At the beginning of my trading journey I was fond of trading quotes and I used to write them down in a file together with an explanation of how I understood each one of them. This was part of training the mindset. Through experience and while becoming more mature with my own strategies, I have […]
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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 […]
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 […]
How long do downtrends in S&P 500 last?
Check out my thoughts about the current market. I also share some statistics how long the average and longest downtrends have lasted in S&P 500 based on my trend-following strategy and research since 1980.
Every three months I look back at my trades from the quarter previous to the last one, so that the trades are in the middle of the chart. It’s a good way to study entries and exits. I was summing up my second quarter of 2022 today. I didn’t open up every single chart as […]