One of the most important things you need to do to be successful when short term trading for income or long term trading for wealth is to have proper focus.
Focus
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Is the Market Liking FB?
Between the budgetary haggling and the Greek financing issues, the market has plenty to keep itself on hold.
Volatility Trading Digest: Strategy & More Hedging
Trade selection using volatility as the primary criteria. Different trades for different volatility opportunities.
Volatility Trading Digest – Golden Hedge
With breakdowns below key support levels for both the S&P 500 Index (SPX), PowerShares QQQ (QQQ), along with several others, the time has come to get busy increasing hedge positions while adding a new SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) to the book.
Pre-Market 11/12/12
A pre-market snapshot for Monday, November 12
Option Block 197: Driving Towards the Fiscal Cliff
Sebas leads the charge on this episode and nails it.
Market Makers and the Option Chain
Today we?ll talk about what the option chain can tell us about whether trading a particular option might be too costly, in the sense that the ?markup? on it is too high.
So What?s Coming Next?
Never make the mistake of thinking that you will ever really know what will happen next in the market.
The S&P Has a Seasonal Pattern? Really?
Yes, most definitely?along with all other financial Futures contracts.
Thoughts on AAPL Risk
Hurricane Sandy and the recent decline in Apple Inc. (AAPL) stock is a reminder of how ?black swan? events can impact our lives in unforeseen and unforeseeable ways.
Rules of the Game
In trading we have rules of the game. And like baseball, if you cannot accept them, you cannot play the game.
Color With Numbers
All traders should be planning their trades before they enter them. The three critical pieces to that plan are: the entry level for the trade, the target for profit, and most importantly, the stop where you will exit if the trade doesn?t work out.