Are you dreaming of becoming a successful, consistent, and profitable global stock trader? Well, you're in luck! In this blog post, I will reveal the nine secrets that will take your trading to the next level. My name is Adrian Reid, the founder of Enlightened Stock Trading, and I'm excited to share these secrets with you. So let's dive right in!Protect Your Capital: The Foundation of Successful...
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STOCK MARKET UPDATE |Something Really $%&!ed Me Off This Week…One Super Strong Market and an Infestation of Little Green Monsters
Global Stock Market Update - 19 February 2024Welcome to this week's market update! Not all that much happening, and as I sat down to write this update this email caught my eye that really annoyed me... so I thought I would create a special video for you to tell you all about it. Some good trading lessons in this one - Click here to watch it nowThere has been a whole sea of green in the global...
STOCK MARKET UPDATE |A free Trading Conference… When to sit on your hands… a Monster Gap, HK’s bear rally, and a Monster Truck
Global Stock Market Update - 12 February 2024Welcome to this week's market update! I am in a writing mood so thought I would share my thoughts with you.🛑Before you do anything else:I am speaking at the Trading Mastery 2024 online conference this coming weekend. Register here for free to get access and the recordings! Have you registered? Good! Let's continue... Everything was much more muted and...
STOCK MARKET UPDATE |All Time Highs and Market Collapse at the same time … Your Diversification Score … and a space marine helmet
Global Stock Market Update - 05 February 2024Welcome to this week's market update! No video this week because I am not in a spot to record one, but I didn't want you to miss out so let's do it the old fashion way. I was fascinated to see how much variation there has been in the global markets this week. As you can see in the table below, there is a mix of both green and red. While the US market...
STOCK MARKET UPDATE |All Time Highs & Awesome Short Side Profits At The Same Time?
Global Stock Market Update - 22 January 2024Here is our weekly market update - click the link below to watch on the EST YouTube Channel I have tweaked the video format a bit this week so please let me know what you think - Helpful or Not... Comment below and let me know what changes you would suggest so I can make it more helpful for you! Watch the full video on YouTube (make sure you give it a...
When You Should And Should NOT Do Trading System Development
First of all, you don't, there's no compulsion. You don't have to keep doing the development. If you can just maintain, do the maintenance, and just, follow the process in place, the trades you're ahead of the game because you've really done some work that allows you will allow your trading to grow your account to grow as you follow the process and the development is like nice icing on the cake,...
Why Good Traders Are Like Detectives
So I think, and I think with trading, we do need to seek out those things. if it doesn't feel right, there's something there. And even if there's not, it doesn't feel right. What does that do to your emotions? What happens to your emotions? They go up or down. If something is niggling at you, your emotions go up. And if your emotions go up, what happens to your ability to make sound decisions?...
What To Do When Learning To Sell Stocks Short
Now short selling is a particular conundrum, right? It's counterintuitive. It feels weird. it's hard to understand, but it's really not much different than the long side once you get to the point where you truly deeply understand it. So my suggestion is for anyone who doesn't have shorting is just keep asking questions until you get it. Until you really intuitively feel comfortable with it, just...
The Key To Successfully Navigating Your Trading Challenges
I've been trying pretty hard to keep learning in the last couple of years. I did go through a long phase where I just knew what I knew and I just did that. And I really think I left a lot of money on the table when I was doing that. And a lot of future wealth because, now I'm learning things that I could have learned years ago because I'm a bit more, engaged in all of that. And I think it's...
Simple Trick to Truly Understanding And Dealing With Drawdown
We look at a back test in a very clinical way. It's Oh, look, there's the equity curve. That's amazing. Over 30 years, look how much money we would have made. And yes, there's drawdown. I'm comfortable with that level of drawdown and, Oh, it's 30 percent winners, 70 percent losers. Yeah, that's okay. I can deal with that. I understand trend following. It's yet another thing to have your account...
How To Review Your Trading Performance
I think it's a really useful point to discuss because the markets get high, like trading gets hard psychologically at times. And the last two years for me have not been my favorite two years out of my trading journey. Let me tell you it's okay because I know it's normal. It comes and goes. And sometimes the money is so easy. It's crazy. And sometimes the money is much, much harder. It has been...
Generating Ideas For Trading System Development
The first step in the process is to imagine conceptualize something that you can form into some rules. Okay. This is the hypothesis generation. From what I heard, I jumped through each of the groups. There were good ideas in all of the groups, whether they're profitable or not, it can make a good system out of them. I don't know yet, but just like in trading, a lot of the systems you try and...











