4/9/2025 – So much of trading success is knowing when to switch off and when it’s time for all hands on deck. I encourage those interested in studying markets (and learning from today’s market) to track the short-term action in the NYSE TICK alongside price action in SPX. There are several great tells for the … Read more
Well, we’ll be bringing a new friend into the home, beautiful Siamese girl, who is currently with her Mom (see below). As we learned from Molly Ruththere’s much to be said for stepping back, rejuvenating, and stepping forward in a fresh mode. During the break, I’ll be finishing an added chapter to the Positive Trading … Read more
6/12/2025 – In the research I’ve conducted re: the personality and life history predictors of trading success, several factors consistently stand out. One of those is the capacity for pattern recognition. Successful traders are more curious than others and look at more things in a greater variety of ways. This enables them to see patterns … Read more
A great deal of the success of a trade comes from what happens after the position is put on. The best traders I’ve worked with have rules for managing positions, not just putting them on. They have rules for stopping out of positions; rules for holding positions; and rules for adding to positions. Their rules … Read more
7/3/2025 – Idea generation–finding the opportunities worth trading and the spots when you can trade them with excellent risk/reward–is a function of analysis and synthesis. In the analysis phase, we can screen for symbols meeting various criteria; we can review charts on different time frames; we can engage in our own research studies; we can … Read more
