Recent content by Vadym Graifer

Have you ever heard something like: ‘The market is a battlefield, be ready to fight with all you've got’, or ‘The market is a war’, or a variation of this theme? I bet you have, it's a fairly common theme. Enemies may change, but the theme stays the same. The market maker is an enemy one day...

With everything said and written on the subject of stops, it should be given that everyone is conditioned to keep them religiously even before they start trading. No matter what source a newer trader turns to, utter importance of stops will be underlined and emphasized up to the degree that...

Numerous discussions of paper trading, and its value as a learning tool, usually see participants divided into two camps. One claims total uselessness of paper trading, another vows never to start without it. The scoffing camp points out the obvious limitations of paper trading: It doesn't...