Why The Right Trading Mindset Is Crucial For Long-Term Success
Many new traders tend to overlook the importance of having the right trading mindset when it comes to achieving long-term success. They often get caught up in the pursuit of quick profits, only to realize after years of inconsistent results and missed opportunities that a reliable and tested system is crucial for sustainable success in […]
You Shouldn’t Invest A Cent Without A Verified Statistical Edge…
In last week’s article, I explained why timing the market is a strategy that, if set up and executed correctly, has the greatest potential to get you long-term market-beating returns. And when I talked about the must-have elements for creating such a strategy, I mentioned the “Statistical Edge.” In fact, I said that without a […]
Why You Can (And Should) Time The Market… And How To Go About It
Don’t let the financial establishment convince you the only way to profit in the stock market is to stay invested all the time. (Bonus points if you are invested with them, of course.) The “proof” they base this statement on is bogus, as I’ll show you in a moment. But before I do that, let […]
4 Gut Busting Lessons I’ve Learnt From my 20+ Years in the Markets (Part 2)
This is my last post for 2013 and I want to thank everyone that has contributed their thoughts and experiences on the Gary Stone Journal. I hope that you have enjoyed my commentary and have been able to take away some of the lessons and principles that I have come to learn over the past […]
How far can the Dow Jones go? Part 2
Following on from my previous blog, in the discussion with my fellow golfing member I told him that the great majority of investors in Australia are NOT active in the share market at the moment. Retail investor activity in the stock market is at multi-decade lows and retail investor sentiment towards shares is at the […]
How far can the Dow Jones go?
Recently I was asked by a fellow member at my golf club what the next 10 years might hold in store for an investor with a 10-year investing horizon. While the round of golf progressed we discussed this big-picture question and his quizzing helped me express a view that I probably wouldn’t have come up […]
“Easy way to ride a hot market”
This week’s blog is a commentary on a recent AFR WEEKEND article that appeared under the Smart Money section entitled “Easy way to ride a hot market”. This same article can be read online under the title “How to make the most of the market’s upswing? . It is one of the better newspaper articles […]
Reading Tea Leaves – Follow up on those 2 charts
A month ago I looked at the hard right-hand edge of two charts in which a symmetrical triangle had occurred following a SPA3 entry signal, viz. INPH and ARWR. These are examples of real money trades that I entered in our publicly traded real money SPA3 NASDAQ Portfolio. The entries were triggered by SPA3 entry […]
Directional Trading
Once in a while I select a comment from the blog that I think all bloggers will gain benefit from. This week I have chosen a comment left by Don. Last time I looked SPA3 didn’t make any investments in falling markets thereby missing out on profit opportunity. Response to comment by Don: Let’s firstly […]
Loss trades are a Guarantee
One of the realities of trading and investing in the share market is that we WILL suffer losses. Not every trade we place will make a profit, and many will actually be losers. It is this fact that we have to come to grips with and be able to fully acknowledge and understand to be […]