Posts Tagged ‘Trading for Beginners’
Every trader should think in R-Multiples
Do you find yourself buying stocks using arbitrary round share sizes? Do you position size based only on the distance to your stop loss or vary size based on your conviction in the trade? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then today’s article about R-Multiples is going to be an important one…
Read MorePatrick Walker — Live episode sharing market analysis & answering your questions
Smarter Trading Podcast Episode 18 Patrick is the founder of Mission Winners. He has had the privilege of meeting and learning from legendary traders like: Martin Zweig, Bill O’ Neil, and Ed Seykota. He was an IBD Meetup co-leader and most importantly, he is a family man, happily married with 4 kids. In Patrick’s…
Read MoreKunal Desai — Momentum based day trading strategies
Smarter Trading Podcast Episode 16 Our guest today is Kunal Desai. Kunal is an American stock trader and CEO of Bulls on Wall Street, an online trading academy. He began trading in 1999 and has spent most of career perfecting momentum based day-trading strategies. In this episode we talk all about what it takes to…
Read MoreDr. Phil Pearlman — Take care of your body and mind to trade better
Smarter Trading Podcast Episode 13 Our guest today is Dr. Phil Pearlman. Phil earned his doctorate in clinical psychology and has been involved in markets since the 1990s. He’s currently the chief behavioral officer at Osprey Funds and has held roles at Yahoo Finance, Stocktwits, and Bank of the Ozarks. In this episode we talk…
Read MoreHow to Trade Meme Stocks
Meme stock trading has become a very emotional topic for a lot of traders. If you’ve been trading for a long time, then chances are, you think of meme stocks as a joke or a passing fad that won’t be around for much longer. If you’re brand new to markets, then you probably want to…
Read MoreBrian Lund — The better you know yourself the better you’ll trade
Smarter Trading Podcast Episode 7 Hello everybody, our guest today is Brian Lund, a fintech executive, investor, and writer with over 35 years of trading experience. Brian is the publisher of The Lund Loop, a weekly newsletter in which he writes about the intersection between markets, trading, and life. In this episode we talk about…
Read MoreSwing Trading for 20 Percent Returns is a Waste of Time
Recently I received a comment on our popular How to Get Started Swing Trading Stocks video that hit on a lot of important topics other traders could benefit from reading. The comment read “[swing trading for] 20% is [a] waist [sic] of time. Many stocks give you 100% or more a year passive income. Swing…
Read MoreHow to Make FinTwit Work for You & Suggested Traders to Follow
Gone are the days where the retail trader was limited to cable networks or expensive private subscriptions for news and discussions about stocks throughout the day.
Read MoreCommissions and Taxes Are Destroying Your Trading Profits
Eighteen thousand three hundred and sixty-four dollars. That was the total cost of commissions I paid to Scottrade when I just started trading. My trading account was around twenty-five thousand.
Read MoreDo You Have What it Takes to be a Trader?
Do you have what it takes to be a trader? Better yet, are you sure you want to be a trader? Actively trading public markets, and consistently profiting, is extremely difficult. The stock market is dominated by sophisticated players, with access to information, computational power, and speed far greater than any of us small retail…
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