Polemic's Trading Aphorisms - Never short the Dax when you think it's blinding obvious to short the Dax. - The best time to enter a position is just after you have been stopped out of it. - Correlations work really well until you put the trade on. - Buy low, stopped lower. - Selling new highs is like buses. You wait ages for one, but as soon as you step aboard another one comes along. - Adding to winners gets your stops done faster. - When all the talk is about Italian banks, buy. - If it begins with a J it will have your arm off. - Academics aren’t rich because they missed the trade whilst writing about the last one. - The FTSE responds to many things, just not the things you know. - There is always an algo ahead of you, get over it. - A forgotten order is always a losing order. - Dealing from a train on a tunnel ridden route makes Russian Roulette look lame. - "China to blow up one day" will remain a meme longer than you can remain short. - You will never be the first to trade the news, so fade it and hope. - If there is absolutely no chance of your stop being done on the Sunday night open, it will be. - It's less embarrassing to say you were up watching porn than the Chinese open. - If someone mentions Fibonacci, there's no data out. - "Italian banks to blow up Italy one day" will remain a meme longer than you can remain short. - Most short term positions end up in long term books. - Whatever you tell your mum, you are gambling. - If Gundlach is talking your book, take it back to the library. H/T to Polemic