5 Ways to Simplify Your Trading, Reduce Stress and Increase Profit
This Isn’t the Office Unlike the outside world, trading itself should be a very simple, and repeatable task once “tuned in”. This year I have really focused on separating the signal from the noise and taking less trades but more being relentless about following my…
Are You Trading the Wrong System for Your Personality?
Square Peg Round Hole I am in the middle of a book by Brett Steenbarger, someone I originally wrote off as his book “The Psychology of Trading” seemed very theoretical and abstract. I felt it was a psychologist talking about traders and not a trader…
Minervini Private Access: Is it Really Worth it?
By Popular Demand I have to be honest, I was getting a little disheartened starting this blog and the only question people would ask would be about Mark Minervini, his Private Access service and Master Trader Program. I don’t blame anyone though, before I signed…
If Only I Knew Now… 3 Mistakes to Avoid When Getting Started in Stock Trading (Part 2)
Be Your Own Coach Moving on to part 2 of 3 in the series of “Trading Mistakes to Avoid” I soon realized that this could be an encyclopedia of mistakes that I have made over 10 years of trading. In fact, it’s inspired me to…
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…