Monday, 31 December 2018
Quote for the day
“While end of the year is approaching you, let you start cleaning your heart & soul beginning from deterging your own dirty & filthy attitudes, behaviors, habits & meaningless lifestyle. Let you scrub out all the accumulated stains of your regrets, selfishness, annoyances & resentments from your soul. Let you wipe away all the leftover parts of the past that are unwanted & may restrict you from moving into the next year with confidence. Let you completely remove all the clutter from your schedule & your mind to create more space to focus on what is truly important. Let you do all you can to live at peace not only with your world but with yourself also & resolve all your conflicts quickly to lead a happy & blessed life. Stay Beautiful & Successful!” - Rajesh Goyal
Sunday, 30 December 2018
There Is No Santa Claus For Traders
By Steve Burns
I have good news and bad news for new traders and new investors.
First the bad news:
1. There is no Santa Claus for traders.
2. There is no kid with a fancy sports cars that can show you an easy way to trade penny stocks or crypto for millions.
3. There is no Holy Grail trading system that wins every time.
4. There is no best way to trade only the best way for you to trade or invest.
5. About 90% of active traders lose money.
6. You can’t trade for a living with a few thousand dollars.
7. 20% annual returns is near the best for most traders and investors.
8. You have drawdowns in capital as well as returns.
9. You can have losing days ,weeks, months, and even losing years.
10. You can’t expect to start trading and instantly make money it is usually a big learning curve.
Now the good news:
Now the good news:
1. There are trading systems that are profitable over the long term.
2. There are many successful traders you can learn from on social media for free.
3. There are many ways to make money in the markets.
4. Your search is for the best way for you to make money in the market.
5. About 10% of traders make life changing money, eventually.
6. You can reach financial independence from trading if you have enough capital and/or keep your living expenses low enough.
7. Compounding 20% returns doubles your money every 3.6 years.
8. You can minimize your drawdowns through proper position sizing and risk management.
9. You can have a losing day but a profitable week, You can having a losing week but a profitable month, You can have a losing month but a profitable year. Long term results are what are most important.
10. You can overcome the learning curve of trading by doing the right homework and creating a trading system with an edge that fits your personality and beliefs and then trade it with discipline and perseverance over the long term for life changing success.
There is no Santa Claus that will give you huge success with little effort but there are financial markets that contain huge opportunities for those willing to do the work.
Source: www.newtraderu.com
Quote for the day
“Your dignity can be mocked, abused, compromised, toyed with, lowered and even badmouthed, but it can never be taken from you. You have the power today to reset your boundaries, restore your image, start fresh with renewed values and rebuild what has happened to you in the past.” - Shannon L. Alder
Saturday, 29 December 2018
20 simple, but obvious, reminders about sound investing
By Jake DeKinder
With so much uncertainty flying around I thought it might help to remind ourselves of some fairly simple, and some would say obvious, advice on investing.
Sometimes as investors we need to be reminded of the simple and obvious stuff as it is often forgotten amongst all the noise, opinions, and predictions that are out there!
P.S. I’m no different…I still need to remind myself!
4. Any investment strategy with high expected returns should come with the expectation of ups and downs. The more risk the bigger the ups and downs.
5. A good investment strategy will always have periods when it falls in value. During these times it doesn’t become a bad strategy.
6. Risk can change shape or form, but it never really goes away.
7. There’s no such thing as a perfect portfolio, asset allocation or investment strategy.
8. No investor is right all the time.
9. No investment strategy can outperform at all times.
10. “I don’t know” is almost always the correct answer when someone asks you what’s going to happen in the markets.
11. If you invest in index funds you cannot outperform the market.
12.If you invest in active funds there’s a high probability you will underperform index funds.
13.If you are a buy and hold investor (as we are) you will take part in all of the gains but you also take part in all of the losses.
14. For buy and hold to truly work you have to do both when markets are falling (i.e. rebalancing your portfolio)
15. Proper diversification means always having to say you’re sorry about part of your portfolio.
16. There is no signal known to man that can consistently get you out right before the market falls and get you back in right before it rises again.
17. Compound interest is amazing but it takes a really long time to work.
18. Sound investment advice doesn’t really change all that much but most of the time people don’t want to hear sound investment advice.
