“The journey of a 1,000 miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
Success in trading takes time,energy, study, & effort. The way to begin is to start working on your process today. Keep working on each step required to be successful, one by one, keep moving closer to your goal
The steps to successful trading are:
1. Watchlist 2. TimeFrame 3. Backtesting 4. Diversification for markets & signals 5. Position sizing 6. Max risk exposure 7. Drawdown risk tolerance 8. Win% 9. Risk/reward ratio 10. Return estimate
The District of Columbia is suing MicroStrategy $MSTR founder & executive chairman Michael Saylor for allegedly never having paid any income taxes in the district in the 10+ years he has lived there, AG Karl A. Racine announced in a tweet on Wednesday. CoinDesk #Bitcoin
Here are ten principles from Sun Tzu that I believe we can translate to trading the markets:
“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.” – Sun Tzu, The Art of War
The markets extremes can defeat us when it appears strong when it is extremely overbought and due for a reversal or it appears weak but is extremely oversold and due for a bounce.
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” – Sun Tzu
In 1996 two professors studied a sample of millionaires in the United States to understand the path that took them to a million dollar net worth. The results were very surprising as their path and lifestyle was very unexpected. They studied self-made millionaires.
Here is what that study found that worked for the millionaires they surveyed:
Expected win versus loss percentage. Knowing your expected winning percentage performance is the first step to profitability.
Average win size. The higher your winning percentage, the smaller your wins need to be. The smaller your winning percentage, the bigger you wins must be to make you profitable.
Powell warns of ‘some pain’ ahead as the Fed fights to bring down inflation
Fed Chairman Jerome Powell on Friday pledged that the central bank will “use our tools forcefully” to attack inflation that is still running near its highest level in more than 40 years.