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Feb 6, 14 •
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Maria Iacob
Comments Off on European retail sales return to growth at the start of 2014 – Markit as consumer confidence in Switzerland reaches a recent high
Asian markets were calmer in the overnight-early morning trading session as Australian equities have been buoyed by strong economic data, but the overall mood has improved from a cautious start in Europe and in the futures markets as traders await monetary...
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Feb 6, 14 •
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Maria Iacob
Comments Off on Recording the results of our trades and why it’s so important to keep records
How’s your Sharpe ratio* at the moment, or your Sortino ratio*, are they where you’d expect them to be, perhaps after a full twelve months of trading using your revised (tweaked) trading strategy? Even with that one introductory sentence we know a...
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Feb 5, 14 •
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Maria Iacob
Comments Off on What time frame to trade and why it’s important to match it to your trading style and overall trading strategy
There are many contentious views with regards to trading off certain time frames. Many experienced traders will suggest that you should be able to spot price action across any time frame as it develops from its beginning, especially if you are what we often...
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Feb 4, 14 •
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Maria Iacob
Comments Off on Getting back into the game after an absence; how getting back into trading should prove to be a profitable decision
It’s quite a common occurrence for us to take breaks from trading. In point of fact in many ways it can be a very healthy and cathartic exercise to simply stop trading, to re-evaluate your personal circumstances, take a ‘time out’ and come...
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Jan 31, 14 •
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Maria Iacob
Comments Off on The parabolic stop and reverse (PSAR) – joining the dots with the king of indicators
OK, perhaps we’re exaggerating with the article title there, but if there’s one indicator available from our extensive library that can help swing/trend traders in their quest to follow price, then the PSAR is surely it. Those simple dots that...
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Jan 30, 14 •
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Maria Iacob
Comments Off on As a novice trader what have you learned so far?
So you come into this industry (finding it by accident or design) bright eyed, innocent and with massive over ambitions. Then after a few months of fighting with our friend Mr. Market you begin to accept that the ‘game’ is not a walk in the park...
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Jan 29, 14 •
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Maria Iacob
Comments Off on Which works best for you; short or longer term trading? Why not both?
There is a certain trading myth that has stood the test of time. It concerns picking your trading time frame and method in order to ‘match’ your personality. The myth suggests that if you’re a adrenaline junky you should trade off tick...
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Jan 28, 14 •
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Maria Iacob
Comments Off on How to cope when the markets conduct a hand brake turn with very little in the way of warning and how to exercise patience
Regular readers will notice that we’ve used the strong bullish momentum move on the DJIA, witnessed breaking to the upside on or around December 18th, as an example of how fundamentals work in our markets. At the end of the FOMC meeting in December the...
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Jan 24, 14 •
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Maria Iacob
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Revisiting some of the costly mistakes we made as novice traders can prove to be a cathartic and healthy exercise. Particularly if the mistakes taught us valuable lessons and helped nudge us in a better direction, causing us to eventually find a better place...
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Jan 23, 14 •
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Maria Iacob
Comments Off on How cutting your losers early can dramatically improve your bottom line
If we assembled a group of traders’ together in a conference room, ensuring they were all of different levels of experience and success and then we posed a few basic trading questions to them, the answers we’d receive back would be fascinating....