Hope your doing well. I just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate your book, “One Good Trade”. I have the audible version and with my hour commute to and from work to (brokerage firm). I’ve listened to it countless times. Yesterday afternoon I decided to listen to it after a rather disappointing month of trading and caught … Read More
Trade Triage- Damage control techniques for poor entries
In this discussion, we’ll discuss the example of the incorrect entry using an option strike with lots of time to expiration -and different ways we can employ damage control on a trade that looks to be upside down for a time. All commentary is hypothetical, and solely my opinion and what I might potentially do if I had this position. … Read More
Sizing and Entries in This Volatile Market
Surviving as a professional day trader means adapting to the ever changing conditions you’re presented with. In this volatile market how you size your positions at entry is so important. If you think you can still set stops tight like you did when the VXX was in the teens you will miss a lot of nice moves because you got … Read More
Why Am I Getting Stopped Out More? (Part III)
How to use wicks and other traders’ mistakes to our advantage.