Today we are going to take a look at what other people have written about the financial markets. Below are the six most interesting articles we found about the world of trading and investing over the past month.
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- A great interview with Peter Brandt who is a professional trader with 29 years of trading experience shares some of his personal lessons he had to learn over almost three decades and also talks about some things which make trading successfully an often hard task for the average trader.
- An insightful article from Dr. Brett Steenbarger who is not only a trader himself but also a psychologist and a coach for professional traders about the reasons why we so often fail so trade our plans.
- Ben Carlson who is a CFA and a well-known investment blogger discusses the importance of intellectual honesty in the markets and why challenging your own ideas is a key factor for the learning process.
- An interesting portrait of Karen Finerman who is worth $100m, runs a $400m hedge fund, has two sets of twins and four nannies.
- Adam Grimes writes about the question: Do you want to be right or do you want to make money? As a trader, you have to be humble and not let your ego get in the way. At the same time, you need confidence in your skills. It’s not always easy to find the right balance.
- Ashraf Laidi who is a currency market expert and a frequent guest on the major financial news channels talks about, what he calls, the “Gold/SPX Ratio’s Boom-Bust Pattern” and explains the relationship between these two markets.
We provide the links above in order to help you with trading. However, please keep in mind that trading futures involves leverage which may cause substantial losses or gains. There is a substantial risk of loss in futures trading. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results.
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