An insular Tahiti Traders are typically insular. This is simply based on the fact that a task so daunting requires absolute focus and determination. This doesn't allow much for an extensive social life, maybe even typical life at all. One [...]
When in doubt, zoom out Once the US$20 mark woke up the world and the seven years sideways zone was penetrated everybody asked where to get in, where to take profits and the typical headless chicken scenario unfolds fueled by [...]
The whys - Bitcoin ten thousand You don't need to know the news that try to explain why prices have moved. Price action right now is a good example of that. The crowd wakes up on the news when we [...]
Bitcoin - Next Attack On US$10,000 Bitcoin has been moving sideways for many many weeks. In the meantime precious metals and stock markets rallied significantly. As well, DeFi has been exploding over the last two months. Hence, Bitcoin and Ethereum look poised [...]
Start with hope Fake it till you make it - not quite that easy in trading with constant losses. You do need to start with hope though. Looking at our last round of entries into the Silver market (all posted in real-time [...]
The biggest fear, embarrassment Trading is an intimate sport. You can do it behind a closed door in your underwear. But at some point, if you don't make it in this profession it all comes out. One can't hide sustained [...]
Pain avoiding, pleasure seeking These are the main two forces that are driving humans. Diego Maradona, one of the most successful footballers of all time, was motivated for his success by desperately wanting to leave the Argentinian slums that he [...]
Concentration - The absence of irrelevant thought Concentration is the true edge in our times. You fool yourself thinking you have an edge in technology because everybody has high tech gear. Trying to trade successful from small hand held device [...]
Time, think again Time is a dimension of the physical universe where events happen in an irreversible succession. In this continued progression from the past into the present towards the future many abnormalities can be found. One of them being [...]
Never rarely sometimes always That is the typical cycle of breaking your own discipline in trading rules. First you swear to yourself you would never run a stop. Than it starts out you rarely do it anyway and are very [...]
