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The Big Stock Myth That’s Costing You Money

So, you think you should only invest in the biggest stocks on the market? You’ve bought into the myth that size equals safety, and that only the ASX200 or ASX300 deserve your attention. Wrong. That’s the exact mindset that keeps individual investors from crushing it in the markets. Meanwhile, the real money is being made…

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The Power of Simplicity

In trading, complexity is seductive. A special indicator here, a different entry method there, and before long, your chart looks like a NASA control panel. Many traders believe that more systems mean more opportunities, but in reality, the opposite is often true. Simplicity has an unmatched advantage: it focuses your energy. A robust idea—trend following,…

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Ten Minutes With Tate Desperately Seeking Alpha

Most traders believe wealth comes from being right more often. That belief quietly destroys traders. In this episode of Ten Minutes with Tate, I explain why the real risk of ruin isn’t a sudden crash — but a slow psychological and financial erosion caused by overtrading, small repeated losses, and cutting winners short. You’ll learn…

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Kubrick On Chess And Strangely Trading

The quote below is from an interview Stanley Kubrick gave to Playboy Magazine in 1968; as with all things involving decision-making, it is directly applicable to trading. “Among a great many other things that chess teaches you is to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good. It trains you…

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Hard or Easy – Your Choice

Trading is unique among professions in that you get to build your job description. You can trade any market over any time frame using any system. You can decide whether you want to make trading hard or whether you want to make it easy. Unfortunately, most people opt to complicate it. They do this through…

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Trading Burnout and the Success Tax

Are you paying the success tax without even realising it? If you’re a trader glued to multiple screens, working in an “always-on” world, you may already be paying the hidden cost of digital burnout. Neuro-performance scientist Dr Kristy Goodwin joins Louise Bedford to explain how constant connectivity drains your focus, erodes decision-making, and quietly sabotages your trading results.  

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Hot Momentum In The Small End of Town

Louise Bedford from Trading Game pinpoints strong opportunities in the market, identifying the smaller end of the ASX as the standout performer. Bedford describes volatility in the All Ordinaries (ASX:XAO) as low, which currently benefits traders seeking smoother exits. While the broader indices such as the ASX20, ASX100, and ASX300 are regarded as ‘cold’, Bedford…

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The One Non Negotiable In Trading

There comes a moment in every trader’s journey when the market nudges your exit, and the mind begins its quiet rebellion. Your internal voice begins to negotiate, “Wait… maybe this isn’t real. Maybe it’s just a sentiment wobble, not a true break.” This negotiation is not unique to trading. It is the same inner dialogue…

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Is the Market Rigged Against You?

Have you ever wondered why the media always seems to headline a “market crash” just when you’re ready to make your next move? Or why financial news outlets make it feel like you’re perpetually one step behind, scrambling to catch up to what the big players already know? The truth is, you’re not imagining it…the…

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Ambition vs Entitlement

My social media feed occasionally throws up clips from a podcast called Diary of a CEO by Stephen Bartlett, who, from what I have seen, seems to spend most of his time staring wide-eyed at people making the most outrageous, nonsensical statements about health and science. And to bastardise the quote attributed to H.L.Mencken, nobody…

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More or Less – The Winners Curse

In the latter part of the 20th century, a pioneering group of economists started shaking up their academic field. These “behavioural economists” used findings from experimental psychology and everyday activities to challenge the prevailing view that human beings were rational decision-makers – acting in predictable ways to maximise their wealth. One of those pioneers was…

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The Most Dangerous Pattern In Trading

Below is a chart I consider the most dangerous in trading. I consider it to be the most dangerous because the price is doing precisely nothing other than ambling along between two lines. Having had an excellent year, gold is now stagnant and simply churning within a consolidation pattern. When prices start to do this,…

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Trading Myths: Why Smart People Believe Stupid Things

Within the world of trading, you’d think rationality would be the minimum entry fee. After all, markets are built on numbers, probabilities, risk, and logic. And yet, time after time, traders cling to ideas that are not just wrong—but spectacularly wrong. On a quiet weekend not long ago, I found myself doom-scrolling through a financial…

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