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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]