I’ve been studying and trading options for the past several months. It’s not a style drift, but adding an uncorrelated income stream to the current systematic portfolio of stocks and futures. I have already read several blogs and papers about options, listened to over a hundred podcast episodes, backtested my own ideas and I’m currently […]
Author: Markus
Happy New Year! The stock market is not a friendly place, where everyone is guaranteed to make money by having exposure in securities. It’s a highly competitive field, where the strongest survive. It’s a place, where dreams are crushed and hope can be lost. That’s why it takes mental fortitude and rigid risk management to […]
Thank you Äripäev for sending me the Estonian version of this book. Even though I’m not a fan of buy-and-hold investing, it was an interesting read about the 100 tips from one the greatest investors of all time, billionaire Warren Buffett. I’m obviously not going to list all the tips as this is what readers […]
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Placing trades should be boring
I remember listening to traders speak on podcasts about trading having finally clicked to them, and being in a starting phase during my first six months, I was wondering what they meant. It was roughly a year later when I started to feel that my mindset had made a shift to think in probabilities and […]
I read Mark Douglas’s book “Trading in the Zone” several years ago and it helped a lot with trading psychology. I’ve later seen many traders refer to this other book by the author, so I started to feel that I should skim through this one as well. It’s also about trading psychology. According to the […]