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“When a beginner wins he feels brilliant and invincible Then he takes wild risk and loses everything.”
― Trading for a Living: Psychology, Trading Tactics, Money Management
― Trading for a Living: Psychology, Trading Tactics, Money Management
“Markets are actually set up so that most traders must lose money”
― Trading for a Living: Psychology, Trading Tactics, Money Management
― Trading for a Living: Psychology, Trading Tactics, Money Management
“Markets need a fresh supply of losers just as builders of the ancient pyramids needed a fresh supply of slaves. Losers bring money into the markets, which is necessary for the prosperity of the trading industry.”
― The New Trading for a Living: Psychology, Discipline, Trading Tools and Systems, Risk Control, Trade Management
― The New Trading for a Living: Psychology, Discipline, Trading Tools and Systems, Risk Control, Trade Management
“Being simply “better than average” is not good enough. You have to be head and shoulders above the crowd to win a minus-sum game.”
― The New Trading for a Living: Psychology, Discipline, Trading Tools and Systems, Risk Control, Trade Management
― The New Trading for a Living: Psychology, Discipline, Trading Tools and Systems, Risk Control, Trade Management
“An astute trader aims to enter the market during quiet times and take profits during wild times.”
― The New Trading for a Living: Psychology, Discipline, Trading Tools and Systems, Risk Control, Trade Management
― The New Trading for a Living: Psychology, Discipline, Trading Tools and Systems, Risk Control, Trade Management
“The answer is to draw a line between a businessman's risk and a loss. As traders, we always take businessman's risks, but we may never take a loss greater than this predetermined risk.”
― The New Trading for a Living: Psychology, Discipline, Trading Tools and Systems, Risk Control, Trade Management
― The New Trading for a Living: Psychology, Discipline, Trading Tools and Systems, Risk Control, Trade Management
“So far, the only people who've made money from trading systems are their sellers.”
― The New Trading for a Living: Psychology, Discipline, Trading Tools and Systems, Risk Control, Trade Management
― The New Trading for a Living: Psychology, Discipline, Trading Tools and Systems, Risk Control, Trade Management
“To help ensure success, practice defensive money management. A good trader watches his capital as carefully as a professional scuba diver watches his air supply.”
― The New Trading for a Living: Psychology, Discipline, Trading Tools and Systems, Risk Control, Trade Management
― The New Trading for a Living: Psychology, Discipline, Trading Tools and Systems, Risk Control, Trade Management
“It is hard enough to know what the market is going to do; if you don't know what you are going to do, the game is lost.”
― The New Trading for a Living: Psychology, Discipline, Trading Tools and Systems, Risk Control, Trade Management
― The New Trading for a Living: Psychology, Discipline, Trading Tools and Systems, Risk Control, Trade Management
“People trade for many reasons—some rational and many irrational. Trading offers an opportunity to make a lot of money in a hurry. Money symbolizes freedom to many people, even though they often don't know what to do with it.”
― The New Trading for a Living: Psychology, Discipline, Trading Tools and Systems, Risk Control, Trade Management
― The New Trading for a Living: Psychology, Discipline, Trading Tools and Systems, Risk Control, Trade Management
“To win in the markets, we need to master three essential components of trading: sound psychology, a logical trading system, and an effective risk management plan.”
― The New Trading for a Living: Psychology, Discipline, Trading Tools and Systems, Risk Control, Trade Management
― The New Trading for a Living: Psychology, Discipline, Trading Tools and Systems, Risk Control, Trade Management
“Why do most traders lose and wash out of the markets? Emotional and mindless trading are big reasons, but there is another. Markets are actually set up so that most traders must lose money. The trading industry slowly kills traders with commissions and slippage.”
― The New Trading for a Living: Psychology, Discipline, Trading Tools and Systems, Risk Control, Trade Management
― The New Trading for a Living: Psychology, Discipline, Trading Tools and Systems, Risk Control, Trade Management
“There are good trading systems out there, but they have to be monitored and adjusted using individual judgment. You have to stay on the ball—you cannot abdicate responsibility for your success to a mechanical system.”
― The New Trading for a Living: Psychology, Discipline, Trading Tools and Systems, Risk Control, Trade Management
― The New Trading for a Living: Psychology, Discipline, Trading Tools and Systems, Risk Control, Trade Management
“The New Sell & Sell Short: How to Take Profits, Cut Losses, and Benefit from Price Declines (John Wiley & Sons, 2011).”
