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[dc]I[/dc] want to share an important exercise with you today. The journey along the path to trading mastery can be difficult because it requires some conflicting skills—on one hand, you must rule certain aspects of your behavior with iron discipline and must also begin managing your thoughts
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[dc]W[/dc]e've all heard sayings like "to fail to plan is to plan to fail" and "plan the trade. Trade the plan." These are catchy sayings, but, ask yourself, how good is your plan? Is it good enough? Does it have enough
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[dc]T[/dc]oday, I want to share with you an entirely new way for you to meditate. This short series has, so far, focused on different ways to use your breath as a focal point for attention, and it's time to expand that and bring some new
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[dc]I[/dc]f you have been following along with my previous posts on meditation, you have spent a week or so simply sitting, watching your breath, and letting your mind relax. Many of you may have had experiences like Nathan, who writes, "Hi Adam: Great practical exercise. I
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[dc]T[/dc]oday I want to follow up on my previous posts on the rally in the Indian stock market and think a bit about how to balance technical and fundamental factors. Not so long ago, the idea that anyone could figure out anything from looking at patterns on
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[dc]S[/dc]o, if you read my first article on meditation here, and tried my suggested plan, you have gotten a taste of meditation. (To recap, I suggested sitting for five minutes twice a day, and simply watching your breath go in and out.) What happened? If you'
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Reader Shai suggests a clarification on my last post, specifically concerning the gap and the idea of slippage being a good sign for a trade: Like always great posts. Again, thank you! There is one thing I would consider mentioning regarding the issue of slippage in the sense of Gaps
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[dc]I[/dc] wanted to follow up on my recent post about trading the rally in India. I ended that post with a question: We were planning to enter EPI (an earnings-weighted India ETF) on a breakout above a long daily consolidation. However, the market gapped open far above our
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[dc]A[/dc]s I promised last week, I'm going to start posting on some different topics and broadening the scope of this blog a little bit. (Depending on the reception, maybe a lot, but we will see.) Let's jump off today by starting to think
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[dc]T[/dc]oday I want to take a look at the recent move in India's stock market. I will discuss how we traded it (and signaled the move far in advance) in the research I write for Waverly Advisors, but, even more importantly, there are lessons for
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Reader Andrew asks (paraphrased question): Can I first of all say that I recently discovered this website and your book and I think they are fantastic! I would like to congratulate you on a great job with both of them. I have only read the first few pages of your
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Today, I want to write a bit about the value of keeping charts by hand. I've written on this topic before, but I think it is so important it's worth another reminder here. Though it is time consuming and is probably one of the oldest of