March Trading Madness

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I received this email from an SMB trader after the close today: After watching some of the VCU v. Drexel college basketball game last night I wanted to take the VCU head coach’s mantra of “Aggressive, Confident, Loose” to trading. I was more aggressive than usual with my size in the plays I was involved in. However, I was doing … Read More

The CCL Trade

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After the open we meet in our training room to review the open with some of our newer traders. We talked CCL, Carnival Corporation, for the midday and into the close. Before that we went over what we liked about CCL and what we didn’t. What we didn’t like: 1) Future bookings to probably decrease because of the accident. 2) … Read More

Add a Little Nuance

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Hi Mike, hoping to borrow just a bit of your time for another trading question. I continue to find that the most difficult part of trading is deciding when to take off a winning trade. I believe the problem is that I am not confident and decisive enough in my plan when I enter trades. When it comes to my … Read More