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Once you learn the skill, noone can take it from you

Trading is hard. But it’s not something we think about much at first, because many books and videos leave the impression that it can be quite easy. Like how hard can it be to buy MACD crossing or RSI below 30?! After trading for a while, hurdles start to appear. Not many have analyzed that […]

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Life is poker, not chess

Wise words by Annie Duke, whose book “Thinking in Bets” I read and reviewed in the blog several years ago. What she means with this quote is that in poker we need to deal with lots of unknowns like cards we can’t see and players bluffing, but in chess all the information is available on […]

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Tom Basso – Successful Traders Size Their Positions – Review

Beginning traders often underestimate the importance of position sizing. However, besides stop placement it makes a huge difference for risk management. Tom Basso was featured in Jack Schwager’s New Market Wizards book that I have also reviewed here in my blog. This short ebook on why and how to size positions was published by Tom […]

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All stocks are bad unless they go up in price

This is a quote from William O’Neil, a market veteran whose bestselling book I recently read. I’m going to publish a review of the book soon. But the title says it all about my approach to trading. If a stock has momentum and is going up, I want to be onboard until it lasts. I […]

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Van K. Tharp – Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom – Review

First edition of the book was published in 1999, this one is the second edition and was published in 2007. In a quite long foreword already there are several good points about trading. Van Tharp tells how everyone trades his or her beliefs about the market and how his beliefs have changed over the course […]

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