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Extraordinary Situation; Ordinary Trade.
In yesterday’s post, I made a case for a bounce play in the Japanese stock market. Last night’s extreme move makes this call look kind of silly in retrospect, but I want to highlight some important points and lessons here. First of all, this really highlights the difference between “armchair quarterbacking” or “time machine trading” (as we like to call … Read More
Traders Ask: Determining Your Stop
Dear Bella, Where would your stop loss be for the lot you added when the sellers won at 76? More importantly, how does one determine the right spot to place your stop loss or your “line in the sand”, so to speak? I also traded BIDU today and I had 76.50 and 76.00 marked as key levels. I missed my … Read More
Anatomy of a Rip
I mentioned last week that I would blog the next time I took a rip of more than 1K. Unfortunately, I ripped up a lot more than that today. There were several reasons why I took this unnecessary loss and they were all my fault. Sometimes as a trader you will take a large loss due to market circumstances. But … Read More