Posts Tagged ‘Discretionary Trading’
Brian Shannon — Swing trading stocks using multiple time-frames
Smarter Trading Podcast Episode 9 Hello everybody, our guest today is Brian Shannon of Alphatrends.net. Brian started his professional investing career in 1991 as a retail stock broker and then quickly moved on to follow his true passion of trading, in 1994, which he continues to do full-time to this day. Brian holds a…
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 MoreDavid Settle — Implied volatility is overrated – Options trading framework
Smarter Trading Podcast Episode 8 Hello everybody, our guest today is David Settle. David started in the investor education world in 2004 with Investools. He’s coached hundreds of individuals on how to invest and trade the stock, options and forex markets and he currently holds a CMT designation. In this episode we dive into…
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 MoreGregory Krupinski — Multiple timeframe swing trading framework
Smarter Trading Podcast Episode 6 Hello everybody, our guest today is Gregory Krupinski. Greg has been trading markets for about 20 years, all while working a full time job, raising kids, blogging, and continuing to find time to learn and improve his process. In this episode we talk about having balance, juggling real life…
Read MoreSean McLaughlin — Options trading, implied volatility & trading truths
Smarter Trading Podcast Episode 5 Hello everybody, our guest today is Sean McLaughlin, aka @chicagosean on social media. Sean is the chief options strategist for All Star Charts and Senior Market Strategist at Trade Ideas. He’s been trading for over 20 years starting out as a prop trader during the late 90s, founded a…
Read MoreAnne-Marie Baiynd — Patience, process, and placing trades on your own terms
Smarter Trading Podcast Episode 4 Anne-Marie Baiynd joins us in Episode 4 of Smarter Trading to share her insights from nearly 20 years trading futures, stocks, and options. We discuss her dynamic strategy of analyzing the battle of supply and demand across multiple time-frames. We also get into techniques to avoid beating yourself up…
Read MorePosition Size Versus Stop Loss Tug of War
A couple of weeks ago, I had a Skype consultation with “Bill.” He’s a new trader who started over the past few months but not a stranger to markets, having actively invested in mutual funds and his retirement for a long time. On our call, we covered a wide range but there was one topic…
Read MoreHow to Maximize Your Screen Time Adjusted Returns
Chances are you’ve heard of the concept of risk-adjusted returns. If you haven’t, it basically means that a strategy’s returns should be measured relative to the risk taken to achieve them. There’s a handful of ways to grade the efficiency of trading systems in this category such as Sharpe, Sortino, MAR, Ulcer index, and the…
Read MoreTrading Mistakes and Bad Habits to Avoid
I was recently asked about some of the trading mistakes new traders run into when getting started trading. It was easy to come up with a lengthy list, mainly because I’ve personally made all of these mistakes myself, and in most cases, more than once. I thought it would be fun to put together a…
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