If Only I Knew Now… Pitfalls to Avoid When You Start Trading (Part 1)
Everything is Clear in Hindsight I’ve been asked by a few of our friends to write-up about the perils and pitfalls of my early days in stock trading. Funnily enough, there are so many of them that I could probably write an entire book on…
The Start of Global Socialism and How to Trade it
A Note on Risk I really get tired of people saying trading is risky or as alluded to in other posts “Gambling”. There are many types of risk in the stock market and being on the sidelines could be the worst of them all. Few people…
Managing Fear During a Stock Market Pullback
Everything is Clear in Hindsight Do you ever buy a ‘sure fire’ stock that you were certain is going to rocket but somehow pulls back the second you buy it? That large, sometimes over-sized trade soon turns into an anxiety riddled affair and all of…
How a Trading Journal Changed my Trading and Life
A Tale of Two Traders Of all the incoming questions I get through our blog, I seldom get inquiries about the actual process of trading. It’s always about how much money someone wants to make, how they love a special stock and “what I think”…
How the Media Poisons Your Trading Psychology
A Sweeping Statement I always find it funny when someone goes onto social media …. to knock social media. And yet here we are. I don’t have any major issues with the privacy aspects, if people want to willingly give away their data – it’s…
The Importance of Self-Reflection In Trading Psychology
How Can we Know What we Don’t Know I was in the middle of writing an article on ‘Simple Trading Patterns’ and had to stop dead in my tracks. I am honestly sick and tired of posts about patterns, techniques and strategies to give people…
Screening for Stocks with Better Odds of Success
Finding Winners & Still Having a Life Screening for stocks is a core tool that should help you create a trading model that helps you focus, and not get get consumed by bad habits. It’s taken a number of years for me to tune,…
Is Trading Stocks the Same as Gambling?
Is Trading Stocks Gambling? If you have been trading a while, no doubt have you heard (usually from people who aren’t trading or have lost money), that: Investing is super risky, best leave it to the professionals. All you are doing is gambling The market…
The Ego – The Larger The Ego, the Lower the Profit
The Ego – Your Worst Enemy Writing about the ego is tricky. Most notably because there is a real dichotomy between the advice I give, and how I act in actuality (due to my ego). I’ll humbly ask that you take this for what it…
Mark Minervini’s Master Trader Program: An Honest Review
Take it From a Skeptic Before I start this review of Mark Minvervini’s Trading Course (Master Trader Program) I need to be perfectly clear: I struggle to spend money… education is one of the few exceptions but even at that, I would thought the price…
To be Accountable is to be Free
Perception is Reality To be accountable is the only true path to freedom, both financially and personally. I need to warn you up-front that this article may ‘trigger’ some people. It could call into question much of what you are taught in school or college….
True Trading Knowledge is Experiential
The Illusion of Knowledge “An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Unlike most endeavors we take on, trading is a little different. In fact, trading to me is one of the most free places of expression on planet…