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Complicating the Uncomplicated | Making Foundational Trades

We have a natural tendency to overcomplicate just about everything in life, and in this business, there's an endless sea of hubris. My second job was working under a guy on an FX desk for
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Trading Plans: Too Often, Recipes for Chaos

In the early days of this site, I was asked a generic question from one of these large, mostly online financial publishing companies. It was something along the lines of “What's your best piece of
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No Fight, Just Flight | Death by a Thousand Papercuts

For a while I've been wanting to go through this site and just post a series of short form items that go for the jugular, if you know what I mean. So here is my
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A Few Books Relating to Execution

I feel as though I can never take in enough when it comes to execution. Had I known years ago what I know now, I would have made this a much higher priority in my
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The Trader's Guide to Mythological Constructs

Like anything else, trading has its fair share of fads. They come and (generally) have a much harder time disappearing vs. something like fanny packs. People are drawn to novelties and things perceived as “easy”.
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Prevail Versus Fail: Sophistication and Preparation

Many traders I come across have a very loosely defined notion of what they intend to do every day: identify some support and resistance, see how price is trending, check the news, run some indicators,
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My Notes, and Changing the Perceptions of Novice Traders

As with anyone else, as I get older, I get tired of nonsense and slightly impatient when it comes to progress. Despite the occasional silence on this blog, I take a large amount of calls
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The Crypto Backdoor to Freedom of Leverage, Hedging Other Instruments?

Crypto currencies have been on my radar lately. Not because I like getting smoked in illiquid markets, but because creative, alternative uses for them have skyrocketed in the past 3 years, and I just really
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Why a Swing Trading, “Hands-Behind-Your-Back Strategy” Never Worked for Me

Last night, I had a great conversation with a gentleman who has been following my work/this site for many years now and as a result, we have come to know each other casually via email,
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