Trading rules from Jack Schwager

Jack Schwager is the author of the well-known Western bestsellers "Market Wizards" and "New Market Wizards", in which he summarized the experience of the best traders and the most successful investors. Schwager's first book, published in Russian, became an 800-page tome "Technical Analysis. Full course ", published last year by the publishing house "Alpina Publisher". In his book, Schwager also included the quintessence of market wisdom - tips for traders. With the kind permission of Alpina Publisher, we publish the tips in a slightly abbreviated magazine version. Start trading 1. Differentiate between important long-term position trades and short-term trades. Average risk for short-term transactions (implied by the number of contracts in the position and the exit point) should be much less. Besides, the speculator should focus on trading long-term positions, as they are usually significantly more important to the success of the trade. Error, performed by many traders, is, that they are so immersed in trying to catch short-term market swings (creating tons of commissions and slippage), what major price movements are missing.

The market starts to come alive

Today was a good day to make money in the market. There were a lot of good promotions and opportunities. OPG : I bought a finance basketball at the opening, but they collapsed, although the market opened positive. A little lost. Intraday : VFC : V.F. Corporation Sector: Consumer Cyclical > Industry: Apparel / Accessories An absolutely stupid idea came up, short VFC by highs, in a growing market, the caught moose proved the absurdity of my idea. VAT : Autoliv Inc.

Golden words about the exchange

According to Buffett, long-term investors are needed for the overall health of financial markets, looking for long-term prospects and making appropriate investments. “The Warren Buffett Way”, Robert G. Hagstrom Jr.All professional players (alone – before, other – later, and still others – regularly) are experiencing total bankruptcy. The reason is – their ability to voluntarily put every last penny on the line, even if the odds of winning are dubious. “Stock speculator universities”, Viktor Niederhoffer The game of professional investing is unbearably boring and overly demanding for everyone, who is completely devoid of player instinct. Same, who is endowed with this instinct, forced to pay the appropriate price for their addiction. “Exchange – game for money”, Adam Smith

Warren Buffett's aphorisms

I always knew, that I will be rich, did not doubt it for a minute. Rule one: never lose money. Second rule: never forget rule one. Buy only that, what will you be glad to have, if the market closes for ten years. Never invest in a business, in which you don't understand anything. There are many different things, which I do not understand. But this is not a reason, to stay up at night. It just means, that the next day I will try myself in another business. This is what, what every investor should follow.

Fool's Day

OPG : The market opened in the red and decided to sell RITZ on OPG. They didn't really go, but I cut a little money. Intraday : Thought the market 5 the day will stand and therefore decided to watch on the sidelines, in the end did not trade anything. MOC : Everything was like yesterday, left buy , but everything started to fail. Sold Ritz and Finance, in front of the only pharmacy, on which I closed the minus basketball, after which everything went down, classic :) Results: Day finished flat, could make money. My discipline and concentration on trading began to limp. You need to pull yourself together and strictly follow your rules., very

SEC throws a stone at the Bears | uptick rule

Today, the old uptick rule is being introduced., I didn’t find him and therefore I don’t know for sure how to trade with him now. I almost always use short markets, and now they will turn into limit owners, I feel it will be fun, especially on MOS.

Dictionary of trader and investor. 100+ terms

The Trader's Financial Dictionary contains basic exchange terms for beginners. Most relevant financial “slang”. Market On Close (MOC) order is an order, which can be sent during the day during the trading session, but will be executed in the last trade at close. Throughout the trading day, exchanges accumulate MOC orders and bring them together in the last trade (print) trading day. After-hours trading – execution of transactions with securities after the close of the exchange session. Previously, this type of trade using special computer systems was used by, mainly, institutional traders. Many online brokers today offer access to “last day trading” a wide range of investors. Ask (asked price) – Selling price – seller's asking price, ie. the lowest price, by which he is ready to sell. At-the-opening order – order to the broker to conclude a deal at the best price at the opening of the exchange (at the beginning of the morning session). ATS (Alternative Trading Systems) – alternative trading systems are the fastest growing e-commerce medium. They provide their members-subscribers with access to information and trading on various platforms through special software.. Compared to online brokers, PBX operation is faster and more reliable in that, regarding the processing and execution of orders. In the SEC rules, the term ATS is defined as “any organization, association, face, group of persons or system, That: …

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March is over

Today was the last trading day for this month., which I successfully closed in plus. Unfortunately, I didn’t trade today because I closed in the red on a dead market for the previous three days and lost about a third of my earnings for the month because of my persistence to conquer the market :) For the fourth trading day in a row, the market is standing still and there is practically nothing to trade. MOC were buy today, but everything collapsed and closed badly, thanks to the terminal lags, I didn’t get my basketball and stayed with the money. I will write the results of the month and its analysis at the weekend.. Now rest and prepare for April, which I should make my best month.

Millionaire for 2 weeks…

New York federal investigators arrest mysterious Wall Street virtuoso, writes the newspaper "New York Post". 44-summer Andrew Karlsin, having invested 800 Dollars, across 2 already had a portfolio for weeks, ranked in 350 million. It's incredible in this case that, what he claims, as if arrived from 2256 of the year. Karlsin finds himself in sight of Wall Street watchdogs, when did it in a row 126 high-risk transactions. Every time he found himself in a huge win. Strange investor makes a stunning confession during interrogation. According to him, he traveled back in time from the future, more than 200 years from our era. “The knowledge that, that your era saw the worst fall in the stock market in history, we have a widespread. Therefore each, armed with information on selected shares, can make a fortune on this. Temptation is hard to resist. I planned to look natural, however, he could not resist and was caught ", - he asserts.

Smart thoughts of successful traders

Here are the rules from various sources., thoughts, the views of real professionals. 1. Treat losses as tuition fees. 2. Never enter the market, if losses exceed the established limit. 3. It is very bad to miss a trading signal – big profits can be missed. Every trading signal must be used. There is protection against losses – stop order, but against a missed opportunity – No. 4. It is necessary to correctly and always place a trade stop order inside. 5. The trading system must always be developed and adapted for a specific personality. 6. Any trading system has a period of a series of losses. 7. Focus on the trading process, not on the result.

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