19. Successful investing is more about your behaviour and temperament than your IQ or education.
20. Don’t be surprised when we have bear markets or recessions.
Source: http://www.brettinvestment.com
Sometimes as investors we need to be reminded of the simple and obvious stuff as it is often forgotten amongst all the noise, opinions, and predictions that are out there!
P.S. I’m no different…I still need to remind myself!
1. If you need to spend your money in a relatively short period of time it doesn’t belong in an investment portfolio linked to the stock market.
2. If you want to earn higher returns, you’re going to have to take more risk.
3. If you want more stability, you’re going to have to accept lower returns.
4. Any investment strategy with high expected returns should come with the expectation of ups and downs. The more risk the bigger the ups and downs.
5. A good investment strategy will always have periods when it falls in value. During these times it doesn’t become a bad strategy.
6. Risk can change shape or form, but it never really goes away.
7. There’s no such thing as a perfect portfolio, asset allocation or investment strategy.
8. No investor is right all the time.
9. No investment strategy can outperform at all times.
10. “I don’t know” is almost always the correct answer when someone asks you what’s going to happen in the markets.
11. If you invest in index funds you cannot outperform the market.
12.If you invest in active funds there’s a high probability you will underperform index funds.
13.If you are a buy and hold investor (as we are) you will take part in all of the gains but you also take part in all of the losses.
14. For buy and hold to truly work you have to do both when markets are falling (i.e. rebalancing your portfolio)
15. Proper diversification means always having to say you’re sorry about part of your portfolio.
16. There is no signal known to man that can consistently get you out right before the market falls and get you back in right before it rises again.
17. Compound interest is amazing but it takes a really long time to work.
18. Sound investment advice doesn’t really change all that much but most of the time people don’t want to hear sound investment advice.
19. Successful investing is more about your behaviour and temperament than your IQ or education.
20. Don’t be surprised when we have bear markets or recessions.
Source: http://www.brettinvestment.com
Quote for the day
“One of the hardest and truest things a grown-up learns is that sometimes it's not okay.”
- Christopher Buehlman
- Christopher Buehlman
Friday, 28 December 2018
Quote for the day
“Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there” - Zig Ziglar
Thursday, 27 December 2018
Quote for the day
“What you do matters — but not much. What you are matters tremendously.” - Catherine Doherty
Wednesday, 26 December 2018
Quote for the day
“The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it. Throw yourself.” - C. JoyBell C.
Tuesday, 25 December 2018
Quote for the day
"Grit is that ‘extra something’ that separates the most successful people from the rest. It’s the passion, perseverance, and stamina that we must channel in order to stick with our dreams until they become a reality." - Travis Bradberry
Monday, 24 December 2018
Quote for the day
"Working hard for something we don't care about is called stressed; working hard for something we love is called passion." -Simon Sinek
Sunday, 23 December 2018
Quote for the day
"Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment." - Stephen Covey
Saturday, 22 December 2018
Quote for the day
“An arrow can only be shot by pulling it backward. When life is dragging your back with difficulties, it means it’s going to launch you into something great. So just focus, and keep aiming” - Paulo Cohelo
Friday, 21 December 2018
Quote for the day
"Excellence is a great starting point for any new organisation but also an unending journey." - Azim Premji
Thursday, 20 December 2018
Quote for the day
"The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are. They are frank in admitting this and are willing to pay for such talents." - Antos Parrish
Wednesday, 19 December 2018
Quote for the day
"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success." - Dale Carnegie
Tuesday, 18 December 2018
Quote for the day
“When you realize there is something you don't understand, then you're generally on the right path to understanding all kinds of things.” - Jostein Gaarder
Monday, 17 December 2018
Quote for the day
“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.” - Maurice Switzer
Sunday, 16 December 2018
The Greatest Mistake Losing Traders Make
By Brett Steenbarger, Ph.D.
One of the greatest mistakes traders make is to allow their thought processes to get noisier as they lose money. They double down in their thinking about the market; they scan even harder for winning trades; they vent emotions about their losses. In short, they turn up the volume on their cognitive processes.
