I'm just writing this as I sit here, trying to occupy my mind on something other than trading. I was lazy today, not paying attention really and missed the opportunity on a couple of great trades this

The Random Walk Hypothesis supposes that markets are essentially random in nature and thus cannot be predicted. I have to say from my experience this seems to be the case a lot of the time, especially

I saw this beauty again recently and it's a fairly common one. The (horseshit) theory being that as the price is falling, you should buy more and more at ever decreasing values, and when the price is

I was thinking about the Dogs of the Dow the other day and it got me thinking, would something like that work for crypto ? I think it probably could. For anyone who doesn't know the concept, I'll explain

This is another of the seven deadly sins in trading, and it's a subset of FOMO. This has probably happened to a lot of you in your trading career, it certainly has for me. It's very similar to FOMO where

Ah, one of the seven deadly sins in trading, pure greed... I'm guilty of this one sometimes and I'm trying hard to overcome it. A lot of you can probably sympathise. You see a stock that's taking off but

I love reading other peoples technical analysis of charts, because more often than not it's pure speculation (in other words 100% horseshit). The amazing thing is, everyone pretty much gets taught the

One of my biggest regrets is not keeping a diary of my trades. I don't even have a clue now when I started to improve at trading and not suck so much (and I sucked a lot). It's easy to just use your account

Or so I thought... This is the (short) story of how I lost an awful lot of money because I was an idiot who thought I knew better. I hadn't been share trading long, this is way back while I was still messing

The last recession was a big wake up call for a lot of people, especially those who were retiring only to find their pension was wiped out and they got literally nothing. I came to the conclusion then,

If you've ever watched any 'Day in the life of a Trader' type videos, you'll note they all have one thing in common - they all get up at some indecent ungodly hour to start the day. I'm one of the laziest

Are markets fractal in nature ? despite what you've been told, no... The theory is that you can look at any bare chart without a timescale and not tell what the timescale is. While this is true from a

I know this post is going to upset just about everyone who reads it, but it's my personal opinion and I hope I'm proved wrong in time. I can definitely see a future for crypto, and I love the idea of

Yes, I know backtesting is boring, but it's absolutely critical to measure statistics of your system before you commit any real money to the market. The only way to make money in the market is to have

This is just a general ramble about learning to trade, no particular purpose ! YouTube (or any social media) is a great resource for learning about trading, especially when starting out as a new trader.

Why do people feel the need to produce migraine inducing charts with hundreds of indicators, so much that you can barely read the price ? Often the chart is to point out something simple like a support

Because... The word most often forgotten or mis-used by novice traders. Every trading decision needs a reason, and to be a good reason. The price of an asset moves for a reason, and it's that reason that

There's a saying in the industry that's fairly common, the '90-90-90 rule'. It goes along the lines, 90% of traders lose 90% of their money in the first 90 days. If you're reading this then you're probably

Hey all, I'm a financial day trader and thought I'd write a series of articles on what trading for an income is actually like in the real world, and hopefully dispel a lot of the myths... There are tons