The stock market has upside bias in long-term, but shorting can actually offset downside risk due to having negative correlation to long exposure. When one side is losing money, the other side often tends to make money at the same time. It doesn’t mean they only balance each other out and give a breakeven result […]
Tag: risk management
Tune out the noise
I went through a meditation course and took notes of my progress for several weeks in 2019, which taught me to look at myself, my actions and feelings from aside as a separate person. It made me aware of so many emotional states I was experiencing while making trading decisions or placing orders. When I […]
Volatility is good because it puts money to my bank account. Every timeframe has its own path of volatility, but without it stocks wouldn’t move. So volatility needs to be embraced and managed, not avoided. Once a trade is on, risk has been calculated, the stop loss and profit target are in place, then there’s […]
Price makes news, not the other way around
The US stock market has been in a drawdown for almost 2 years since the start of 2022, when it made the last all-time high. There’s still a lot of interest in the markets among the general public, which shows people still have a lot of savings from the money supply bubble created by central […]
When it’s time to buy, you don’t want to
The title originates from Walter Deemer who had a 52-year career as a market analyst in Wall Street. I haven’t read his books, but the quote gave me a few ideas to think about. The main point is probably tied to the fact that people don’t want to buy stocks when prices are falling and […]