The core issue here is whether your trading is a performance skill like golf or a knowledge skill like mathematics. If I'm encountering difficulty with a math problem, I want to think harder and more creatively about finding the solution. Math requires explicit knowledge and problem solving. Golf, on the other hand, is more of an implicit learning skill where thinking more and harder frequently interferes with what the body knows. That creates the "yips".
If my trading is completely rule-governed and mathematical, a period of bad trading results probably means that market regimes have changed. In that case, I want to double down on my market analysis and see where patterns of trend, volatility, correlation, etc. have shifted. Analysis in that situation facilitates adaptation.
If my trading is intuitive and based upon pattern recognition, a period of bad trading results also could mean that market regimes have changed. Doubling down on analysis, however, facilitates paralysis; explicit processing interferes with implicit performance skill. Thinking harder about why your audience is not responding to the speech you're delivering will only interfere with your delivery and make the situation much worse.
My theory is that investment is an explicit performance domain. Trading is based on implicit learning and performance.
When traders encounter problems and shift into the cognitive mode of investors, they lose touch with their implicit, pattern-recognition skills. It's not simply that they overthink. They shift to the wrong information processing mode. In a literal, cognitive sense, they are out of their right minds.
Here's a great article for you:
One of the greatest mistakes traders make is to allow their thought processes to get noisier as they lose money. They double down in their thinking about the market; they scan even harder for winning trades; they vent emotions about their losses. In short, they turn up the volume on their cognitive processes.
The core issue here is whether your trading is a performance skill like golf or a knowledge skill like mathematics. If I'm encountering difficulty with a math problem, I want to think harder and more creatively about finding the solution. Math requires explicit knowledge and problem solving. Golf, on the other hand, is more of an implicit learning skill where thinking more and harder frequently interferes with what the body knows. That creates the "yips".
If my trading is completely rule-governed and mathematical, a period of bad trading results probably means that market regimes have changed. In that case, I want to double down on my market analysis and see where patterns of trend, volatility, correlation, etc. have shifted. Analysis in that situation facilitates adaptation.
If my trading is intuitive and based upon pattern recognition, a period of bad trading results also could mean that market regimes have changed. Doubling down on analysis, however, facilitates paralysis; explicit processing interferes with implicit performance skill. Thinking harder about why your audience is not responding to the speech you're delivering will only interfere with your delivery and make the situation much worse.
My theory is that investment is an explicit performance domain. Trading is based on implicit learning and performance.
When traders encounter problems and shift into the cognitive mode of investors, they lose touch with their implicit, pattern-recognition skills. It's not simply that they overthink. They shift to the wrong information processing mode. In a literal, cognitive sense, they are out of their right minds.
Here's a great article for you:
It's about teaching golf through implicit learning. The article cites a study in which two groups were taught putting skills. One group was given detailed instruction; the other group was given ample practice and left to figure out what to do on their own. When tested, the first group displayed greater knowledge of putting, but in subsequent performance, the first group did not outperform the second group. Indeed, in pressure situations, the group that was taught how to putt was more likely to choke than the group that learned through experience.
Why was that?
Under stress, the explicit learning group went back to their instruction and focused on what they should be doing. That shift to explicit thinking interfered with the performance skill and led to the choking. Amplifying the volume on their cognitive processes provided interference, not inspiration. The implicit learning group had no lessons to focus on and were more likely to rely on muscle memory, reducing the likelihood of choking.
The big takeaway from all this is that, if your trading is based on pattern recognition and a feel for markets, you want to become quieter when you encounter problems, not noisier. In finding the quiet beneath our 50,000 daily thoughts, we can apprehend the new patterns being displayed by markets and pick up a feel for them.
The worse you perform, the quieter you want to become. If you're a trader, not an investor, never let your thinking interfere with your information processing.
Why was that?
Under stress, the explicit learning group went back to their instruction and focused on what they should be doing. That shift to explicit thinking interfered with the performance skill and led to the choking. Amplifying the volume on their cognitive processes provided interference, not inspiration. The implicit learning group had no lessons to focus on and were more likely to rely on muscle memory, reducing the likelihood of choking.
The big takeaway from all this is that, if your trading is based on pattern recognition and a feel for markets, you want to become quieter when you encounter problems, not noisier. In finding the quiet beneath our 50,000 daily thoughts, we can apprehend the new patterns being displayed by markets and pick up a feel for them.
