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Trading Psychology

If You’re Short Amazon (AMZN), Raise Your Hand

shorting stock, day trading, day trading strategies, against the market trend

If you’re short Amazon (AMZN), raise your hand and Tommy will come over and hit you on the head with a tack hammer.
There was no end to the stream of people getting killed trying to short this stock.  I’ll admit, this was one of the stocks that I talked about day trading yesterday. I tried to short it [...]

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Groundhog Day Trading

day trading blog, day trading strategies, day trading mistakes

Day Trading Mistakes Happen.  Get Over Them and Move On
Have you ever seen the movie Groundhog Day?  It stars Bill Murray as a disgruntled weatherman who’s pissed about his assignment to cover the events surrounding Groundhog Day in Punxsutawney.  Due to a blizzard after the events he is forced to spend the night in this [...]

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Stop Micromanaging Your Trades

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What do you do once you’ve entered a trade? Do you already know where you’ll exit, be it a win or a loss, or do you just meander along until you feel like exiting? Or, even worse, do you sit there and agonize over every single move in your stock; exiting too early or too [...]

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