Kunal Desai 
“How did you hold that winner for so long?” “How did you hold through that big move against your position?” “Why did you take so much size?” Conviction is what allows you to have big, home-run trades that make your whole trading year. It keeps in winning trades even when things look uncertain. This is …
Read moreTrading Conviction: The Missing Ingredient in Your Trading
Every asset is in a period of consolidation or trending. Market cycles apply to stocks, cryptocurrencies, futures, and any other market. Mastering market cycles will allow you to understand the big picture of any asset, and give you an edge over most traders who trade solely on emotion and hype. As momentum traders, we want …
Clench the mouse when you enter a position? Cannot leave the computer to go to the bathroom when you’re in a trade? Watch every tick and sweat through 3 shirts a session? If you do any of these, you are trading with too much size. Trading with too much size not only makes trading way …
Read moreThe Art of Position Sizing: Read This Before Your Next Trade
One of the many questions I get from my students is “When can I trade with real money?”. It’s on every trader’s mind as soon as they start learning about the stock market. Trading is not much different than any other high-paying profession. Education and practice precede the big paydays. A surgeon doesn’t start cutting …
You know you should’ve cut the loss there. But you froze, told yourself it would reverse, and it kept dumping. You said last week this would be the last time this would happen. But here you are, staring at another big trading loss. You know WHAT you’re doing wrong, but you don’t know how to …
Most traders will be setting monetary trading goals for 2021. To make $100,000. To make $200 a day. To become a millionaire. All those goals are useless without process-based goals. Monetary goals fail to create the framework and routines needed to achieve them. Your process creates the PNL. The trading goals below are all processed-based. …