The worse you perform, the quieter you want to become. If you're a trader, not an investor, never let your thinking interfere with your information processing.
Source: http://traderfeed.blogspot.com
Quote for the day
“The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.”
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein
Saturday, 15 December 2018
Quote for the day
“Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.” - Bertrand Russell,
Friday, 14 December 2018
Quote for the day
“If you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll end up miserable.” - Brandon Sanderson,
Thursday, 13 December 2018
Quote for the day
“Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”
- Paulo Coelho
- Paulo Coelho
Wednesday, 12 December 2018
Quote for the day
“Focus on what is ahead of you, but never forget what is behind you.” - Lee J. Grover
Tuesday, 11 December 2018
Quote for the day
“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.” - Maya Angelou
Monday, 10 December 2018
Sunday, 9 December 2018
10 Things That Doom New Traders
Here are 10 things that new traders can do that doom them to be unprofitable. The quicker a new trader can change these behaviors the quicker they can get on the right path to be profitable when the market is conducive to their trading method.
1. Not doing any homework before putting real money at risk is a mistake.
2. A new trader needs to have their own goals for returns and understand their own risk tolerance.
3. Not having realistic return goals can lead to risking too much and lead to big losses.
4. Trading with no plan leads to pure randomness in results. It does not matter if a new trader is profitable if their process is not repeatable.
5. Not fully understanding how options, Forex, or futures markets work before trading them.
6. Trading in illiquid markets that cause big losses between the bid/ask spreads can erode trading capital.
7. Not having a way to backtest trading theories before implementing strategies.
8. Changing a trading strategy each time the market changes leads to chaos in results.
9. Looking endlessly for a trading system that never loses or makes money every day, week, or month. They do not exist, there is no Holy Grail of trading, the markets are always changing. The right question is what trading system with an edge can you trade over the long term?
10. New traders that are always learning and never trading. After you have done your homework, backtested, and created your trading system. There is a day that you have to start putting real money at risk if you really want to continue to learn about yourself.
1. Not doing any homework before putting real money at risk is a mistake.
2. A new trader needs to have their own goals for returns and understand their own risk tolerance.
3. Not having realistic return goals can lead to risking too much and lead to big losses.
4. Trading with no plan leads to pure randomness in results. It does not matter if a new trader is profitable if their process is not repeatable.
5. Not fully understanding how options, Forex, or futures markets work before trading them.
6. Trading in illiquid markets that cause big losses between the bid/ask spreads can erode trading capital.
7. Not having a way to backtest trading theories before implementing strategies.
8. Changing a trading strategy each time the market changes leads to chaos in results.
9. Looking endlessly for a trading system that never loses or makes money every day, week, or month. They do not exist, there is no Holy Grail of trading, the markets are always changing. The right question is what trading system with an edge can you trade over the long term?
10. New traders that are always learning and never trading. After you have done your homework, backtested, and created your trading system. There is a day that you have to start putting real money at risk if you really want to continue to learn about yourself.
Source: www.newtraderu.com
Quote for the day
“Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.” - J.K. Rowling,
Saturday, 8 December 2018
Quote for the day
“It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.” - Roy T. Bennett
Friday, 7 December 2018
Thursday, 6 December 2018
Quote for the day
"The difference between greed and ambition is a greedy person desires things he isn't prepared to work for." - Habeeb Akande
Wednesday, 5 December 2018
Tuesday, 4 December 2018
Quote for the day
“Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.” - Plato
Monday, 3 December 2018
Sunday, 2 December 2018
Quote for the day
"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." - Helen Keller
Saturday, 1 December 2018
Quote for the day
"The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty." - Zig Ziglar
Friday, 30 November 2018
Thursday, 29 November 2018
Quote for the day
“Don’t rush, just because you have reasons! Reason with the reasons and take definite action in the right direction, in haste, where needed, or with patience, where it is essential to do so! Mind your thought and think about your action!” - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Wednesday, 28 November 2018
Quote for the day
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle
Tuesday, 27 November 2018
Quote for the day
"The key to trading success is emotional discipline. If intelligence were the key, there would be a lot more people making money trading." - Victor Sperandeo
Monday, 26 November 2018
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