Van Tharp: Trading Mistakes

Reason for putting this video here - thou shalt cut your losses.

One of the better video online explaining how our financial system works. Definitely better than any nonsense from classic economic theories. You can find the draft paper from http://www.economicprinciples.org/ Note: ...

A great talk on algos and how they are shaping the financial markets in many ways surprising to most people. The talk was done back in July ...

Most people who are not interested in trading (or day trading) think of it as some kind of gambling. Many who work in the financial industry worship traders as some ...

I wrote in my blog two weeks ago about trading income which somehow generated quite a number of emails asking for clarifications of what I mean. So here it is ...

I am asked many times for information about the performance of individual retail traders. It is a difficult question to answer because without actual data it is not possible to ...

Many beginner traders asked for shortcuts to get them to profitability. One very interesting common theme among them is the amount of time one can save from the learning process. ...

A good presentation on algos and their impacts on the markets we trade. This presentation reminds me of a pattern I called VWAP Run that I take ...

It is about business strategies for underdog, for which it carries substance for beginner traders who want to become successful in trading one day because retail traders are the underdogs ...

In the third part of the series, I have covered the psychological makeup necessary to compete against the other traders in the extremely competitive field of day trading. Those foundations ...