Different markets and brokers have different minimums and requirements. For instance, on the Australian market, the smallest trade you can take in stocks is $500 and most brokers would have that minimum. You need that much money to get started but if YOU get started...
Any broker is going to lag your trade long so let's focus on a short side. The real question is, how can I diversify the long side and actually trade short as well? The first thing is you need a broker that will support shorting. That could be if you're in Australia,...
What trade tracking software should you use? I use AmiBroker for all of my backtesting, monitoring, scanning for new trades and monitoring my portfolio and in my actual trades are in Interactive Brokers. For more stock market questions, click here to find all my...
What should you do next if you want to learn more about systematic trading? There are two things that you can do. If you're a new trader and you like the idea of this systematic trading, then what I'm going to encourage you to do is check out my program, which is...
If you are like most traders, you probably look at your account each day and ask one question: "Did I make money today, or did I lose money today?" Unfortunately this (on it's own) is the wrong question to ask. For this to be useful you need to also ask a second...
This article will explain how you can learn stock trading and profit in the stock market with three simple secrets that most traders never understand. With these three secrets, you can become one of the small percentages of traders who win in the markets when you...
Drawdown in trading is a critical risk measure that every trader must understand to develop a profitable and resilient trading system. Whether you’re a beginner learning stock trading or an experienced trader refining your systematic trading strategies, managing...
PROBLEMS MOST STOCKTRADERS FACEAfter coaching and mentoring many traders in different markets, I realized and noticed most problems traders face. They are categorized under the following:Overload of InformationThere is much information in the market nowadays; data...
What is Survivorship Bias and Why is it a Problem for Backtesting?One of my mentoring students sent me a really great question today which I thought was such a useful lesson that I wanted to share it with everyone in my community... This is important because getting...
While thinking about stock trading for dummies, I came up with eight critical things that you absolutely have to do in order to not only make money in the stock market but to improve your quality of life in the process.