Monthly Archives: December 2022

Size Matters

If either your spouse, your girlfriend, or your broker ever tell you that “size doesn’t matter” then rest assured that you are being lied to. And yes it does matter ‘how you use it’ but it comes with some caveats.

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  • last year

Being Right Will Make Being Broke A Certainty

If you’d ask me to pick the #1 reason why a majority of new traders end up being shaken out sooner or later, I would point without hesitation at the compulsive need of wanting to be proven right. No contest. Nothing even comes close. A stubborn insistence on being proven right continues to wreak havoc on trading accounts all over the world year after year.

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  • last year

All Traders Should Be Trading Volatility Products

In the world of trading and financial blogs it’s easy to get overrun with useless and outright false information. Over the years I have had many brushes with the turbulent world of prop trading, so I can tell you some secrets that pros know and retail traders only wish they knew. Until now!

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  • Mike
  • last year

Merry Christmas!

It’s a sunny 60F (15C) here in the upper regions of the Pyrenees with exactly zero possibility of a white Christmas. However that hasn’t kept Mrs. Evil and I from kicking our Christmas celebrations into high gear. Unfortunately Spain is one of the worst countries on the planet right after Indochina or the Sahara desert to observe Christmas. So as someone who grew up in beautiful and snowy Austria one has to go the extra mile to get into the spirit of things.

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  • last year

We All Suffer From Cognitive Bias

One thing all traders have in common is that we are all human. Which means we are all subject to the whims and flows of our emotions in our logical decision making process. If you think you are the one exception, think again. Let me explain.

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  • Mike
  • last year

Algos Account For The Majority Of All Trading Volume

In the world of trading and financial blogs it’s easy to get overrun with useless and outright false information.Over the years I have had many brushes with the turbulent world of prop trading, so I can tell you some secrets that pros know and retail traders only wish they knew. Until now!

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  • Mike
  • last year

Technical Analysis Is Highly Subjective

In the world of trading and financial blogs it’s easy to get overrun with useless and outright false information. Over the years I have had many brushes with the turbulent world of prop trading, so I can tell you some secrets that pros know and retail traders only wish they knew. Until now!

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  • Mike
  • a couple of years ago