Perhaps because we offer several long-only systems we have often been asked if there is a difference in trading the long side of a market vs. trading the short side. I think most experienced futures traders would quickly agree that there are inherent differences between trading long versus trading short. […]
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This article reproduced with permission from Brett Steenbarger When people hear that I am an active trader and a professional psychologist, they naturally want to hear about techniques for mastering emotions in trading. That is an important topic to be sure, and later in this article I will even have […]
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This tutorial written and reproduced with permission from Peter Ponzo I’ve never been enthusiastic about the common assumptions that stock returns are distributed normally or lognormally or … whatever. For example, the normal and lognormal distributions look like Figure 1a. The normal density distribution is described by: [1] […]
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We often hear from students by letter, telephone, and in person at seminars, that they greatly desire to trade managed money. At the opposite end of the spectrum, we also hear from students who want money managed for them. In either case, the experience can be gut wrenching. This chapter […]
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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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