10 life lessons I’ve learned from the markets
Trading has taught me much more than patterns of supply and demand.
How trading strategy and psychology fit together
One of the things I try to emphasize to traders is that many minutes and hours of preparation can go into a single good trade idea.
Approaching trading with an empty mind
Once a trader forms an opinion, he or she is more likely to overweight information consistent with this view than information that is contradictory.
What short-term traders need to know
Here’s a favorite technique of mine that helps me track the short-term trending (or non-trending) of the ES market.
Tracking the last hour of trading
In the early portion of the recent bull market, there was net buying during the last hour of trading. Since 2005, we have seen net selling in the final hour.
A lesson in trading psychology
If your setups are valid, there are only two kinds of trades…
Why last week’s price action is bullish
Science, properly executed, is a blending of the creative and the rigorous.
There are two kinds of traders
Average traders change when they need to. Great traders, like great companies, seek improvement before things have gone wrong.
Making friends with market emotions
I have personally worked with a number of traders who have made one million dollars or more in a year for multiple years.
How to prepare for the day’s trading
If we know what to expect in a market day, it provides us with a yardstick by which to measure the trading session.
Boom and bust: what we can learn from the SOX
Semiconductor stocks have been weak of late…
A different kind of market indicator — time
Most market indicators identify the presence of a particular market condition…