“Grow or die.” Phil Knight- Co-Founder of Nike As we start the new year, developing good habits is essential to improving your trading performance this year. One excellent habit to develop is working on your trading game on the weekend. Here we try and help you with that with trading education and ideas to improve for you below. We try … Read More
Gain exposure to multiple setups with edge
So you are ready to take trading seriously. You’ve setup your trading station. You have read some books and watched some trading videos. You have saved the capital needed. You have the time to work on your trading game. You know it will take some time to become good. Trading is what you want to do. Awesome! I love it. … Read More
How to end your trading frustration by actually profiting on your awesome trading ideas
You develop an idea before the open. No, you develop an awesome trading idea before the open. You wait for the entry and take it. You get stopped out. And then the stock does EXACTLY what you thought it would. So this is the part where some would tell you to be calm and “trade in the zone”. Who are … Read More
Weekend learning lessons for traders from the prop desk – November 10, 2019
I have been off the grid the end of this week and weekend, attending Tony Robbins’ Unlease the Power Within. I found Tony’s priming technique particularly useful to add as a strategy for myself. A constant theme at the seminar was “no one ever became great without a coach, mentor or teacher.” This would be true for all the top … Read More
Weekend Learning Lessons for Traders from the Prop Desk – November 3, 2018
We closed out a very opportunistic October this week seeing some traders we work with have enormous success. One elite trader, with whom I work with closely, surpassed 1 million in net profits. Another made over 500k in the bounce off SPY 260 and the China/US trade war. Another had his first six figure month, doubling down on collaboration with … Read More
Weekend learnings lessons for traders from our trading desk
You are a developing trader aspiring to be an elite trader. They have it all figured out you think. You can’t wait to acheive their level of success so you can stop worrying about all the nonsense in your trading, all the terrible trading in your trading. I am furtunate to coach elite traders at our firm and a select … Read More
The issue that might be holding you back as a trader
You make a profitable trade and then groan that you were not big enough. If you could just trade your best trades bigger, you would make much more! But then you also find an A+ setup (your favorite trades), put on max risk, take a loss, and then grumble that you should have lost less. I certainly have been there. … Read More