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5 Traits of Highly Effective Financiers
This is a guest post by Heather Johnson.Every young entrepreneur
wants to be the next Warren Buffett. Dreams of emerging from humble beginnings to become world’s the next
eccentric billionaire are a dime a dozen in this day and age. However, few aspiring investors take the time
to really evaluate how the successful became so, dismissing them as fiscal
savants, economic prophets, or simply lucky bastards. While this glib revisionism can be comforting
to those who never ach... Continue reading Comments (1) / Link to this topic - http://www.learning-to-invest.com/ 5-Traits-of-Highly-Effective-Financiers--78.html Testing time, Day 2 Didn’t have time
to update yesterday’s post so I’ll continue with this new one. I haven’t placed
any trades yet but I have worked out 4 different chart templates with
indicators on them to see if any of them work or could work after some changes.
Template 1
This chart
template uses 50-period and 14-period EMA’s for trends. Due to my observations
yesterday I will use Aroon to set my entry points. I am not sure about stop
loss and exit yet, but I hope to get them in place soon as... Continue reading Comments (0) / Link to this topic - http://www.learning-to-invest.com/ Testing-time-Day-2--70.html My own trading plan
In my previous post I talked about the general way the trading plan should be created for yourself. If you have read it, then you have seen that in order to create a good trading plan you do need to be pretty much 100% honest with yourself an usually you wouldn’t really like to share it with anyone else. But in my case I will have to humiliate myself a bit and say it all out loud, right here. Don’t laugh! Or if you do, be sure to post your constructive criticism to the comments section. This t... Continue reading Comments (2) / Link to this topic - http://www.learning-to-invest.com/ My-own-trading-plan--68.html Creating a trading plan
Creating your own trading plan is one of the most important things you will do before starting to trade. The second one would be following your plan at all times. First thing to do is to learn to know yourself, as this makes it easier to create a trading plan that actually would fit YOU. You need to understand your own emotions, why you do things and what affects you. You need to understand your own psyche. You need to know about yourself to keep the emotions (fear & greed) as far from you... Continue reading Comments (0) / Link to this topic - http://www.learning-to-invest.com/ Creating-a-trading-plan--66.html Results of the trading competitions and next week
Simply put, the trading competition went straight to hell. Ok, it wasn't that bad, but during the 4 weeks the competition lasted I only traded on two days, altogether made 12 trades. Out of which 7 were winning trades and 5 were losing trades. Overally I produced no profit, but rather a small minus. Why? Two main reasons. When doing those trades I did them for the simple reason of doing trades not based on some great analysis. I just didn't feel I'm capable of doing the trades just not yet, bu... Continue reading Comments (0) / Link to this topic - http://www.learning-to-invest.com/ Results-of-the-trading-competitions-and-next-week--65.html Trading rules - something new to think about
I have talked about money management and trading rules before. Now, instead of repeating the old things, here are some new things to consider. Making trades vs taking profitWhen making trades don't think about profit. Only think whether the certain trade would be a successful one. If you make the trade because you have a desire to make profit then it tends to become an emotional trade and that's not good. Rather, make the trade because your analysis show it would be a successful one, not becau... Continue reading Comments (0) / Link to this topic - http://www.learning-to-invest.com/ Trading-rules---something-new-to-think-about--64.html The game of probabilities
In this post I have no intention to dive deep into this topic. However, I think it would be interesting to look at the market as a game of probabilities. Good poker players use the probability theory all the time. They know what is the % probability that one or another starting hand has won in the past, they know the probablilty of making their hand after the flop and so on. They also consider the probability of someone bluffing, considering how a certain player has played before, how he has d... Continue reading Comments (0) / Link to this topic - http://www.learning-to-invest.com/ The-game-of-probabilities--62.html What can you learn from poker?
Poker and trading do have certain things in common and thus each of them can be studied or practiced in order to be better in the other one. You might not agree with it yet, but keep reading.DiversifiactionIn poker, your your capital you're using to play is called bankroll. Successful players never bring to the table more than 10th of their bankroll, sometimes even less than 1/100th. During one session, when you can play on more than one table at the time, you should still not risk more than 1... Continue reading Comments (0) / Link to this topic - http://www.learning-to-invest.com/ What-can-you-learn-from-poker--61.html How to find and confirm a trend?
