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Buy and Hold: How to Perpetuate Your Investment Losses

A recent cartoon in my daily newspaper showed two guys sitting in a bar. One is saying to the other: “I did learn something from my broker…how to diversify my investment losses.” While this struck …

How To Make, And Keep, Money Trading Stocks

If you are serious about making and keeping money by trading stocks, then there are three things you need to do, and do well. Money management Orders Trading system Money management Money manage…

Precision Money Management

A model of a natural relationship between trading system performance, trade position size, stop loss settings and profit goals. The model consists of algebraic equations that specify the trade size and stop loss settings needed to meet profit goals over a specified time period for any consistently used trading system for which historical performance data is available. Examples are provided.

What is a Trading Plan – and Why You Need One?

Contrary to popular belief, you do not need to know where market tops and bottoms are to make money. In fact, that is where most people will go wrong. The best traders in the world realize that neither they, nor anyone else knows what is going to happen. Sure, everyone can point out tops or bottoms after the fact, but no matter what anyone tells you or tries to sell you, NO ONE can pick tops and bottoms consistently. This is why you need to understand what a trading plan is.

Losses, Not Profits, Will Stop You from Trading in the Market

It is very unlikely that you will stop trading if your system is trading profitably. However, if you are in a trading year that takes too big a loss, you are likely to stop trading, even if your system has been tested and shown to make a profit over a longer time period. Therefore, it is important to understand why losses not profits will stop you from trading.

Tips to Finding Other People’s Simple Trading Plans

Carry out or perform your trading plan that is modeled after someone elses can build an excellent cash flow quickly. Incredibly, thousands of experts are performing this task as you read this article. This gold mine can be implimented by simply learning, understanding and finding other people’s simple trading plans… use these tips and you will uncover secrets that the experts might not know. This, my friend, is how you accomplish this task.

The Secret Art of Backtesting

Lack of confidence usually forces traders to question their own trading systems. They give into the temptation to modify their trading plan with devastating consequences. This temptation spawns on by a string of losing trades or an opportunity to replace their trading system with a whiz-bang indicator that is usually talked about in traders chat forums. This seems like the answer to all traders’ prayers, but that is all the more reason why you need to learn all about the top news secret art of back testing.

The Secret Method to Selecting a Winning Trading System

This is perhaps one of the most important articles I have written. The methodology discussed ultimately determines your success or failure in the market. It is equally vital that you have the discipline to stick with picking an effective trading plan, but you must have regulation in order to follow your new trading system. I cannot develop your methodology for you. I can make suggestions and put forth examples, but you ultimately must devise a system that is your own, because you must be able to follow it. In order to follow your new trading system, I discuss why it is important for your trading system to reflect your own personality.

The Secret to More Winning Trades is as Simple as Avoiding This Common Mistake

If you’re a normal human being, your need to feel good about yourself probably causes you to sell your winners too soon – and — your need to avoid feelings of regret, causes you to hang on to your l…

Lights of the Stock Market

The most important light that will stop you from losing money in the stock market.