Disciplined Trading Strategies

• This is important enough for its own podcast. • Formal definition – from two different sources.  • Simple definition. • What is NOT a technical Indicator. • Cool kids. • What you can use them for. • What you cannot use them for • The dangers are huge. They END careers.  Here are the charts to follow along: Chart 1: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1t9bvK0UtBc3oQFklHiA32o66jlCBs5xv/view?...

This podcast is short and sweet and to the point. The more complete title should be, “the absolute way you must view the market to make money, which would shock the average person, even the average person in the market”. It will in a sense, summarize some thoughts of prior podcasts, and lead to a conclusion that you must hear, if you really want to understand how to trade/invest properly.  Se...

I don’t want to give anything away but some of you who have been listening for a while may be thinking that there is a little sarcasm in the title of this podcast. This is going to cover several important topics including a couple of favorite lessons from a book, those cookie-cutter patterns, the language of charts, and pictures of learning. A good rule to follow is that nothing is as it seems whe...

In almost anything you read or listen to about trading, you will likely read or hear that trade management is important. This is not accurate. Trade management is more than important. It is critical and will eventually determine your fate as a trader/investor. Traders that can read charts but cannot put the money in the bank are a dime a dozen. It takes some skill to read a chart, but many traders...

There is a section called “Look for the Pitfalls That Stop Most” that is toward the end of the free course that I do for everybody called, Introduction to Mastering Technical Analysis. It’s a half-day course that is packed with some great information. I mention that because, as a trader/investor, today’s topic is one of the key pitfalls that often make it difficult for anyone new. Or in many cases...

I think this has become one of my favorite small topics to pick on, as I probably mention one or two of these when talking about other topics. I also did an event with a similar title. It’s an important topic because so many people go off looking for some training and there are an awful lot of things you read and see that vary from being at the least, not useful, and at the most, being downright w...

Is the market a random walk? Well, you have to listen to the podcast to get that answer. The answer may surprise you a little bit, but the answer also has what I consider to be one of the greatest concepts you need to understand to be a successful trader or investor. I’m going to talk about my 97% rule and how I stumbled across it many years ago. We will also discuss the market being a zero-sum ga...

When a trader says that a trade was “risky”, what exactly does that mean? I hate to say it but in the absence of any other information it means that the trader is very novice. Risk can have a lot of meanings, and I want to review each of those as they are critically important to your trading. Maybe it’s just semantics, but saying any trade is risky is very difficult to define. The true definition...

This particular podcast is actually based on an article that I wrote, well, quite a long time ago. But it was one of those that received many comments for a long time, and I felt it helped a lot of people. It discusses stages most traders go through, and where they often get stuck. Obviously, many of the comments in this podcast are concepts that I say frequently, but a lot comes together in this...

This is a big one to me because it gets at the very heart of what we do as traders/investors and also addresses what is perhaps one of the biggest mistakes made by traders across the board. This has to do with selecting trades on simple ordinary stocks to make money from moves that occur virtually every day.  Unfortunately, new traders are drawn into trying to find stocks that make the top ga...

FOMO, in case you have been in an underground shelter for the last 20 years, stands for “Fear of Missing Out” and it is a saying that certainly started somewhere else besides the trading world. But it probably applies to the trading world more than anywhere else. There are several very key topics in trading that are all very related. FOMO, patience, discipline. They are the top demons, not only fo...

The full title is simply too long to be an actual title, but it should be “ should you spend more time on self-analysis and less on technical analysis”. In trading there are SO many things that you hear as advice that seem to be the professional’s answer, but they are not. It is kind of like the doctor saying “go home and rest”, no matter what your ailment is. The advice is safe, it is not bad, an...

This is a great topic to me. Of course, what I think is a great topic does not necessarily line up with what new or struggling traders think is a great topic. The way odds work in trading is generally not even close to how most people picture the concept. And it is very important to understand this topic or you will struggle to make money even with good chart knowledge. Many traders learn to read...

When I say “My Story”, I am referring to how I got involved in trading/investing. I feel that my story may help the average person because it brings out a lot of issues that I discuss frequently. I was never on Wall Street or involved with any financial institution. I started off learning on my own. And it leads to several discussions that involve questions I frequently hear from many new and expe...

Warning! Part of this may be kind of boring to some of you. However, I will get into some discussions that will enlighten even the most sophisticated trader. I’m going to start off with a basic discussion about the popular time frames that traders can trade. Anything from a monthly chart to a “tick” chart. I will discuss the appropriate charts that go with each of these time frames, but I also wan...

Proper mindset may seem like a fuzzy topic, but it will get clear once I get into the topic. It encompasses a lot of issues that I truly believe become the most important part of trading. The truth of it is that learning technical analysis is not a terribly complex procedure. As a matter of fact, I certainly don’t mean to offend anyone who is struggling, but the intelligence required to trade prop...

One of the bigger issues I always face in training somebody new to the market (or someone struggling) is getting them to understand that trading involves structure. It’s fairly easy for me to spot this issue in a trader (very easy), all I need to do is see three or four of their trades. It doesn’t even matter if they are winning or losing trades. Good traders may have several strategies they know,...

If you are very new, you may not even understand what the question is regarding “what to trade”. And if you have some experience, you may think this is a boring topic. I’m going to discuss the pros and cons of trading stocks, futures, Forex, Options, Crypto, or commodities. They all in the trade long-term, and they all can be good for daytrading. If you’ve been around a while this may sound boring...

I know the “Three-Legged Stool'' concept has a lot of uses as a metaphor. For a long time however, I’ve used it to describe what people need in order to be successful in trading/investing. I have spent some of my prior podcasts discussing what you do not need, what you should never be looking at. I always make that a focus because so many people fail by looking at all the wrong things. You can gla...

Without a question, the biggest disadvantage we have as traders is being human. Along with all the good things come some really bad things for traders. We come with emotions that do nothing but confuse us. We have hidden demons that we do not even know are operating. In addition, whether you realize it or not, as you develop as a human, you develop ‘biases’. A predetermined view of how something w...

Trading or investing in the market is a unique profession. The ability to make a former week’s salary in minutes can have even very educated and disciplined people doing crazy things. Just like a construction site often attracts kids, the market attracts successful people. However, the success these people have had does not translate to the market directly, sometimes not at all. Unfortunately, the...

This may sound like a simple question but it is actually quite a complex question and it is also a very important one. Is trading subjective or objective, should a good trader be more subjective or objective? What does it mean to be subjective or objective when it comes to trading? When traders first come to the market, they are inherently very subjective. They don’t know what else to be, although...

I will make this clear again when you begin listening to this podcast but in case you’re wondering what direction this is going to take or what exactly cookie-cutter patterns are (if you been trading a while you probably know, if not you may not) this podcast will be a scathing ridicule of anyone who thinks are going to make money from cookie-cutter patterns. The term cookie-cutter patterns is one...

I am going to bet that this podcast gets fewer downloads than the others. Discipline? Really? What a boring topic. Discipline. It is an important word in most everything we do in life. But in trading it has a very special place. When a new trader discovers that you can make a former week’s salary in a couple of hours it brings about emotions of greed and fear that have intelligent people often doi...

I am going to bet that this podcast gets fewer downloads than the others. Discipline? Really? What a boring topic. Discipline. It is an important word in most everything we do in life. But in trading it has a very special place. When a new trader discovers that you can make a former week’s salary in a couple of hours it brings about emotions of greed and fear that have intelligent people often doi...