Market Masters: Expanding Your Trading Horizons
by Mercenary Trader
Trading, in and of itself, is a life-altering task. It is not possible to trade well without having other parts of your life...
Market Masters: Poker-Trading Parallels, Positive Expectation, and Moving Beyond Certainty
by Mercenary Trader Warren Buffett once said: “I am a better investor because I am a businessman, and a better businessman because...
Options Strategies For A Broken Stock Trade
Sometimes bad things happen to good stocks. And when this happens, good stock trades can quickly become broken stock trades. Just like a rising...
Bonds 101: Understanding the Price-Yield-Value Relationship
The incessant noise around whether to taper or not to taper got me thinking that it may be a good idea to cover off...
Market Masters: Getting Past Investment ‘Regret’ and Counterfactual Thinking
By Darren Miller
Regret is an ugly word. Regret leads to remorse which manifests itself as we sit and stew about the action (or inaction)...
Basket Trading For Individual Investors
In this age of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), the idea of basket trading seems to be a foreign concept. After all, ETFs afford the...
Market Masters: Elliott Wave Insights on US Equities
By Walter Murphy
Last week’s action is in line with our expectations. The three prior intermediate corrections from (and including) the June 2012 low through...
Market Masters: Using Relative Strength During Market Corrections
During a market correction I focus almost exclusively on finding and studying the price action of individual stocks that are demonstrating relative strength versus...
Using a VIX Call Spread as a Downside Hedge
I would like to discuss today another way to hedge your equity portfolio against a major move lower, albeit perhaps indirectly. And we can...
Market Masters: Why Investors Should Keep A Trading Log
What I wish to discuss is a vital tool that I always require of any trader I mentor (and I have mentored many over...
