The quote below is from an interview Stanley Kubrick gave to Playboy Magazine in 1968; as with all things involving decision-making, it is directly applicable to trading. “Among a great many other things that chess teaches you is to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good. It trains you…
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Trading is unique among professions in that you get to build your job description. You can trade any market over any time frame using any system. You can decide whether you want to make trading hard or whether you want to make it easy. Unfortunately, most people opt to complicate it. They do this through…
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There comes a moment in every trader’s journey when the market nudges your exit, and the mind begins its quiet rebellion. Your internal voice begins to negotiate, “Wait… maybe this isn’t real. Maybe it’s just a sentiment wobble, not a true break.” This negotiation is not unique to trading. It is the same inner dialogue…
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My social media feed occasionally throws up clips from a podcast called Diary of a CEO by Stephen Bartlett, who, from what I have seen, seems to spend most of his time staring wide-eyed at people making the most outrageous, nonsensical statements about health and science. And to bastardise the quote attributed to H.L.Mencken, nobody…
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In the latter part of the 20th century, a pioneering group of economists started shaking up their academic field. These “behavioural economists” used findings from experimental psychology and everyday activities to challenge the prevailing view that human beings were rational decision-makers – acting in predictable ways to maximise their wealth. One of those pioneers was…
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Below is a chart I consider the most dangerous in trading. I consider it to be the most dangerous because the price is doing precisely nothing other than ambling along between two lines. Having had an excellent year, gold is now stagnant and simply churning within a consolidation pattern. When prices start to do this,…
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Within the world of trading, you’d think rationality would be the minimum entry fee. After all, markets are built on numbers, probabilities, risk, and logic. And yet, time after time, traders cling to ideas that are not just wrong—but spectacularly wrong. On a quiet weekend not long ago, I found myself doom-scrolling through a financial…
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One of the more interesting experiences I have had over the decades is reviewing other traders’ plans. Many look ideal on paper with all conceivable contingencies covered. However, in reality, the execution is often tremendously flawed. In one instance, I reviewed a plan I considered flawless, but when I reviewed this trade’s results, the trade…
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JC Siliato thought he knew a lot about $money. He was a chartered accountant after all. But when it came to trading, he quickly realised there was more to learn than he ever imagined. “I thought I knew a lot about the markets. That was until I got involved with the Mentor Program, where I…
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