Trading Rules

It was late in the middle of the night on August 9th, 2011, the whole Mallory clan had been fast asleep, except for me of course. I was up pacing across the living room of my house. Tired and weary, but unable to get my mind off the markets, and more importantly the risks that

For the great majority of traders and investors out there, trading in these turbulent times have been difficult and taxing on the mind and body. I consider this market, much more difficult than anything I've traded in recent memory - even 2008. The reason being is there is absolutely no overarching trend defining this market

It's important to have a set of rules that you trade by. That doesn't mean that you follow them each and every time, because no stock and no trade is the same. As a result, some flexibility is required, but overall, you should have good set of rules when trading small cap stocks (or any

Every year millions of people are making New Years resolutions and most of them are not even kept beyond the first week. For traders, resolutions are very important, or at least the establishing of new goals and expectations of one’s self in lieu of the trading year ahead This vastly important to the improvement and

If you are not going to use stops, because either 1) you prefer mental stops 2) the MM’s will “steal” my shares or 3) you’re afraid of it popping back up as soon as you get stopped out, is no excuse to not use stops, in fact, if you don’t do it, you better confine

Recently one of my loyal Twitter followers asked me to write an article about missing a trade that you know you should have taken and the regret that follows the missed opportunity. I’ve got to admit, that this has happened many times to me, especially early on in my trading career. Here are a few

I received an excellent question from one of our loyal members in regards to the short-trade I made in QQQQ today and it is as follows: I am having a hard time with the math on how you came up with a $212 profit using a $50,000 account with your short in QQQQ today. It

One of the most often asked questions that we get is how to trade and profit in a sideways market. Profit potential in flat to sideways trading sessions does exist using day-trading strategies, and for the purposes of this article, day-trading is the time frame that we are going to focus on. However, one of

Often the most exciting, yet most hazardous time to trade in the stock market is the first 30 minutes of each market session. Those first 30 minutes, if you are not disciplined, can reek havoc on your portfolio. It is that time where most of your amateurs will watch what is going on in the

General Market direction is extremely important in determining whether we choose to buy or sell a stock. In particular, if the market is under selling pressures we will trade “net-short” on the market, and if the market is rallying or the demand outpaces the supply of stocks, then we will generally be “net-long”. There are