Trader Mike

Happy New Year! More links filtered from my del.icio.us archive

Money Managment: The Cornerstone of Success
Checkup from the Neck Up? — Dr. Sen lists some great questions traders should ask themselves constantly
Position Size is Everything
To Trade or Not to Trade? The Real Question Is How Much?
Don’t Deny Reality — If you want to be a successful trader, you must make sure you do not deny reality in any phase of your trading
Trading Psychology — “The Trader’s Mindset”
Improving Your Trading Performance: The Single Most Important Step You Can Take by Brett Steenbarger
Turning Standard Deviation Bands into an Overbought/Oversold Indicator
Identifying Budding Trends with Bollinger Bands
Globetrader: Stop Theories — “The most difficult …

More links filtered from my del.icio.us archive

Investopedia’s Active Trading Article Archive
What a Trader Really Needs to Be Successful
The Importance of Volume
Articles and Reprints on Trading — nice collection of articles
Implementing Money Management Techniques
The Top 10 Mistakes Traders Make and How To Avoid Them by Jim Wyckoff
Teresa Lo on Timeframes
Trader-X.’s Thoughts on Timeframes
Behavioural Finance Articles
Japanese Candlestick Charting Basics: Spotting Early Reversals

Also see Massive Link Dumps Volume 1, Volume 2 & Volume 3

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Trading as a Business
Ed Seykota on Risk Management
Alan Farley’s Trading Resolutions for 2006 — yeah, I know it’s a year old but it’s still appropriate
The Engulfing Candlestick Pattern by Dane Halling
A Self-Help Crash Course for Traders by Brett Steenbarger
Trader-X: Finding the right set-up(s)
Divergences by Martin Pring
You Trade Like a Girl — A little something for the new female traders / bloggers (like The Trading Goddess, Victoria, Henrietta and Michelle) to brag about.
The 3 Phases of Trading Business Maturity
Trader Development Links — Brett Steenbarger’s list of resources on the Web specifically devoted to helping traders develop expertise.

Also see Massive Link …

As I continue to dig through the crates…

The Psychology of Profit Taking Exits by D.R. Barton

Profit Targets vs. Trailing Stops – Another Luminary Weighs In by D.R. Barton

Focus on Exits — Don’t say I never gave you anything!

Handling the Stresses of Trading

How to Identify - and Trade - Range Contraction by Oswald S. Castillo

Day Trading: The Hardest Game in Town by Edward Allen Toppel (free sub required)

Making Trading Journals Work for You by the good Dr. Brett

My Thoughts on Trading Journals

Winners Simply Do What Losers Won’t Do — “Adopting the belief that “winners” …

This is the first in a series of posts I’m going to do in an effort to get some of my favorite links archived in my blog. I’ll be digging through my links archive in delicious and some of my own old posts and pulling out some of my favorites.

As I started this process today I was surprised at how the main stream media (let’s call them non-bloggers) just don’t get it with respect to the internet. So many of the old links were invalid (link rot) because the host sites either expired the articles or moved them (changed the URLs). They seem to have no clue about the importance of …