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Good performance comes from not knowing

I’ve put some thought into this lately. Let’s be honest, nobody knows what the stock market will do next. If you’re still thinking otherwise and trying to predict the future, then I can just say that it’ll take some more time for you to understand. Everybody is guessing something and someone has to be right […]

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I’m back to the highs again

Happy New Year! I have 7 trading accounts in my portfolio. One of the accounts returned +52% in 2023. See you next year! Lol. That seems to be the industry’s standard to talk about annual performance, right. Let’s look further what all of my assets combined did in 2023. 90% of trading is about sitting […]

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Q2 summary in the weak bear market environment

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 […]

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Comparison makes market participants unhappy

Happy New Year! Absolute performance measures the annual returns of a portfolio, while relative performance compares it to a benchmark or some index. Part of our human nature is to compare what we have or achieve to someone else be it a friend, neighbor, co-worker etc. We may be satisfied with our new car until […]

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Compounding is the eighth wonder of the world

Simply put, compounding means money makes money that makes money that makes money. So, instead of thinking about returns in a linear fashion, compounding actually illustrates the exponential growth of assets over time, which is as important for a trader as it is for an investor. Let go of the short-term mindset Beginning traders and […]

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