November 20, 2020
As my focus shifts towards Thanksgiving festivities, other things start to take a back seat. Trading is one of those things. With the market being closed on Thursday followed by the 1 p.m early closing on Friday the day after, the week of Thanksgiving ends up being a slow week for trading.
October 30, 2020
I’ll be the first to admit I don’t know how I graduated from college (Virginia Commonwealth University), I breezed pass high school with a 3.2 gpa without any concrete study skills and I reaped the consequences once college came around with more complex exams in front of me to pass. The reason for that toREAD MORE
October 23, 2020
The objective of selling options is to find that sweet spot where everything falls in place. As a beginner, one of the pro tips I got from coach Tim and still use today was to use the three C’s. Chart, Cushion, and Cash Flow.
October 22, 2020
Good day all, after looking at my portfolio and the action in the overall markets I thought that this would be a good time to discuss the longer-term focus of successful traders. There is a phenomenon that sometimes takes place when you make the transition from a sporadically profitable trader to a more consistently profitableREAD MORE
October 16, 2020
It took me years to understand that trading is mostly about psychology. After you spend a year learning all the strategies, anyone can do it. However, only a few are successful because your brain is conditioned in the wrong way to make money. Here are some hard-learned tips I keep reminding myself to observe and become better a professional trader.
October 2, 2020
It took me years to understand that trading is mostly about psychology. After you spend a year learning all the strategies, anyone can do it. However, only a few are successful because your brain is conditioned in the wrong way to make money. Here are some hard-learned tips I keep reminding myself to observe and become better a professional trader.
September 25, 2020
Any trader will tell you and I learned this over time as well, the difference sometimes between one successful trade over another is how you manage the position.
September 24, 2020
We are going to discuss the two different camps that most people fall into and why the reaction to the movement of the market should be the same regardless of what camp you fall into.
September 18, 2020
“What is your why?” is a question posed to people from all walks of life. Whether it’s asked as part of a success story or someone struggling in need of motivation, from playing sports, business, music, entertainment, or any other platform, the answers will have some variation of:
September 15, 2020
Learn to stay focused, stay in the ‘Zone’ and do not let your mind dwell on the past. The most important time, is right now, live in the moment.
August 20, 2020
How much conviction do you have to your trading plan? Do you have enough confidence in the techniques you use to keep using them after a period of drawdowns?
August 7, 2020
One of the biggest lessons I have learned in the last couple years is that technical trend is EVERYTHING. It supersedes all the news, all the strategies and all the fundamentals. It really can be as simple as reading the trend on the chart that is going to make or break your portfolio.
August 6, 2020
There’s not one way to trade the markets, and developing your trading identity, learning from mistakes, and pushing forward always is the right attitude to have.
July 31, 2020
When you first learned how to trade, what was it that you desired to come out of it?
July 17, 2020
Everyone is looking for that one thing that will catapult them to crazy success. For a golfer, it is that one repeatable swing that bombs down the fairway! For a business person, it may be that one product that is a must-have for everyone.
July 8, 2020
We are continuing our theme of being happy with whatever outcome we end up with, in a trade. If it a losing trade then we get to learn from it and if it is a winning trade then we get to profit from it. That little statement sounds great in theory but in practice, it is much harder to believe.
July 2, 2020
Last week we talked about being happy with whatever outcome we have in our trades. We talked about this because we really never know what a trade will ultimately do.
June 5, 2020
Can I be blunt and tell you that the market does not have to make sense to you. It does not have to make sense to any of us. Even the smartest human cannot make sense of it, so let your brain take a break and just accept it as a chart analyst. Trade the chart guys. There is no other answer. None of us really know what is going on or what’s going to happen. The only thing left is price action. So, let price action be the king and follow the trend.
April 17, 2020
First off, I hope that you are all doing ok and taking care of yourselves and your loved ones. A special shout out and thank you to all the essential workers that are working tirelessly through this crisis.
March 20, 2020
I hope you are all doing ok taking care of yourselves and your loved ones during this current situation we are have found ourselves in. It’s absolutely mind-blowing that a month ago when I wrote about the trading time capsule markets were hitting all-time highs and now we are sitting at May 2017 levels on the S&P 5000.
