Friday Feature – Women in Trading: Really, that’s it?
June 19, 2020
When my son was little his famous words to me when I did something that did not please him like I don’t know…. punish him for bad behavior was “Mommy, I’m not your friend!”
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Friday Feature: Compounding Growth
March 20, 2020
alk and discuss a concept that I personally love about trading and that is compounding growth. How do you turn $10,000 into $100,000, then into $1,000,000? The answer is a good system while reinvesting your gains to create a compounding growth effect. Come check it out in today’s Friday Feature Blog.
Friday Feature: Find What You Love
February 21, 2020
Do you love what you do? Do you get excited for that market open? I know I do because I have a trading system that I love implementing.
Friday Feature: Patience is Challenging
January 17, 2020
Patience is the hardest part, but you must stack it against how long it took you to get the results you don’t want. Sometimes it can be a lifetime, but the best part about it is: it won’t take you a lifetime to fix it.
Tackle Today: Getting Back on the Horse
January 13, 2020
“Getting back on the horse” is an idiom referring to you returning to or resuming an activity that you had previously failed at or had difficulty with. Because we are human, we constantly will come up short on occasion.
Friday Feature: The 6th (and 7th) Sense
January 10, 2020
Do you ever wonder why trading can feel so hard? The answer is simple. Humans are naturally bad traders. It’s true. Did you know the body has more than just the five widely known senses? Today I want to focus on senses numbers 6 and 7 and why they make bad traders.
Tackle Today: Lessons on Investing, Collection 2
October 30, 2019
In Lessons on Investing Collection II, we will continue to show you how everyday situations can teach you more about trading and investing than you can imagine.
Friday Feature: Fitness Meets Trading Part 2
June 21, 2019
There are adjustments in life we all must make and those adjustments may not be handled appropriately after the first time.
Friday Feature: Fitness Meets Trading
May 24, 2019
Let’s have our food and our game plan ready before the day begins.
Tackle Today: Empty Garden 🥀
February 6, 2019
How successful traders and investors are born? That is a million-dollar question. The search for the Holy Grail. Our answer to that question is simple: you must master the Holy Trinity of Trading.
Tackle Today: When certainty becomes a ghost
September 12, 2018
≈ I don’t believe in ghosts, but I know they do exist. ≈ The financial markets are composed of, basically, two kinds of individuals: the ones that don’t know and the ones that think they know. Traders in the second group are doomed to fail. Because they think they know, they usually don’t leave roomREAD MORE
Tales of a Technician: Perfecting Your Process Part Deux
February 22, 2017
Today we continue our carefully crafted tale on how to perfect your process. Last week we highlighted the phrase, “be process-oriented, not results-oriented.” If you’ve fully bought into the idea that your process reigns supreme, it’s time to move to the next step.
Tales of a Technician: Perfecting Your Process
February 15, 2017
Traders should be process oriented, not results oriented.
Tales of a Technician: The Two-Handed Economist
October 28, 2015
Economists have a penchant for hedged statements; particularly grizzled veterans fully aware of the folly surrounding overly certain forecasts. Peddling predictions is a difficult craft for the intellectually honest, or at least those with half a brain, as the future is always uncertain.
Trading System Basics, Part II
July 6, 2015
This is part II of the newsletter on Trading System Basics. For part I, go back and read the newsletter located here: https://tackletrading.com/tackle-newsletter-system-basics-part-i-6292015/ by Tim Justice Position Sizing Position sizing is the process of deciding how many shares to buy. While there are several approaches to position sizing, we will explore three: 1. Scaling inREAD MORE
Trading System Basics, Part I
June 30, 2015
Portfolio Management by Tim Justice “There are old traders; there are bold traders; but there are no old, bold traders.” ~Anonymous In the past we’ve discussed different types of analysis designed to aid your trading. One type is the fundamental approach, which involves closely examining the company to get an impression of growth potential. We canREAD MORE
Creating Your Own Trading Plan
January 25, 2015
Investing successfully requires a plan. As you build your trading business, you need to continually develop, refine, and adjust that plan. Recent volatility in products like Crude Oil, the Swiss Franc, individual stocks, gold, and certain other sectors reminds us all that we need to build money management into that plan. Controlling risk is notREAD MORE