules your trading.

Overcome Indecisive Trading- Take 5 Steps

  
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Admit it. Face up to what it is. Call it a slump, call it shattered confidence, call it a big scary market monster. Whatever “it” is, you have to get it on the table so you can deal with it.

Seek help. Maybe you shouldn’t go it alone. Without some accountability, it’s easy to relapse. Find a mentor or some coaching to get you back on track, and add some skills to your repertoire. The fact of the matter is that left to your own abilities as they currently stand, you may very well be facing a similar situation again.

Take inventory. Take an inventory of what’s left of your capital, both in terms of cash and confidence. It may be that you simply don’t have enough left to consider a comeback right away, so perhaps you incubate for a while and prepare in other ways for your eventual return. Or perhaps you assess your situation and realize you have more than enough to start the process.

Get uncomfortably familiar with the cause. What was it that put you in need of recovery to begin with? Overconfidence? Lack of respect for the market? A series of small mistakes which compounded your problems? Understanding the root cause of your wounds, even if painful, will help you prevent it from happening again in the future. After all, you’ve already paid the tuition, you might as well get the lesson.

Get back in the saddle. The last step in the sequence is to return to trading and begin rebuilding. Start thinking about what that’s going to look like for you and how you’ll avoid the same pitfalls which got you this time around. Visualize yourself back in the routine again, making plays, staying disciplined, and having success.

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