It’s quite funny, really, the extent people go to to make themselves feel certain and ‘safe’ in the market environment – an environment that is characterised by uncertainty and risk.
It’s not only private traders like myself, either; this desire to create certainty extends to money managers and ...
YTE Blog Viewing entries tagged risk I don’t like being wrong.
I especially don’t like being wrong when it involves money. When I see a sea of red on my screen, it makes me just the teensiest bit tetchy. I’ve gotten a whole lot better – it used to make me nauseous.
And when I’m wrong, I beat myself up. Horrible, bitchy alter-ego Je... Trading a small account can suck.
As you’ll already know if you’re a regular reader of my blog, I spent a good amount of time last year ‘testing’ a system I devised, and as luck would have it, it performed brilliantly. In percentage terms, it was pretty incredible. Unfortunately in real dollar... Last week in trading blog-world I stumbled across something truly frightening. I know that sounds very dramatic, and you may think there is nothing all that frightening about trading – it’s just trading after all – but let me explain.
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Commodity Trader
Fed meeting this week as well as any new developments out of Europe. My suggestion is to always look one-two weeks in advance for upcoming economic events when initiating trades. Just when it appears Crude was destined to move lower prices rever... This post we move back onto the subject of “Investment Risk” and specifically the different “Types of investment risk”. When it comes to active investment in the stock market, the concept of Risk Management is about controlling the amount of capital that may be lost in the event that the market or a stock turns against your open positions. This post we will carry on from where we left the last post on Risk Management and Money Management to take a look closer at general Investment Risk in the market. This material has been extracted from the SPA3 reference manual for your learning. There are numerous risk and money management measures that can be adopted to protect capital but rather than focus on the varying methods of risk and money management, this post will look at “why you should apply risk management and money management rules to your investments”.
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