Learn To Trade Stocks and Options

ClayTrader Mail: How Greed Infects Big Goals

I assume that I'm stating the obvious when I say that having goals, particularly big/noble goals, is a great attribute to have. When it comes to trading emotions though, especially greed, goals can be infected and distorted in ways that will severely hinder your ability to progress and improve as a trader. As you'll see in this trader's plan, they have an epic goal, but due to greed, they being to wander into territories that are going to make their goal extra hard to accomplish.

How I Escaped a Trading Disaster

Whether you are a new traders, or someone who has been trading the markets for years, seeing reminders on 'why' discipline is so important is never a bad thing. In this video I take a look at some of my actual trading I did, and then play the "what if" game in regards to what actually happened after my live trade video stopped recording. The next time I feel like breaking the rules to my trade plan or changing strategies within the middle of a trade, I am going to repeat T-E-V-A.

The Mind Trick Worked! My March Trading Results.

This will mean much more to you if you first watch the video I did in February about my frustrating month. You can watch this video in the link below. How did the following month's results turn out after applying the jedi mind trick that I talked about? Although a bit more would have been nice, I was very happy with the month's results given it was all done part-time and in roughly 90 minutes each morning.

My February Trading Results - Frustrating! - https://claytrader.com/blog/february-trading-results-frustrating/

ClayTrader Mail: A Noble, but DUMB Attitude

The world of the stock market and trading it as swing traders or day traders can be very tricky. One of the main reasons for this is the counter-intuitive psychology that comes along with it. In most areas of life, the attitude that this trader has is without question considered noble and worthwhile; however, as you will see... when it comes to the stock market, it can lead to a whole lot of account hurt.

Dumb Inspiration - https://claytrader.com/videos/stock-trading-quick-tip-dumb-inspiration/

I Love this Trading Analogy

I wish I could take credit for this analogy regarding trading in the markets, but I can not. Thanks for a member of the community, they overheard this conversation about skiing and then passed it along to me as it truly does a PERFECT job of explaining why certain concepts in trading must be learned first, before other seemingly more obvious concepts. Even if you are someone who has lots of experience trading, I think this analogy can benefit you as a "friendly reminder".

A Member Trades My Account. How'd It Go?

One of the member's from our community, who I've become good friends with, flew to Michigan to hang out for the weekend which included Friday. Give this person has been through all my training courses and has a great track record of "knowing what they're doing", I gave them the reigns of my trading account. Doing this brought about an unexpected, but very important observation dealing with trading strategies and personal risk tolerance levels.

Podcast - https://claytrader.com/podcast/episode009/ and https://claytrader.com/podcast/episode041/

64 Trading Days - Only 2 Losing Days: Possible? - https://claytrader.com/blog/64-trading-days-2-losing-days-possible/

ClayTrader Mail: Publicly Contradicting Yourself. Not Good!

Time and time again I've preached and shown examples of just how sneaky our human mind can be due to emotions. In this exchange, a "trader" proclaims one thing publicly and then immediately contradicts himself. He obviously is not aware of this, or else he wouldn't be doing it in public, but again, this goes to show how if we are not aware of our emotions, they can cause us to do some silly things... in a bad way.

Looking at Our Chat Room in Detail. How Does It Work?

Many people ask me how our chat room community works and flows, so I wanted to answer that question with a real life example of an alert I made and how everything unfolded after the stock alert. I document it all so that you know there were no funny games going on and that you hopefully see just how powerful being a part of a trading community can be.

Trading a Chat Room Alert - https://claytrader.com/videos/trading-a-chat-room-alert/

Trading Chat Rooms are Healthy - https://claytrader.com/videos/trading-chat-rooms-are-healthy/

Stock Trading: Predicting vs. Reacting?

When it comes to trading the markets, whether it is stocks, options, futures or Forex, one of the hotly contested topics is should you trade with a strategy that predicts, or reacts? Personally, I'm a big believe in reacting and being late to the party. I believe I give some very plausible logic in this video.

ClayTrader Mail: Open Ended Questions Tell Lots

I get it, having an extra set of eyes look over what you're doing as a trader can be reassuring and helpful. In fact, there is nothing wrong with asking someone else their opinions or thoughts.... however, that is 100% a matter of context. In most situations, the questions being asked are very open ended, and with that being the case reveal quite a bit about the person trading and "where-they-stand" as a trader themselves.