Quitting your full-time job to trade for a living is a fantastic goal to strive for but there’s a couple of things you need to have in place before you should consider chasing after the dream to trade for a living. It’s not just about having the system and...
I routinely use ALL of these types of orders in stock market trading systems. Each has different advantages and disadvantages and the best stock order types for you will depend on a variety of factors such as: The liquidity of the stock you are trading How urgently...
What to do when your trading system hits your maximum historical drawdown? One of my students recently asked me “What happens/what do you do, when you hit your max draw-down? Do you stop trading and take a break? Keep going?” There is a common piece of conventional...
We’re trading for one specific purpose, mostly to make money. But the flip side of that, if we get it wrong is that we lose money. And when we’re placing a trade, the fear comes up in three places. The first time that fear comes up is when you’re...
The first thing is being consistently profitable, and the second thing is having the discipline to stick to your system. I want to be clear that trading is not like a day job, compared to going to work, getting paid, there is very little consistency in your returns...
