The use of margin, buying out of the money calls, doubling down on losing trades - what does this all have in common? Blowing your trading account. In this podcast episode, Ryan highlights one trader's journey of blowing up 20 years of life savings on 0DTE calls and TSLA leap [...]
Doubling down on your trades can come at a huge cost for traders, resulting in staying in a trader longer than you ever expected, at a price you never imagined. What should a trader do when they find themselves in this position? Should they continue to double down, or cut [...]
Have you started trading recently and just find that this market is constantly beating you up? Every time you get into a new swing trade, the trade moves against you and stops you out? What do you do, and does experience help in understanding this better? In this podcast episode, [...]
How do you manage swing trades in a market rattled with major headline events - particularly war? How does war impact the market and is it something that we should be considering in our swing trading decisions? I also cover how taking partial profits along the way leads to better [...]
When you chart out your technical analysis and the trade setup has a promising reward risk ratio, along with solid support underneath, you've planned out where to put the stop-loss and you simply just feel good about the trade, but then everything goes wrong on the trade and you find [...]
Expanding on previous episodes, Ryan talks in more detail about the benefits of keeping various strategies and time frames in separate accounts and what that looks like from swing trading, to dividend stocks, to long-term trading. In addition, Ryan talks about the importance of cash as a position in uncertain [...]
What are the key elements of journaling your trades and keeping track of them? In this podcast episode, Ryan discusses the particulars for journaling and some of the unique aspects of his methods that will help you better understand your short-comings as a trader. Click here to subscribe: https://shareplanner.com/tradingblock
Back on May 18, 2023, Ryan published a podcast episode that discussed whether shorting stocks was dead, and whether we should only be focused on being long or in cash. In this podcast, Ryan revisits this question and whether shorting is STILL dead. Click here to subscribe: https://shareplanner.com/tradingblock
In uncertain times for the stock market, is going all cash as a flight to safety a poor decision? Or should one toughen up and trade through those periods of difficulty? In this podcast episode, Ryan will address the merits of going cash and making sure your long exposure is [...]
Is right now the time to consider buying into the bond market as prices are hitting their lowest levels in over a decade? In this podcast episode, I give you my take on how I am playing the bond market right now, using a very slow and steady approach. Click [...]
The ARM IPO came out this week, hailed as the next Nvidia, and retail traders bought it with vengeance. But are buying stock IPOs a wise move for traders? Should you buy ARM IPO or the future Instacart IPO? In this podcast episode, I'll talk about whether this is the [...]
Let's face it, there are times in life where it is simply bad to be swing trading. A loved one dies, you're going through divorce, or the financials just don't support it - either way it is important to recognize this, and when to wait for better seasons of trading, [...]
