Monthly Archives: June 2013

What Type Of Trader Are You?

I want to make sure that we’re all on the same page regarding our involvement in the markets as an position trader, swing trader, or day trader. Notice the delineation between the types of participation possibilities. I’ve found that traders … Continue reading

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What’s The Hubbub About Interest Rates?

Today’s close will confirm or refute the last four days worth of action. Continue reading

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You Think You’re Trading? They See You Coming, Sucka!

What makes you think you’re trading the stock market when you get a stock pick from one of your dozen or so newsletters and you blindly take the trade? Continue reading

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Why Are We Trading? Money, What Else?

…why, given all the uncertainty, all the risk, do any of us want to trade the market at all? The obvious answer is reward, but we also know the market just doesn’t give you a reward because you were nice enough to join the party. Continue reading

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And old father bear said, “Who’s your daddy?”

If you’re not looking at all this market action as opportunity, than you’re not thinking like a trader. You must be one of those “investors” we hear so much about. Continue reading

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Tower of Super Mega Uber-Babel!

Furthermore, because of cocooning, I may have bamaged my drain thereby becoming zombified, while simultaneously morphing into an interman, an evolutionary extension of humanity- intermanity. Continue reading

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Decisions. Decisions – Buy The Stock Or Buy The Option?

My decision to hold or jettison the trade is driven by the stock price action, not by the price of the option, and never by the option chart itself. Continue reading

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I Love Being Right And Wrong.

I love winning and being right. I hate losing and being wrong. If you hold a trade too long, if you overstay your welcome, you can feel like you’re in Don Henley’s “Hotel California.” Continue reading

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Fear And Greed: Can’t Trade With It, Can’t Trade Without It.

Albert Einstein remarked, “Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.” The stupidity referred to is well entrenched and documented in the actions of global governments and central bankers, especially the actions of the past two, five, ten, twenty, … Continue reading

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