16th October 2005
You can draw some useful parallels between running a business and Forex trading. For instance, most successful businesses keep statistics on everything from their conversion rate, to their average dollar sale, to the number of people that come in the doo...
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01st October 2005
Studies have shown that you should never risk more than 2% of your float on any trade. Why 2%? Well, in fact, many day trading professionals will tell you that 2% is too much. They`ll risk 1% or even as little as a quarter of a percent on any trade. What...
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01st October 2005
When trading in the stock market, position sizing is where all the tools of money management come together. It`s perhaps the most important part of your stock market money management rules. Position sizing is simply deciding how much you are going to put ...
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01st October 2005
One of the cardinal rules of Forex trading is to keep your losses small. With small Forex trading losses, you can outlast those times the market moves against you, and be well positioned for when the trend turns around. The proven method to keeping your l...
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01st October 2005
The 2% rule is a powerful tool in Forex trading. By adopting this rule you`re using a strategy that decreases the size of your losses during losing streaks, an important consideration. There is, however one small caveat that you need to be aware of when u...
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22nd September 2005
Once you have decided to begin trading in the New York Stock Exchange, there is a bewildering variety of information and advice out there that will guarantee to put you on the way to success. A lot of the New York Stock Exchange advice is good, and some ...
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22nd September 2005
In this three article series, I`m going to guide you through the process I use to design a trading system using MetaStock. I'll cover the four major components that every successful trading system has in common, and then I'll show you how to code these co...
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12th September 2005
If you are like many other traders, you have been eagerly waiting for the release of Metastock 8.0 for one reason, and one reason only, the reportedly redeveloped system tester. Metastock`s one major flaw has always been its lack of back testing capabilit...
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09th September 2005
Anytime that you are investing in the Forex market, you are going into the Market blind. You don't know what point of the investing trend you are entering in at. You might be investing in a Forex stock just before the trend changes. Smart investing means ...
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09th September 2005
When traders first begin considering their stop losses, keep in mind this comment from Tom Baldwin, a leading day-trader. He said, "The best traders have no ego."
Successful traders are faced with losses constantly, and they swallow their pride and ge...
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26th August 2005
The first point to mastering money management is that you have to understand when you're trading on the stock market is that you are playing the odds – but unlike many forms of gambling, you can make money. The key to making this money is to respect the r...
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15th August 2005
You know the old joke:
"How do you make a million in the stock market? Start with two million?"
There is no way around it, risk and stock market fees are a part of trading that you can`t avoid. But, you can manage your risk. You can also manage the ...
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