Fear And Stress Are Not Your Trading Friends
Just as markets often teach us to trade badly they also drags us towards the most emotionally taxing of all time frames.
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Market Wrap QAN Trade Idea
QAN currently sits at a very interesting juncture. The mechanism you use to trade this next phase can be applied to any instrument.
Name Your Greatest Trading Issue
Traders often cite external issues as their greatest impediments. Unfortunately they are looking in the wrong direction.
Leveraged or Unleveraged?
Two questions to think about – Are you buying leveraged or unleveraged index ETFs? What are the reasons for your choice?
6 Steps to Stay Sane in an Insane World
The world is crazy, but then again, it always has been. Perhaps we feel it more acutely in our current era because we are so connected to everyone and everything, and because so many of the “digital town squares” that promised to bring us together and uplift us have sunken to the lowest common denominator…
Do Groups Make Good Decisions?
I recently came across a statement made by Warren Buffett in a 1965 letter to his Partnership where he mentioned group decision making: “My perhaps jaundiced view is that it is close to impossible for outstanding management to come from a group of any size with all parties really participating in decisions.” This made me…
Finding Resilience in the Thick of Disorder
Over the last few weeks, the situation in my hometown of Asheville, North Carolina, and the Western part of the state more broadly, has been hard to describe. On Friday, September 27, Hurricane Helene made landfall and wreaked havoc across the Blue Ridge Mountains. Nearly three weeks later, and justtoday my family got running water…
Nothing To Boast About
Something that has always intrigued me is the capacity of the superannuation industry to boast about being below average. The following is a snippet from the AFR. The larger-than-expected reduction in US interest-rates stoked global markets and helped push average returns for equity-heavy superannuation funds to 8.6 per cent in the calendar year to date.…
Why We Wait
One of the issues with trading is that the market seems to be on a quest to teach you to trade badly. It amplifies every bit of insecurity and paranoia you may have and in doing so it ramps up your FOMO. The charts below are of London Cocoa taken at different intervals and they…
Empire of Numbers – Fibonacci
Traders for decades have tried to use Fibonacci numbers to predict where markets will go. Sadly like most things to do with trading, they are completely unaware of their history.
A Beginners Look At Survival
Let me state at the outset of this article that given the number of rules involved in its successful execution trading is the simplest profession on earth. There are two basic rules in trading. They are if the share is trending up over the time frame you are interested in then you go long whatever…
Traders Are Just Passengers
A key to survival in markets is to surrender any notion of control that you might have. All too often traders think that they are by dent of their participation in a trade somehow in control of the trade. They also sadly think that the more indicators they put onto a chart the more control…
Black Swan Author Taleb on Fragility of Markets, Political Risk, AI
Nassim Taleb, Black Swan author and Universa Investments distinguished scientific advisor, talks about the fragility of markets, how to hedge against geopolitical risks and artificial intelligence. He’s on “Bloomberg Markets.”
Traders Biggest Issue
Tired of letting your emotions sabotage your trades? At Mind Over Markets, we delve deep into the psychology of trading with leading expert Louise Bedford, a 5x best-selling author. In this episode, we’ll explore the pitfalls of a fixed mindset, marked by avoidance of challenges, quick surrender to obstacles, and a tendency to make tasks…
