We know we cannot change the past - what's done is done. We also know that we don't know what will happen in the future - it doesn...

My historical win rate is about 30%, so with the majority of my trades generating losses, I have learnt to accept losing money along the way...

If you subscribe to the Mark Douglas theory that in the markets anything can happen, at any time, then you will know and accept the potentia...

A couple of weekends back, while on the train to London, I posted this up on Twitter: The traders I was going to meet were Craig and...

So, let 's not beat around the bush. This morning I suffered my largest loss on a single trade since the summer of 2013. As of yesterday...

Good traders continually worry about trying to minimise any potential downside. By the same token, they try to avoid placing any restriction...

So that's 2016 in the book, and a losing year at that. This is my first losing year since 2011. The fact that I have lost less than five...

Some people have unrealistic expectations when it comes to trend following - and trading in general, for that matter.  I remember a trader...

In recent months, one of the most popular posts on the blog has been ' Trend following is dead - apparently... ' I wrote this back i...

Have you ever considered how you could come across two or more setups that are seemingly identical, and yet one moves in one particular dire...

Quite often I meet or correspond with people who seem to think that they can pull a certain amount out of the market on a regular basis. Thi...

Someone who decides to trade using a trend following approach should expect to achieve a win rate between 30% - 40% across a large sample...

A while back, I talked about a long-time friend of mine and his battle against repeatedly losing all his hard earned gains in his own tradin...

For a trend follower, the lack of decent trends over the last couple of years or so in the stock markets was perhaps expected - 2008 on the ...

The big news this week was the bloody nose that Bill Ackman and his Pershing Square fund received regarding their investment in Valeant Phar...

There are some inexperienced traders out there who seem to have a strange attitude towards the use of stops. A stop should be based on a ...

Studies have been carried out proving that, even with a completely random entry, traders can make money by adhering to good risk control and...

Note: this post originally appeared in July 2014, and has been updated to reflect performance since then. 1R is the amount you risk on eac...

If you think you can adopt a trend following approach, and then guarantee that you can pull X% out of the market each month/quarter/year, th...

These days I am a voracious reader, not so much of books directly related to trading, but to those dealing with the mind, attitudes or psych...