How I Use Stop Losses
Stop Losses In Trading
Where I place stops
How to size positions based on stops
Dealing with losing trades
End of bar stops vs intra bar stops
Psychology of price action near stops
I cover a couple of trades that I got stopped out on recently
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How I Swing Trade FX Markets - Weekly Preview
My swing trading process and how I prepare for the upcoming week
Day Trading $RTY During Bull Quiet Market Regime
How I prep for day trading
Pre-trading warm ups
My routines
I expand a lot on how I came up with my system
And of course walk through this weeks trades
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Here's the thread on Twitter as I was trading it in almost real time
Not The Longest Bull Market In History
“This is the longest bull market in history!”
That’s just not the case
Let’s take a walk back in time….
This chart represents Present Day $SPX all the way back to 1872
This only represents about 150 years of US Markets history
From a headline perspective the longest bull market in history sounds tempting to use
There are some agreed upon norms for what we consider a bull market, bear market, recession, depression or crash
They are all fairly arbitrary
For example the 2018 meltdown that dropped 19.9% doesn’t count as a bear market, because it would’ve had to be down 20% for it to be an official bear market
Investopedia has this to say about what a bull market is…
There is no specific and universal metric used to identify a bull market. Nonetheless, perhaps the most common definition of a bull market is a situation in which stock prices rise by 20%, usually after a drop of 20%...
