Tag Archives: perspective

A Few Bits of Trading and Market Wisdom

At the beginning of the year, Barry Ritholtz published a list of Market Truisms and Axioms from Arthur …

Picking a Good Business School

The question of business schools (meaning MBA programs) comes up on a fairly regular basis on the …

The Trade that Hurts the Most

Way back in the day I was a newbie trader. I know, it’s hard to believe, but …

One Trader’s Path – Guest Post

One of my list members answered the call to contribute some thoughts on trading and trader development …

Looking forward to the new year

Welcome to 2009! If last year wasn’t a great one for you, then I hope this one …

Efficient Markets: Should you even bother trading?

The question of whether the markets are efficient was broached again by a fellow blogger recently. The …

Revisiting the impact of these markets on traders and investors

The other day I asked the question “How have these markets impacted your trading?” (if you haven’t …

The End of Wall Street?

If you haven’t seen it already, there is a fantastic article by Michael Lewis entitled The End …

How come you don’t just start trading full time?

How come you don’t just start trading full time? Wouldn’t it be more lucrative then working the …

Do you manage money?

A reader by the name of Mike asked me the other day whether I manage money. The …

Keeping Perspective – You’re Not “A Trader”

One of the things everyone who trades needs to do is to keep things in perspective. Trading …

Should you treat trading like a hobby? How’s your discipline?

The Winning Mental Edge blog (thanks to Charles Kirk for the link) speaks on the topic of deciding …

Why I do this trading education thing

I’m going to share with you today a two stories that comes from my volleyball coaching which I think …

What are three things traders can do to coach themselves?

Brett Steenbarger asked me to help him with the new book he’s writing on the subject of …

Bank Fed Borrowing Doesn’t Mean Rapidly Rising Money Supply

Do me a big favor. Don’t be this guy. “Banks’ borrowing at the rate climbed to a …

Being a top 5% trader with almost no effort

I took part in this year’s CNBC portfolio challenge. Well, I sort of did. I’m not a …

Why New Traders Fail

There is a discussion on the Trade2Win forum regarding the reason why new traders so often fail. …

The Knowing-Doing Gap

I think most of us realize pretty early on in our trading development that there can be …

I’m a stressed out investor!

A question got asked on Jason Kelly’s blog recently. I’m new to investing, and having trouble dealing with market …

Respecting Your Stops is Easier With Better Stops

Dinosaur Trader wrote a post on his blog about respecting your stops. Basically he’s talking about not …

Trading is All About You

Chris Perunna wrote Focus on You on his blog yesterday. It echos a lot of what I …

How Do I Know When to Enter a Trade?

The following question came in yesterday concerning support & resistance and trade entries. I am fairly new …

One of the Greatest Stories You Will Ever Hear

I need to take a break from trading for a moment. If you haven’t already heard the …

If You’re Going to Provide Advice on Trading, Don’t Be Ignorant

Yesterday I started answering a LinkedIn question post about trading for a living. I mentioned then that …

Learning Trading from Books, Courses, and Websites

I frequently come across traders in websites and on their blogs talking about the value or uselessness …

Bear Stearns and Enron – Learn the Lessons of Diversification

Diversification is talked about quite readily in investing discussions. We all know it’s something very worth applying …

Making Money While Being Wrong Most of the Time

Last week was pretty poor by the standards of the year so far. Among the trading strategies …

The Difference Between Trading and Investing

In a recent post, Chad at the Periodot Capitalist put up a post which talked about things …

Sometimes You Need to Trade Scared

It is very often true that doing the easy thing is not the right thing. I’ve been …

Trading Bias – Do You Do Better Long or Short?

Do you find that you trade better short than long? Or maybe you trade more profitably long …

Should I Use Price Targets in My Trading?

I have come across a number of discussions in forums and on blogs in which people state …

Treat the Disease, Not the Symptoms

I’ve recently been involved in a discussion on the StockTickr blog on the subject of trading mistakes. …

Internet Stocks Crash Redux?

I had an interesting conversation recently. The main subject wasn’t at all about trading or investing, but …

The Superbowl Indicator

I know this might mean a bad year in the stock market for 2008, but I’m pulling …

Did You Freak?

Be honest. Were you freaking out today? For a little while there it was getting kind of …

Increase Your Cash Returns – An Interesting Alternative

I thought I’d share with you something of which I’ve recently become aware. It’s not directly trading, …

Oh, Woe is Me!

Today was an awful day. Well, sort of. OK. I might be getting a bit dramatic here. …

When Free Isn’t and Paying Makes Much More Sense

One of the things that comes up on a fairly regular basis in the forums and other …

Trading Jobs – Making the Transition from a Non-Trading Job

Jobs in trading and the financial markets are the target of many individuals, especially those coming out …

How do you Define Trading Success?

Success is a word that gets tossed around alot in the discussion of trading performance and trader …

Absolutes in Trading Often Mean Absolute Disasters

One of the things that I’ve learned along the way is to be very careful when anyone …

Trading in a Fog

I’m glad I don’t have to actually do any trading today. Thanks to a late night watching …

Don’t Swing too Hard

Have you ever seen a baseball player swing so hard at a pitch that he lost his …

A Set of Trading Rules

There’s a post on the Kirk Report blog which offers up 12 Trading Rules. In general terms …

It’s one thing to know what you should do, another to actually do it.

The following quote from an article on the New York Times web site (Can We Turn Off …

Millionaire Trader Advice

There’s a new book out which is garnering some attention. It’s title is Millionaire Traders and is …

Understand from Where Expert Opinions Come

The development and growth of the internet has been a fantastic boon for folks everywhere. Never has …

news

Ways to approach news events in your trading

News and data events can be very disruptive forces for traders and their performance.

Fundamental trading vs trading on fundamental information

There appears to be a level of confusion among new traders regarding the meaning of fundamental trading. …

Trading competitions are games, nothing more

This week CNBC kicked off it’s Million Dollar Portfolio Challenge. They’ve put plugging the stock trading competition …