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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007by Joe Ross THE TRADE DECISION 1. Never add to a losing position. 2. Always determine a stop and a profit objective before entering a trade. Place stops based on market information, not your account balance. If a “proper” stop is too expensive, don’t do the trade. 3. Remember the “power of a position.” Never [...]
The Best Way to Trade with Limited Capital
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007by Bruce Babcock One of the biggest swindles unscrupulous commodity vendors are pulling is to suggest that you can be a successful commodity trader with minimum capital. In order to sell their trading courses, they claim you can make a fortune starting with whatever amount you currently have available. Most thoughtful experts agree that there [...]
Evaluating a Money Manager
Saturday, December 1st, 2007by Tom Koziol Scams and frauds are designed to take your money through false promises and phony claims. Money management is supposedly designed to increase your net worth. Sometimes these two worlds meet and the results are not in your favor, i.e., you have a considerable decrease in net worth. The information in this article [...]
High Probability Trading
Friday, November 30th, 2007by Neal Hughes – FibMaster Even traders with limited experience start to realize that we are not trying to capture every market move. We want to improve our odds and reduce our frustration by filtering, for high-probability trades. The combination of trend and Fibonacci techniques can provide powerful signals for higher probability trading. We already [...]
Trading for a Living-Part 2
Thursday, November 29th, 2007By Geoff Turnbull In part 1 of this article I started to look at the financial implications of giving up the day job to instead start trading full time for a living. There are more than just monetary considerations as we will see later, but for now, there are some more costs to ponder. More [...]
Taking Profits – A Logical Way
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007by Neal Hughes – FibMaster So much time is spent on entering a trade. Today I want to focus on some exit strategies. This is not a full Fibonacci course, so if you don’t understand the basics I suggest that you visit my website for help with those aspects. Human nature makes trading very challenging. [...]
Trading for a Living – Part 1
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007There can’t be many traders who haven’t at least considered the idea of telling the boss what they think of him, throwing it all in and going off to trade the stock market for a living. It’s a big risk financially, and that uncertainty is what stops most from jumping ship. Is it really possible [...]
Essential Elements of a Successful Trader
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007Courage Under Stressful Conditions When the Outcome is Uncertain All the foreign exchange trading knowledge in the world is not going to help, unless you have the nerve to buy and sell currencies and put your money at risk. As with the lottery “You gotta be in it to win it”. Trust me when I [...]
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