If you ask any successful trader or investor the following question “Is the market random?” I bet Most of them will say, to some extent the market is random but there are certain patterns that the market follows every time...
“Everybody gets what they want out of the market, some people seem to like to lose, so they win by losing money.” These are the words of probably one of the greatest traders of all time, Ed Seykota. An MIT engineer who was...
When I started my trading journey, I used to believe that to succeed in Markets, reading news and predicting market direction were the most important factors. Of course, these are important for many successful discretionary...
Here is a talk between two market wizards, Mark Minervini and David Ryan. If you have not listened to it already, I recommend you to listen to it at earliest. You will probably thank me later. One thing that caught my mind in...
Trend is your friend until the end where it bends – Ed Seykota And before bending, it remains in range bound for quite a time. Overall, the markets remain range bound for more than 75% of the time. Thus, plain Vanilla...
If most traders would learn to sit on their hands 50 percent of the time, they would make a lot more money – Bill Lipschutz The Story Assume that there are two traders, Akshay and Binod (Yepp, Binod is back...
We often hear this proverb in the market. When the price of a security is driven by fear, the majority of the investors/traders tends to make irrational investment decisions. As a trader we can gain from this opportunity but how...
Before the arrival of COVID-19, we all felt that we had complete control over our life. College graduates planned to start their corporate career or attend a new college to do their post graduation, a family had its vacation...
Human beings being social animals are emotional. Our surroundings affect our emotional behavior and decision making. We are quite influenced by our state of mind when taking important decisions. Back in childhood, I used to make...
Life is simple, its just not easy – Steve Maraboli The above quote fits very well for plain Vanilla trading strategies. Straddles and Strangles can seem to be very easy strategies to trade, but only when one starts...