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I thought you might be wondering by now… does trend trading really make money? There is so much evidence that it does. Click here for proof. I lived in London about 11 years ago and that was where I had my first run-in with trend profits. I was working with a multi-billion dollar hedge fund [...]
“Losers have Goals, Winners have Systems” The title of this post is a quote – and you won’t believe who said it! It’s not a Legendary Trader or a Type-A Billionaire, or even an elite athlete. It’s someone you’d never expect to talk about losers and winners in such a way. But before we get [...]
I was being pushed, shoved, and yelled at, but I still fought to get there. Unfortunately, when I got there, I lost $250,000 in one second. I think it might have set some kind of record for a huge loss. Once I looked up how big the stack of 100′s would be, all 2,500 of [...]
When you are a trend follower, you might notice something disturbing. During times your account is going up in value, you won’t feel as though its going up at all. You’ll have a good month, and it won’t feel like you made any money at all. You’ll put together a string of good months, but [...]
When people first get start trading, they think trading is about making good analysis of a trade before you enter the market. What experienced traders know is getting out is the important part. Getting out of trades is how money is made and lost in trading. The unfortunate truth is there is nothing you can [...]
**New Trade Alert – Long Crude*** The TF 101 system did get long crude from the open. The system is once again long crude. I am far more worried about this trade – the crude market seems extremely fragile to me. My friend Chris Cook was mentioned in the FT today. He says there is [...]
The biggest change in traded products over the last 5 years has been the huge, huge boom in Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). ETFs aren’t totally new, but in the last 5 years, the number – and variety – of ETFs exploded from a handful to many hundreds and hundreds. ETF’s take active trading ideas and [...]
Good news today – some of my market analysis was picked up by a major website! I mentioned President Obama could use the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to lower the price of oil. But really – he didn’t even need to do that much. He could just leak the government was thinking about using the [...]
***Trade Alert – Buy Soybeans, Roll Currencies*** Before we get to the grains, here is something you must do on Monday. We need to roll the currencies Monday. Roll them from March to June. The currency symbol is “H” for March. You’ll need to move your positions to June, or “M”. Rolling the positions is easy. [...]
Monetary Realism
