Monthly Archives: January 2007

Fear is healthy, greed is good

In this overly sensitive day and age it is commonly said that in order to get the …

Stop-hunting is NOT the problem some people say

A topic that comes up a lot on forex discussion forums is “stop hunting”, though it isn’t …

Golf and Trading – Learning from Tiger

I’m not a golfer. The extent of my playing has been a whopping total of 9 holes, …

You don’t have to trade you know

I came across a headline yesterday while flipping through the collection of blogs I normally skim. It …

Trade real money, not paper money

In the last chapter of The Essentials of Trading I wrote something that many people would consider …

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How much leverage to use? Wrong question!

I see the question about what the best level of leverage is for someone to use in their trading, but it’s not the right question at all. This post is about what the right question really is.

The easiest and stupidest way to lose money

I did it again. I made a stupid mistake on an order entry yesterday afternoon and sure enough it cost me money.

Keep your head from ruining perfectly good trades

I was recently responding to a post on one of the discussion forums I frequent that I …

Knowing the high volume forex trading timeframes

An extremely frequent question I see in the forex discussion boards and that I get in my conversations …

Easy stock option trading

Several years ago I stopped trading stocks all together. After more than a decade in the market …

Trader interaction and information sharing

Of late I have been fairly active on the net looking at trading websites of various types, …

Is it investing? Or is it trading?

On one of the forums I read and sometimes contribute to a young market professional posted an inquiry about …

Trading Systems Defined

In my previous two posts I outlined my thoughts on some topics related to trading systems, especially …

Taking a closer look at trading system win rate

Yesterday I wrote about the three elements needed to assess and compare trading systems (Thoughts on Trading System …

Thoughts on Trading System Performance

I was recently alerted to some commentary on trading system design and backtesting. That grabbed my attention …

Trade Commodities without Trading Futures

In 2006 we saw the advent of currency exchange traded funds (ETFs). They are instruments traded like …

Losing more than your initial account balance

A question came up recently on the topic of whether you could lose more than your initial …

Trade nice children!

One of the things that has long bothered me about the trading community is, in fact, the …

The better you are, the better you want to be

“If you’re any good at all, you know you can be better” – Lindsey Buckingham That’s from …