Trading is not about charts, systems, or market secrets. It’s about cultivating the quiet courage to act, to endure, and to live a life others only dream of but never dare to attempt. Being a successful trader requires courage, a truth that is almost always overlooked. In the public imagination, trading is often portrayed as…
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Most investors believe currency hedging reduces risk.It sounds intelligent. It sounds prudent. It sounds like control. But in reality? Currency hedging often does the exact opposite. In this video, I break down why hedged ETFs—like the difference between IVV and IHVV— don’t reduce risk, don’t improve returns, and may actually damage long-term performance. Because what…
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I came across the title of this article as a quote I heard in passing the other day. I can’t remember the exact source, so I can’t attribute it correctly, but it seemed particularly relevant to trading, so it stuck with me. There’s a common assumption in financial markets that more complexity equals more sophistication.…
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Betting on binary outcomes—such as the outcome of a drug trial—introduces a fundamentally different risk profile to most forms of trading. In conventional market environments, trades tend to fail gradually. Prices move against the position in increments, allowing the trader to respond: stops can be adjusted, positions reduced, or risk reassessed. Losses unfold over time,…
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The chart below is a year to date comparison of crude oil and natural gas. What is immediately apparent is the performance differential between the two since the start of the latest conflict in the Middle East. This is interesting because superficially, when we view commodities within a given sector, we tend to think of…
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Financial markets contain certain relationships that appear sacrosanct. Traders are comforted by rules that never seem to alter, and by which they believe they could literally set their watches. One of the most persistent links is betweenmadness in the Middle East, rising oil prices, and gold prices. Historically, the pattern has been straightforward. When geopolitical…
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Fear. It can freeze you… Or it can forge you. In this deeply personal episode, Louise Bedford sits down with Anne Wicking and Jo Wiese from What’s Fear Got to Do With It? to explore how fear shapes who we become – in life, and in trading. From a childhood marked by poverty and addiction, to health crises that stole her voice and…
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A recent video on our YouTube channel – it is an interesting question that deserves a more complete answer than you can generate in the comments section under a video. The question was as follows – Could the main source of psychological problems be a lack of technical knowledge and skills? One of the most…
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The break is over – and this episode is about getting back into a trading rhythm that actually works. In this Talking Trading conversation, Louise Bedford unpacks a problem that sits behind so many stalled trading journeys: Hesitation. Waiting for certainty. Delaying decisions. Watching setups form and then letting them go. A loss can teach…
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