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Come Out Of Your Shell (Part 3)

Monday, October 5th, 2009

I love to read, and find myself reading quite a bit about trading. It seems to me that most of the advice focuses on the Holy Grail type thinking, where you are sold the method. There are numerous fundamental and technical methods that claim a secret way of making money. Good advice shows you that [...]

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Come Out Of Your Shell (Part 2)

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

So if you can teach someone to trade, why is it that all the turtles didn’t succeed, let alone have returns similar to one another?  Michael Covel, author of   “The Complete Turtle Trader”, gives an explanation. “Some Turtles like Jerry Parker have chosen a path of less risk and less return. Some like Tom Shanks [...]

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Come Out Of Your Shell (Part 1)

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are – ANAIS NIN US (French-born) author    I was having a conversation with one of my clients yesterday on the subject of whether good traders are born or whether they can be taught. I brought to his attention that this was the [...]

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