By Gibbons Burke January 2000 Abstract / Introduction: Money management is like sex: Everyone does it, one way or another, but not many like to talk about it and some do it better than others. But there’s a big difference: Sex sites on the Web proliferate, while sites devoted to […]
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Every day, traders must make decisions: What to trade. When to enter. How large a position to take. When to exit. Whether the system is healthy. Discretionary traders acknowledge the subjectivity of their decisions and draw on experience. Systematic traders use objective functions designed to identify important decision criteria and quantify […]
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… from the greatest trader ever! In the early part of the 20th century, Jesse Livermore was the most successful (and most feared) stock trader on Wall Street. He called the stock market crash of 1907 and once made $3 million in a single day. In 1929, Livermore went short […]
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By Thom Hartle Abstract / Introduction: Ed Seykota, whose thoughts and insights were chronicled in Jack Schwager’s book Market Wizards, has been involved with trading commodities since the late 1960s. According to Market Wizards, Seykota’s “model account” — an actual customer account — started with $5,000 in 1972 and to date […]
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This article reproduced with permission from Brett Steenbarger Here is an interesting observation drawn from the past six months of working with a large group of full-time traders: The most successful of the group never change the displays on their screens. Each morning the same information appears in the same […]
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