TRADING STOCKS FOR A LIVING
There is so much BS on the Internet on stock trading. After spending many years failing, learning and developing my own strategy, I was finally able to make the switch 7 years ago and become a full-time independent trader. Let me tell you the truth about what it takes, what works and what doesn’t in the realm of Stock Trading
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R and R-multiples
R and R-Multiples R (aka R-value) and R-multiples is a concept developed by Dr. Van K. Tharp., the well-known professional trading coach who wrote several trading books such as “Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom” or “The Definitive Guide to Position Sizing”. So what...
The Truth About Trading For a Living
I did a one-hour presentation online a while back at Traders Fest, a yearly event organized by Rayner Teo, a trader from Singapore. I talked about a subject not often often talked about. Yet I know a lot of traders are interested in this topic, which is trading...
2019 Review
Timeline 2009I lost $700,000, or 70% of all the money I had in a trade gone seriously wrong.2010I lost another $100,000 in a failed start-up business. I then decided to go back to trading.2013I reached a low point of $35,000 left in my trading account.But after taking...
My First Half of 2019 Trading Review
It's this period of the year. The period when I reflect about my first half of the year, both on a personal level, and of course on a trading level. This is the period when I dare facing the harsh reality of what happened in my life, how I performed trading-wise. It's...
How I Shifted My Focus From Money to Trading
10 years ago, I lost a whopping $700k in the market. That was 70% of all the money I had at the time.The details are not that important, but it is something 99% of traders went through, or will go through: a mentally devastating loss. To add pain to injury, as you...
My Trading Journal – New Features
I've just spent the last 2 months creating myself a new trading journal on Google Sheets. The reason it took me that long was that I've added new personalized tools to it in order to: 1- help me reduce my trading mistakes2- make it easy to check what would...