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A Good Trade -One Liner

  
  Education
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  • A good trade is based on your trading plan; a bad trade is based on emotions and beliefs.
  • A good trade is based on your own personal edge; a bad trade is based on your opinion.
    • “A trader should have no opinion.  The stronger your opinion, the harder it is to get out of a losing position.”  -Paul Rotter
  • A good trade is made using your own time frame; a bad trade changes timeframe due to a loss.
  • A good trade is made in reaction to current price reality; a bad trade is made based on personal judgment.
    • Your plans can make you money because you’re not trying go predict what will happen; you’re adjusting in real time to what is happening.
    • Always trade in the direction of the longer-term trend of your time frame where the easiest money is located.
  • A good trade is made after identifying and trading with the trend; a bad trade fights the trend.
    • “The answer to the question, ‘What’s the trend?’ is the question, ‘What’s your timeframe?”  -Richard Weissman
  • A good trade is made using the trading vehicles you are an expert in; a bad trade is when you trade unfamiliar markets.
    • In the markets you will see that money flows from those who have not done their homework to those who have”

61 -One Liner on Strategy

  
Analysis, Education
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1. Always change a losing game; never change a winning game.

2. Always have a plan going into a match, and a backup plan.

3. Always have a surprise to pull out all the stops.

4. Reconnoiter your opponent before the match for his strengths and weaknesses.

5. Have a general strategy against all power players, and another against all control players.

6. Analyze every match – how would you play it differently next time.

7. Keep a log of your strategies, and of the opponents.

8. Always have a customized strategy against each opponent, if possible.

9. Call a timeout whenever you skip two straight shots, or the opponent runs three straight points.

10. Keep a coach in the crowd for a second opinion. (more…)

5 Basic Tasks Necessary To Become A Winning Trader

  
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  1. Develop a competent analytical methodology.
  2. Extract a reasonable trading plan from this methodology.
  3. Formulate rules for this plan that incorporate money management techniques.
  4. Back-test the plan over a sufficiently long period.
  5. Exercise self-management so that you adhere to the plan. The best plan in the world cannot work if you don’t act on it.
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