Recent content by dfxdfx

running before walking standard money sizing rules usually suggest that you should risk much MORE than a beginner should. by beginner I mean anybody trading less than 1 solid year. scale it up, and often scaling it up is a challenge. that's what got me this week: trying to scale up and it...

the lessons learned will be useful somewhere else in life. maybe not again in trading. because if you think it sucks now, if you went and did it again .... that would really hurt. just don't accept that you are "a loser", because the nature of trading is very brutal: you can make 19 correct...

stocks are not a zero sum game agreed: the stock market is not a zero sum game, in that it does create wealth. in fact that is the big concern when we all realize that the market market created too much wealth (is over valued) compared with the crap on the ground (buildings, services...