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Top 20 Trading Rules

2008-01-14T00:00:00-07:00

1. Don't blame the market. You must take responsibility for your financial security and all of your actions.

2. Study and learn all you can. Choose one market to trade, many suggest the Dow Jones futures market, and become an expert in your area.
3. Be prepared for problems. Have a back-up phone ready with your brokers information in case of problems.
4. Have a notepad, pencil and calculator at hand to record trades.

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3 Keys to Money Management

2008-01-14T00:00:00-07:00

All of your trading, buying and selling, revolves around money. Therefore money management is about managing your business and maximizing your stock market trading profits.

There are five key elements to good trading money management:

1. Trading Capital
For every winner in futures trading there is a loser, this being so, you should consider trading as a battle and to fight the battle you need ammunition. Your trading capital (bank of money) is the ammunition you need to fight, if you run out of ammunition the war is over. You should keep your trading ...

6 Different Investment Philosophies

2007-12-11T00:00:00-07:00

To be successful with any investment strategy, you have to start out with an investment philosophy that is consistent in substance and one that corresponds not only to the markets you decide to invest in but your to your personal and individual characteristics as well. What is an Investment Philosophy? An investment philosophy is a logical method of thinking about markets, how the stock exchange system works, how and when you should buy or sell and even the types of mistakes that you believe consistently underlie investor behavior. Most investment strategies are fashioned ...

Primal vs Emotional Investing

2007-12-03T00:00:00-07:00

It is pretty apparent to most people who observe people act and react that they do a lot of what they do based on moderately primal and/or emotionally motivated impulses. Many experiments have been conducted to check the impact that primal instincts and emotion-based thinking has on investing and stock market psychology. They have generally proposed that when people are presented with ambiguity their emotions can overtake their logical thinking, guiding them to resist speculative propositions. This raises the challenging hypothesis that people who are less fearful than other people may produce more proficient investors. Modern developments in neuroscience have ...

Lifestyle Investing

2007-11-19T00:00:00-07:00

Did you know that income from your employment often helps you to diversify your investment risk? Much of the value in a young private business is the anticipated contribution of the principals of the business over the years ahead. The same applies to employees who allow for the value of their future earnings potential in making financial decisions (for example, in taking out a mortgage): prospective earnings reduce financial risk for any individual. This will have more value for someone who is young than for someone who is old, or for someone who is healthy than for someone whose future earnings ...