In my past posts I have talked a lot about trends and that you should always buy or sell short in the direction of trend. What I have not talked about is how to actually identify an existing trend. In this post I will try to give you some idea how a trend existance can be confirmed. Firstly, what is a trend? A trend simply indicates that there’s more willing buyers than sellers or vice versa. There’s three main trends – upwards, downwards and sideways movement. Upwards and downward trends can ... Continue reading Comments (0) / Link to this topic - http://www.learning-to-invest.com/ How-to-find-and-confirm-a-trend--56.html Introduction to Swing Trading
Swing trading is a style of trading that tries to capture gains within 2 day to few weeks. So this is a short-term trading style where traders must act rather quickly in order to find potentialy big moves in stocks. This style is mainly used by individuals as large institutions can often not act that fast. Swing trading is trading in the direction of a trend – before entering a trade you wait for a pullback and you enter the trade only if you see signs that the price will continue in the direc... Continue reading Comments (0) / Link to this topic - http://www.learning-to-invest.com/ Introduction-to-Swing-Trading--54.html More trading rules
Remember that keeping the big picture in mind is important. Big picture shows you that that there are times when you make small profit, times when you take small losses and also times when you take big profits. Keeping the big picture in mind helps you to remember that one losing trade is just one losing trade and with a good system in place you will still be winning on the big picture over time. One trade is one of many trades you make and while you should make every trade like it was your mo... Continue reading Comments (0) / Link to this topic - http://www.learning-to-invest.com/ More-trading-rules--52.html Technical indicators: Williams %R indicator
Previously I talked about Parabolic SAR indicator and that it can be used with Williams %R indicator. It is similar to Stochastic Oscillator with the difference that Williams %R has upside down scale while Stochastic Oscillator has internal smoothing.What is Williams %R indicator? Williams %R indicator was developed by Larry Williams and it is a momentum indicator. It is usually used to find overbought and oversold levels in non-trending markets. The value of William %R is static 0 to -100. Re... Continue reading Comments (0) / Link to this topic - http://www.learning-to-invest.com/ Technical-indicators-Williams-R-indicator--36.html Common sense trading rules (Michael Jenkins)
In my previous post about Michael Jenkins and his theories I talked about his general theories (as much as I understood them). Here I would like to bring in some of his thoughts on common sense trading. While I do not neccessarily agree with all his weird theories, he does tell about different nuances of trading that actually are rather useful. Two of his main trading rulesDivision of capital. This is is one of the most crucial ones. Like couple of days ago I was touring around investing forum... Continue reading Comments (3) / Link to this topic - http://www.learning-to-invest.com/ Common-sense-trading-rules-Michael-Jenkins--34.html Emotional vs rational trading
First off, when making your trading decisions, stay away from your emotions. Decisions based on your emotions are hardly every right. If you have a strong gut feeling that a certain stock will go up or down then, unless it’s based on your analysis, forget about it. And even if you have made your decision based on what you saw on the chart or based on what the fundamental analysis told you, at all times it’s your responsibility to keep yourself emotion-free. Why? I guess it’s the most simp... Continue reading Comments (0) / Link to this topic - http://www.learning-to-invest.com/ Emotional-vs-rational-trading--32.html Competition: First Day’s thoughts
Even though the competition started yesterday, I didn’t do any trades. Today I thought I’d try it out a bit. Firstly, I have another site where I have generated some industry stock lists and such...and while, let me be honest, the lists don’t really give too accurate information (in addition to the 15 minute delay there are often also update problems) I found the sector/industry Metal Fabrication/Industrial Goods was up 4.2% today and from there I found the stock MINI. Now I checked the stock ... Continue reading Comments (0) / Link to this topic - http://www.learning-to-invest.com/ Competition-First-Days-thoughts--31.html Trading competition, 4 weeks
Even though I'm not really trading yet, there's a local trading competition I have registered to take part from. It lasts 4 weeks, the start-up capital is EUR 10 000 and every trading day (20 days) EUR 1000 is added. The entrance to the competition costs around EUR 6 and there are prizes for the best ones. It's not available in English, thus there's no point in giving you the url. However, in this channel of the site I will be talking about my trades that I do there, why I do them and when I d... Continue reading Comments (0) / Link to this topic - http://www.learning-to-invest.com/ Trading-competition-4-weeks--30.html Relative strengh indicator - RSI
What is RSI? RSI is a momentum oscillator that compares stock’s or currencies magnitude of recent gains with magnitude of recent losses. It ranges between fixed values – 0 to 100 (where values usually move between 30 and 70). RSI is based on ratio of the average upward movements and average downward movements in a given period of time. Higher than 70 means usually overbought environment and below 30 oversold environment. How is RSI calculated exactly? We take some sort of period ( one of the m... Continue reading Comments (1) / Link to this topic - http://www.learning-to-invest.com/ Relative-strengh-indicator---RSI--28.html Introduction to technical indicators II
In Introduction to technical indicators I we talked about moving averages, now lets go on with Oscillators. OscillatorsOscillator is an indicator that is generally said to swing forward and backward within a certain area (minimum and maximum). Often the minimum value is 0 and maximum value 100. What is Oscillator meant for? It measures market momentum or the rate of price change. It helps us search for strongest trends in their strongest momentum. Momentum oscillatorsMomentum oscillator calcul... Continue reading Comments (0) / Link to this topic - http://www.learning-to-invest.com/ Introduction-to-technical-indicators-II--23.html What is Pattern Day Trading
Before you start trading you should get familiar with different aspects and types of trading. And before setting your financial goals , there’s one important term you should know about - Pattern Day Trading. This term sets some limits to your day trading activities if you are starting with just a small capital, lets say $5k or less. If you think you make 10 trades per day without any problems with your $5k starting capital, then think again. Doing 10 trades per day would make me a Patter... Continue reading Comments (0) / Link to this topic - http://www.learning-to-invest.com/ What-is-Pattern-Day-Trading--7.html Which online trading platform to choose?
I apologise to those are now more interested in long-term investements and starting with sums $10k+ as when writing this I mainly consider my own possible portfolio size which will be anywhere between $1000 - $5000. But many things I mentioned here can be applied to bigger accounts as well. There are couple of things you need to consider when choosing your trading platform, whether we’re talking about forex or stocks:- How reliable a company is. The easiest way to go here would just... Continue reading Comments (2) / Link to this topic - http://www.learning-to-invest.com/ Which-online-trading-platform-to-choose--4.html |
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