Should we seek to be happy all-the-time as a trader? No, says the research. Eric Barker, at his Barking Up the Wrong Tree blog, asks a question: “Should we try to be happy all the time?” It’s a good question and he answers it with one word: no. Now, he isn’t knocking happiness. He’s only pointing that context matters and … Read More
NFLX Buyers Running the Show
In yesterday’s AM Meeting we talked about NFLX. It appeared to be getting ready for an explosive move. The narrowing of its trading range as well as several tests of both the top and bottom of the range set it up for a large move when it finally broke. I laid out the bear case on a break through 180/179 … Read More
Forex Training: How Long Does It Take To Get Good?
I get this question all the time and it is a good question. People these days don’t have the time to invest years in this business unless it proves to be financially rewarding along the way. There are so many educators and so much information available today, yet it doesn’t seem to change the well known failure rate. So what … Read More
Art Therapy for Your Trading
I received an awesome email teaching me about an interesting concept for our trading: art therapy. I thought I would share it with the trading community. Last time on your webinar you asked what is art therapy? It’s kind of like when a kid goes to a child psychologist and in order for the psychologist to figure out what’s going … Read More
Crackberry is Back!
My best stock in 2007 was RIMM. It had an incredible run trading up over 400% as AAPL made the world believe that smartphones were going to become a mainstream consumer product. The massive move in RIMM offered a multitude of short term trading setups. Several years later after the smartphone market exploded it was clear that there were two … Read More
[Recording] The Playbook: The Future of Prop Trading
If you missed this Webinar with Mike Bellafiore, author of the “trading classic” One Good Trade, on “The Future of Prop Trading: Introducing the Multi-Product, Multi-Market Discretionary Quant Trader”, you can watch the recording now. *No Relevant Positions
Time & Price
This afternoon I tweeted that price was insufficient to confirm a move and that you need time as well. What does this mean? As traders we attempt to capture a new trend in the market we are trading. One of the most commonly used signals for a new trend is a powerful change in price. I have heard many traders … Read More