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Am I boring you?
Many people (me included) began trading because we didn’t like the nine-to-five grind, or being beholden to a boss. It can be a liberating way to make your own decisions, stretch your brainpower, and...
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Unreliable friends: is it true that the trend is your friend?
The question I had from a Trader’s Bulletin member this week was about following the trend … we’re told that ‘the trend is our friend’ and that we should look for longer-term trends, and trade in...
View ArticleEscape the Trading Conveyor Belt
This week I’m looking to reset the amount of time I spend screen-watching. It’s a habit I get into when I’m making training videos … and it drags me into all kinds of negative trading behaviours. Yes,...
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Market noise: how to clean up your act
Yesterday, as I drew extra lines all over my charts, I reminded myself of what I said just last week … about the limited attention we have, and how we need to focus in on what’s valuable to us, and...
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Why your trading method is failing
Last weekend, an event in Scotland hit headlines around the world … “Police were called out and children cried” said 9 News, Australia No, it wasn’t the rugby. Here’s how USA Today described it: “a...
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Bad cable management, XY problems and Alligator solutions
There was a lot of noise coming from my son’s room. I’m talking about the sound of power tools. He came downstairs a few times, asking where he could find more drill bits, and I pointed him in the...
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3 Secrets to stop placement
When a stop level does get hit, it’s easy to think that its due to bad stop placement … if I’d just had it a bit wider … but the reality is that even the smartest stops will get hit. If your stops...
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The best volatility stop indicators put to the test
Adding a volatility stop to your trade setups is a really powerful way to keeping your trades in-line with current market behaviour. Volatility changes, from month to month, day to day, hour to hour,...
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Your obsession with incremental growth is holding you back
Incremental growth .. it doesn’t seem like a bad aim, does it? To make steady gains in our trading? Of course, there’ll be some bumps along the way, but we can hold our course on the path from A to B...
View ArticleAre you ready to go LIVE?
I’m great at demo trading. I don’t cheat with my trades, I don’t fiddle with my stops, I keep calm about losses, and never lose any sleep worrying about how they’re doing. But the point of trading is...
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