Fundamental Investing Explained
Yep – its all just a word salad……
China Is Run By Engineers – America Is Run By Clowns
Tom Bilyeu sits down with heterodox economist Steve Keen to diagnose the widening economic gap between the West and China. Famous for mathematically modelling and predicting the 2008 global financial crisis, Keen argues that the West is structurally falling behind because it traded its physical manufacturing core for a highly financialised service economy. Rather than…
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The Trader’s Hidden Wish
Most traders believe their biggest problem is technical. They think they need a better indicator, a sharper entry, a different timeframe, or a more sophisticated model, and so they spend years tweaking moving averages, optimising parameters, and searching for the system that will finally remove uncertainty from the game. Underneath all the technical mumbo jumbo…
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What Actually Makes a Setup “A+”
Ask ten traders what an A+ setup looks like, and most will point to a chart. A clean breakout, a price breaking to a new high, a gap on heavy volume. The observations are not wrong, but they are incomplete. Pattern recognition is only one input among several, and treating it as the whole picture…
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Practice Makes Perfect….Sort Of
The instinct in new traders to “get trades under your belt” is understandable because experience is undoubtedly one of the great teachers in trading. There is truth in the idea that no amount of reading, back-testing or discussion can fully substitute for the experience of managing real positions and living through uncertainty. However, there is…
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Why Your Investment Strategy Is Probably a Fairy Tale
1. The Passenger’s Dilemma Your ego is your portfolio’s greatest enemy. Most investors operate under the delusion that they are the drivers of their financial destiny, possessing some “variant perception” that allows them to outsmart the market’s collective intelligence. We are never drivers; we are only ever passengers – no decision we make has any…
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Why Your Strategy Isn’t the Reason You’re Losing Money
The Hook: The Trader’s Paradox The amateur’s fatal error is the belief that a better indicator, a faster data feed, or a more complex algorithm will finally bridge the gap to profitability. But for most, the problem isn’t the strategy; it’s the execution. The driver is always the problem. Takeaway 1: Your Subconscious is an…
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5 Counter-Intuitive Truths About Why Traders Succeed (and Why Most Should Quit)
1. Introduction: The “Never Give Up” Trap In the echo chambers of trading forums, the “never give up” mantra is treated as gospel. I can tell you that in the cold reality of the markets, this advice is often a path to ruin. After years of analysing human blowups, it is clear that not everyone…
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Trading Psychology: Rewiring Your Money Personality for Market Success
Your trading results aren’t just about charts and systems – they’re about you. Your wiring. Your personality. In this second part of her 2-part Trading Personality series, Louise Bedford explores the Thinker and Relater trader types, and how your money personality shapes every trading decision you make. Click here for part 1 You’ll discover: A…
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