Tag Archives: perspective

Make sure your instincts match your environment

Well, my time out west is nearly at its end. It’s back to the Northeast first thing …

The value and usefulness of inflation data

Yesterday the US CPI inflation figures were released. There was, predictably, much talk about the figures on …

Accept and recognize your mistakes

One of the things that can cause major problems in your trading is the failure to accept …

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Trading for a Living vs Trading for Wealth Building

This posts looks at how trading for a living and trading for the purpose of increasing your wealth can differ.

Fear is healthy, greed is good

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

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Trading Coaching and Mentoring

A question that was posed to me following on my review of Brett Steenbarger’s new book Enhancing …

Trading as a team activity

One of my personal issues with trading is how individual and solitary it can be. For a …

Cross-over lessons for trading

Are you aware that I coach competitive collegiate volleyball? If not you are now! This time of …

I admit it. I don’t trade for a living.

I received an email recently from a gentleman who accused me of not really making a living …

Trading doesn’t just mean stocks

For most people, especially those who either aren’t involved in the markets or haven’t been for long, …

Trading Courses: Save Your Money!

The other day I was having a conversation with a guy in the futures brokerage business.  We …

Trading vs. Investing

There is a question which is sometimes asked by those new to the financial markets, and even …

Trading vs. Gambling

Last weekend I was in Las Vegas – strictly a business trip. Although I’ve been to that …