This week I received the following testimonial from Stephen, who I have now known for a number of years and has been an active member wi...

The stoic philosopher Epictetus once said that  “We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.” In t...

On my last post, I talked about the recent big winning trade in Bitcoin on the long side from earlier this year,which generated a +21R prof...

A couple of my more popular posts from past years relate to Jack Nicklaus, where I listed a number of quotes from his extensive writings...

While my primary focus is stocks, I do keep an eye on other markets for potential trades - these include commodities like oil and gold, the ...

I've mentioned a few times this year, both here and on social media, that the current levels of volatility may seem quite high (certainl...

A lot of the people who were profitable in 2008 became unstuck the following year. They seemed to get in their head that, once the markets s...

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...

Warren Buffet once said “There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.” A good trend foll...

In trading, as in any walk of life, it takes plenty of experience to evolve from being unconsciously incompetent to unconsciously compete...

To me as a die-hard believer in trend following, I never see market bubbles and crashes. To me they are simply uptrends and downtrends w...

“I don't risk significant money in front of key reports, since that is gambling, not trading." - Paul Tudor Jones When you are...

By their very nature trend following systems or methods are relatively simple pieces of coding. Read about some of the most successful trend...

Below we have the current daily chart of the Dow. This is a classic example of a 'tale of two market states'. Up to the beginning o...

There is a school of thought amongst some traders which says you need to adapt and adjust your chosen method, in response to changes in the ...

Every so often someone contacts me to say they disagree with what I say and my beliefs, that some other successful trader they know of say...

Rather than talk about the recent market shenanigans, the chart of the Dow covering the last few months offer us a good chance to compare a ...

Last month I had the pleasure of catching up with a trader I have known for a few years now, and mentored for a while. We talked for a coup...

Back in the summer of 2013, I wrote this post about an aspiring trader called Tom (not his real name) who I first met in early 2012, and ga...