Measuring Trading Performance So how did your trading go today? And how does that compare with yesterday and every day last week and last month?Some traders would answer those questions in terms of dollars gained and dollars lost. Others would measure their performance in percentages. Some...
Dear Traders,The market has given us another crazy and volatile day. What a day to be a trader! The market gapped up and traded stronger, and I personally traded TSLA, TQQQ, and AMD. Brian took TQQQ and RBLX successfully. You can watch our recap here. Amazing...
Dear Traders,The inflation report for September has come in and it indicates that inflation last month was hotter than expected (albeit hot inflation is not really news anymore). The market gapped down significantly, over 2%, and everyone was anticipating a big meltdown again, but the...
Rule 1: Day trading is not a strategy to get rich quickly. Day trading looks deceptively easy, so one of the most important lessons you can learn, regardless of your level of experience, is that you will not get rich quickly by trading. It is not...
Dear Traders, The market continues to be volatile, but choppy, meaning volatile and directionless moves. Today, I had a very nice short on TSLA and then flipped the position on long and profited both ways. I then experienced a series of small losses on TQQQ, AMD,...
An often neglected or disregarded aspect of trading is the development of a proper “business plan”. Do not get this confused though with your daily trading plan (the “if-then” statements you develop each trading day) and what I will soon be describing as your trading...
Dear Traders,The market is experiencing another volatile day. It sold off heavily at the Open, but bounced back around lunch time. As I am writing these words, the market is almost flat, but who knows how it will end. I suffered a heavy loss trading a...
Dear Traders,What a crazy and volatile market to trade in. We have just learned that the US economy created 263,000 jobs in September. Not only that, but the unemployment rate also fell further, down to 3.5%, while expectations were for it to remain at 3.7%....
Dear Traders,Today is the day that weekly jobless claim numbers in the US are released. Analysts are expecting a reading of 204K, after last week's surprisingly strong 193K print. The weekly claims report is an important datapoint these days. After last week's strong numbers, stocks...
A large volume of professional literature has been published on the benefits of journaling, particularly in the fields of mental health and psychology. Not unlike the lockable diaries that children and adolescents in earlier times hid under their mattresses, journals are a way of recording...