Tag Archives: Trading System

Looking at the Markets Through a “Big Picture” Lens The first step to good market analysis is the easiest of the steps to do, yet it is surprising how few traders actually do it. The first step to analyzing a… + More

One of the toughest challenges in trading is “listening” to or identifying market direction. Regularly we are almost convinced to recklessly predict instead of identifying market direction. Or, we suspect we already know what’s going to occur, so we simply… + More

“The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge It.” –  © 1962 Ludwig Von Mises (1881 – 1973) What makes day traders different is that they are able to participate without bias, without question, and… + More

5 Reasons you Can Take a Break from Trading A day trading holiday like Thanksgiving, Christmas, Memorial Day, Labor Day, and the 4th of July can make day trading the markets even more challenging than usual.  For whatever reason, the… + More

Are You and Your Trading Systems Ready for Success? If you plan on working with a day trading system, determining whether or not you’re ready to make the leap involves some serious introspection. When you learn day trading, it’s easy to… + More

High Frequency Trading in a Coffee Shop Lately, my wife and I have been taking a date night to the coffee shop – with our laptops.  We both share over achiever geeky work ethics.  But, after twenty years of marriage,… + More

How many times have you been told trading is easy?  But when you buy that shiny new day trading system you soon find out that there are so many conditions required to make a trading decision that by the time… + More

Trend Trading and the Pareto Principle The Pareto Principle, commonly known as the 80/20 Rule, is often used in economics, statistics and by humorists to describe real life events and observations. Basically, the principle says that 80% of an outcome can… + More

Day Trading Futures: Manage Your Trading Risk! It is important to develop unique skills to manage trading risk when day trading futures. This situation often requires effective techniques that many traders typically do not have. Most traditional investors tend to buy… + More

Should you have a Dedicated Office for your Day Trading Business? One of the most attractive parts of running your own day trading business is avoiding all the expenses that go with needing to rent office space. Many of the… + More