4 Things to Do When There's No Trade to be Made
Overtrading. It's a bad habit.
Sometimes, we make trades for the simple fact that we are in front of our computers and the markets are open. Then, we hold onto those trades and make them positions —...
Overtrading. It's a bad habit.
Sometimes, we make trades for the simple fact that we are in front of our computers and the markets are open. Then, we hold onto those trades and make them positions —...
Experts say that there is no better way to learn to trade than to teach. That's something that Steve Burns, trader and the founder of New Trader U, has taken to heart. From his time trading the...
Each year, the CME Group hosts a trading challenge for college and university students worldwide. More than 500 teams compete worldwide to see who can trade the CME’s futures products the best. Our...
This is our second piece in a three-part series on the 2008 Financial Crisis. For the first piece, please see “10 Years Later: 4 Universal Trading Lessons from the Great Recession.”
Under normal...
You think that trading legends don't make the same mistakes that you do? You'd be wrong. This year, Bill Gross cost his investors more than $150 million in losses — 8% of his $2 billion portfolio —...
"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail." — Benjamin Franklin
The market is not going to give you anything. If you don't prepare for the trading day, your screen won't flash a message to...
There is a difference between reviewing your trades and being a Monday morning quarterback. Being a Monday morning quarterback is about the ifs and buts. If I would have held onto that /ES short, I...
You love trading. And you may think you were born to do this. You weren't. No one was.
In fact, everything about our biology is working against our success. Think about it. What are the traits of a...
The next financial crisis will not look like the last. That we can be sure. But while that may be true, there are a lot of lessons and gems packed into the financial crisis that hit hardest in...
One of the things that have helped humans progress is the fact that we've been able to build on our sum of knowledge over the course of our existence.
If you are trying to become a better trader —...
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