― The New Trading for a Living: Psychology, Discipline, Trading Tools and Systems, Risk Control, Trade Management
― The New Trading for a Living: Psychology, Discipline, Trading Tools and Systems, Risk Control, Trade Management
“A loser's true problem is not account size but overtrading and sloppy money management. He takes risks that are too big for his account size, however small or big. No matter how good his system may be, a streak of bad trades is sure to put him out of business.”
― The New Trading for a Living: Psychology, Discipline, Trading Tools and Systems, Risk Control, Trade Management
― The New Trading for a Living: Psychology, Discipline, Trading Tools and Systems, Risk Control, Trade Management
“The public wants gurus, and new gurus will come. As an intelligent trader, you must realize that in the long run, no guru is going to make you rich. You have to work on that yourself.”
― The New Trading for a Living: Psychology, Discipline, Trading Tools and Systems, Risk Control, Trade Management
― The New Trading for a Living: Psychology, Discipline, Trading Tools and Systems, Risk Control, Trade Management
“The mental baggage from childhood can prevent you from succeeding in the markets. You have to identify your weaknesses and work to change. Keep a trading diary—write down your reasons for entering and exiting every trade. Look for repetitive patterns of success and failure.”
― The New Trading for a Living: Psychology, Discipline, Trading Tools and Systems, Risk Control, Trade Management
― The New Trading for a Living: Psychology, Discipline, Trading Tools and Systems, Risk Control, Trade Management
“Use limit orders almost exclusively—except when placing stops. Be careful on what tools you spend money: there are no magic solutions. Success cannot be bought, only earned.”
― The New Trading for a Living: Psychology, Discipline, Trading Tools and Systems, Risk Control, Trade Management
― The New Trading for a Living: Psychology, Discipline, Trading Tools and Systems, Risk Control, Trade Management
“Professionals expect prices to fluctuate most of the time, without going anywhere far. They wait until an upside breakout stops reaching new highs or a downside breakout stops making new lows. Then they pounce—fade the breakout (trade against it) and place a protective stop near the latest extreme point. It's a tight stop, and their monetary risk is low, with a big profit potential from prices returning towards the middle of the congestion zone.”
― The New Trading for a Living: Psychology, Discipline, Trading Tools and Systems, Risk Control, Trade Management
― The New Trading for a Living: Psychology, Discipline, Trading Tools and Systems, Risk Control, Trade Management
“People deceive and play games with themselves. Lying to others is bad, but lying to yourself is hopeless.”
― The New Trading for a Living: Psychology, Discipline, Trading Tools and Systems, Risk Control, Trade Management
― The New Trading for a Living: Psychology, Discipline, Trading Tools and Systems, Risk Control, Trade Management
“Comience a llevar un diario: un registro de todas sus operaciones, con las razones para entrar y salir de éstas. Busque patrones repetitivos de éxito y de fracaso. Aquellos que no pueden recordar el pasado están condenados a repetirlo. El”
― El nuevo vivir del trading
― El nuevo vivir del trading
“Los traders compran en los soportes y venden en las resistencias, haciendo que la eficacia del soporte y de la resistencia sea una profecía que se cumple a sí misma.”
