For years I thought the bane of my trading attempts was my desire to be right about a trade. I noticed that when I was convinced I was right I had...
Great question. I've read all the answers and thought I'd post since none of them go much beyond the superficial reasons stock prices move up. But...
Thanks for the input. Based on the options I'm trading, I think 1/50 would be more than enough. I guess I can use that figure as a base line...
My goal in trading has always been to be able to do it without stress, anxiety, fear, hesitation, worry, or anything else that would impact my...
How did you come to the answer of 50 times? Experience? or something else? I'm actually just trading the options. Not exercising or rolling....
There are 3 things that make you successful. Read any self-help book and you'll find 2 of them...desire, and talent. Or hard work and skill. Or...
Looking for clarification on something I've never had to deal with before. I was wondering if anyone had done research or knows of statistical...
It was the only one that would get me where I want to be. I don't want to work for a living. I want a relatively passive income with limitless...
I'm sure I've posted on this thread before. Whatever I said, I was wrong. The last thing I learned before becoming successful did not happen a...
I agree with this. The reason the market has made a new high while unemployment is still not recovered, nor the rest of our economy, is simply...
I wanted to post this up, I just invented a reality based game to simulate trading for a living with real money. I made it after realizing my...
It's still in the process. I just wanted to see if everyone else thought he built a good case in the psychology section, and if it was...
You might do okay for half the day, but I wouldn't think a 75% retracement in one day would lead to any significant drop tomorrow. The valleys are...
+1 for daniel OP, something I did that helped me immediately is to cover up the price ticker and the flashing red and green streaming quotes....
Since we're bragging, 6'1, 205, full time swing trading from home for 6 years, 30 years old, 4:46 mile this year.
congrats to achilles for resurrecting a zombie thread. From 2008 dead till the middle of 2013! Awesome.
You've got it backwads. The problem with trading is that, long before any of us started doing it, we DID build connections between brain cells to...
I don't think you know how an edge works. An edge is not something that gives you an advantage over other individual traders. It is something that...
I can show you two options. Option 1, pick an entry point somewhat at random (within 10 or 20 cents of your target) and place a stop at a place...
I did some emotional analysis of my trading and found something that logically is wierd. It seems that the better the outcome -from my biggest...
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