After reading some of John Carter’s articles in Stocks, Futures and Options Magazine I was looking forward to reading his then upcoming book “Mastering the Trade: Proven Techniques for Profiting from Intraday and Swing Trading Setups“. It was obvious from his articles that John had some good insights into how the markets work and that [...]
Posted by 20 August 2005
Thoughts on Day Trading
2011 Update: You may also be interested in my article, Tools of the Trade, detailing how I trade as well as my hardware and software setup. 2010 Update – I (Mike) now trade exclusively with MB Trading. I suggest using stock brokers comparison site StockBrokers.com to compare the best day trading brokers. I’ve been exclusively [...]
Posted by 4 July 2005
Position Sizing
Position sizing could very well be the most important aspect of a trading system, yet, like expectancy, it’s rarely covered in trading books. A position sizing model simply tells you ‘how much’ or ‘how big’ of a position to take. Position sizing can be the key factor in whether or not you stay in the [...]
Posted by 5 December 2004
The Original Turtle Trading System
I know some of you (Duru) were disappointed with Michael Covel’s Trend Following book because of its lack of detail/trading rules. A friend of mine just sent me a link to OriginalTurtles.org which is giving away the rules to the original Turtle Trading System. They have a very interesting reason for giving the system away: [...]
Posted by 30 November 2004
A Question About Indicators
Here’s my answer to the following question which was posted in my comments yesterday by Gary: I’ve signed up for an evaluation of TC2000, which I was previously unaware of. However, after studying Worden’s videos and Help Contents on individual indicators, I’ve tried to find out if they would recommend where I could find info [...]