― El nuevo vivir del trading
― El nuevo vivir del trading
“El máximo de cada barra marca el máximo poder de los alcistas durante esa barra. El mínimo de cada barra marca el máximo poder de los bajistas durante esa barra. El deslizamiento tiende a ser menor cuando se entra o sale de posiciones si las barras son cortas. El precio de apertura de la barra diaria tiende a reflejar la opinión de los principiantes sobre el valor. Leen los periódicos matinales, descubren qué ocurrió el día anterior, quizá le pidan permiso a su esposa para comprar o vender, y dan sus órdenes antes de ir al trabajo. Los principiantes son especialmente activos a primera hora del día y a principios de semana. Algunos traders que han investigado sobre la relación entre precios de apertura y de cierre han concluido que los precios de apertura se dan cerca del máximo o del mínimo de la barra diaria con más frecuencia. Las compras y ventas de los principiantes a primeras horas del día crean un extremo emocional desde el cual los precios tienden a recular durante el resto del día. En los mercados alcistas, los precios suelen marcar su mínimo semanal en lunes o martes, cuando los principiantes retiran beneficios de la semana anterior, para repuntar hasta un nuevo máximo en jueves o viernes. En los mercados a la baja, el máximo semanal suele darse en lunes o martes, con nuevos mínimos hacia final de semana. El precio de cierre de las barras diarias y semanales tiende a reflejar las acciones de los traders profesionales. Observan los mercados durante el día, reaccionan ante los cambios y tienden a dominar la última hora de negociación. Muchos retiran beneficios a esa hora para evitar traspasar operaciones de un día al siguiente. Los profesionales, como grupo, por lo general operan contra los principiantes. Tienden a comprar con aperturas más bajas, vender al descubierto aperturas más altas, y a liquidar sus posiciones a medida que avanza el día. Los traders deben prestar atención a la relación entre”
― El nuevo vivir del trading
― El nuevo vivir del trading
“Los mercados han cambiado muchísimo desde los días de Edwards y Magee. En la década de 1940, el volumen de un valor activo en la Bolsa de Nueva York era de sólo unos centenares de acciones, mientras que ahora se mide en millones. El equilibro de poder en el mercado de valores se ha inclinado del lado de los alcistas. Los primeros chartistas dejaron escrito que las cimas de los mercados eran puntiagudas y rápidas, mientras que los valles tardaban mucho en formarse. Eso fue cierto es su época de deflaciones, pero desde la década de 1950 ha imperado lo contrario. Hoy en día, los valles tienden a formarse rápidamente, mientras que las cimas tardan más tiempo.”
― El nuevo vivir del trading
― El nuevo vivir del trading
“Airlines pay high salaries to pilots despite having autopilots. They do it because humans can handle unforeseen events. When a roof blows off an airliner over the Pacific or when a passenger jet loses both engines to a flock of geese over Manhattan, only a human can handle such crises. These emergencies have been reported in the press, and in each of them, experienced pilots managed to land their airliners by improvising solutions. No autopilot can do that. Betting your money on an automatic system is like betting your life on an autopilot. The first unexpected event will make your account crash and burn.”
― The New Trading for a Living: Psychology, Discipline, Trading Tools and Systems, Risk Control, Trade Management
― The New Trading for a Living: Psychology, Discipline, Trading Tools and Systems, Risk Control, Trade Management
“Los patrones gráficos reflejan la suma de las compras y las ventas, avidez y temor entre inversores y traders. Muchas gráficas en este libro son diarias, por lo que cada barra representa una sesión de negociación, aunque las reglas para entender las gráficas semanales, diarias e intradía presentan una similitud remarcable. Recuerde este principio clave: cada precio es un consenso de valor momentáneo entre todos los participantes del mercado expresado en acción. Basándonos en él, cada barra de precio nos ofrece diversos datos acerca del tira y afloja entre alcistas y bajistas (figura 17.1). FIGURA 17.1 TSLA diario (Gráfico de StockCharts.com). El significado de los gráficos de barras Los precios de apertura son fijados por los principiantes, cuyas órdenes se acumulan durante la noche y alcanzan el mercado por la mañana. Los precios de cierre son fijados, en su mayoría, por los profesionales del mercado, que operan durante el día. Se puede observar el reflejo del conflicto entre ambos grupos en la frecuencia con la que los precios de apertura y cierre se dan en los extremos opuestos de las barras de precio.”
― El nuevo vivir del trading
― El nuevo vivir del trading
“An intelligent businessman takes only risks that will not put him out of business, even if he makes several mistakes in a row.”
― The New Trading for a Living: Psychology, Discipline, Trading Tools and Systems, Risk Control, Trade Management
― The New Trading for a Living: Psychology, Discipline, Trading Tools and Systems, Risk Control, Trade Management
“las masas de traders han cambiado de idea, mientras que los puntos extremos sólo reflejan el pánico de los traders más débiles.”
― El nuevo vivir del trading
― El nuevo vivir del trading
“ganar dinero. Su objetivo es practicar bien el trading.”
― El nuevo vivir del trading
― El nuevo vivir del trading
“¿Cómo identificamos las tendencias? No lo hacemos a través de líneas de tendencia. Mis herramientas favoritas son las medias móviles exponenciales, que revisaremos en la siguiente sección. Las líneas de tendencia son muy subjetivas –están entre las herramientas más engañosas–. La identificación de tendencias es un campo en que el análisis por ordenador está a años luz por delante del análisis gráfico clásico.”
― El nuevo vivir del trading
― El nuevo vivir del trading





