The stock market is trading in a period of incredible low volume, yet it is trading at all time highs. There's not a lot of conviction being shown at the moment to drive prices much higher, but there isn't any reason (yet) to drive it lower either. In this podcast [...]
On social media, and in particular, financial Twitter and StockTwits, people show how much emotion they carry into their trading. This is dangerous for your trading, and often times leads to horrible decisions about buying and selling a stock, because it is our emotions guiding our trading rather than clear [...]
There are times when you simply shouldn't be trading at all. What are those times and why are they so bad for your stock trading as a whole. In this podcast episode I talk about my experiences in swing-trading and day-trading and why you should avoid the stock market entirely [...]
We all know about greed and fear as primary emotions that affect us in our trading decisions, but what about HOPE? Isn't hope a good thing? In life, yes, but in the stock market, absolutely not! Hope will increase our losses and cause us to make the worst of decisions. [...]
This is by far one of the most difficult topics of trading stocks: Managing your emotions. I realize, as traders, we all have emotions that can affect are ability to trade, but it is how we deal with those emotions (i.e. Fear, Greed, Anxiety, Ego) that allows us to overcome [...]
How to avoid a large drawdown in your trading account This is the kind of post that no one ever wants to utilize or need, because it will mean that they are either in a trading slump where most of their trades are going against them, or worse, they are [...]
I don’t talk about it nearly as much as I should, but as traders we are constantly talking about the need to make our trading an emotionless endeavor. And I’m here to say that is frankly impossible to do. You can’t get rid of emotions just as much as a [...]
Popular thought among traders is that emotional people aren’t suited to trade in the stock market. But is that really true? When I took the Myers-Briggs test to see what I would come out as, my reading was an INFP. I – Introversion N – Intuitive F – Feelings P [...]
Any time you are trading on a roll, it is easy to start watching the dollars in the account. For example, today, I bought into Amazon (AMZN) at $581, it is now at $594. I bought Netflix (NFLX) yesterday at $100.24 and now it is at $104. Not to mention [...]
