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Video: Mastering stop loss with Trader Petri
Mastering stop losses with Trader Petri One of the hardest pats of trading is the stop loss. They’re hard emotionally as we hate being wrong. They’re hard financially as we hate losing money. It’s also hard to know where to position them in order to limit downside while leaving space for a small retracement before ...
Video: Practical trading setups and rules
Petri Redelinghuys from Herenya Capital Advisors is a day trader as well as a CFD and ALSI futures trader and presents this JSE Power Hour. Petri goes going back to basics in this presentation focusing on practical trading. He will show us how to find trading setups and how to put together a set of …
Discretionary or system trading
Recently I had the opportunity to have another robust debate over a beer with ‘John who trades the ALSI’. I think I may have mentioned him before. In any case, as per usual the conversation was around trading and the different types of trading. And of course, which is better. I side with discretionary trading, ...
Video: Charting the future
Garth MacKenzie of Traders Corner presents this JSE Power Hour and has a look at how local and global markets have been preforming. He also makes some predictions for the Rand and Top40 as well as ten locally listed stocks that are looking strong right now. Download the PDF here. View JSE Power Hour series ...
Video: Trading when markets are at highs
People are often nervous when markets are trading at all-time highs. Locally, our market is tempting those levels with the occasional move to new highs. However, in the US we’re currently witnessing one of the longest and strongest rallies ever with almost daily new all-time highs. In this Power Hour session Mark Weetman of Unum ...
Video: Traders life: The money
Successful trading requires three key pillars to succeed. Firstly, a solid understand of the theory (knowing the products and markets, understanding and managing risk etc.). Secondly a viable and tested trading system that generates profits and thirdly the most important part – integrating the process into our desired life style. Then we can start living ...
Trading: focus required
Some time ago I started one of these blogs with a battle scene between a warrior and a dragon. Not only do I think that I should get back to that kind of creative writing, because hey… it’s fun, but I also want to rehash the point that I made. In the midst of battle ...
Emotional decision making
I have recently started working with a peak performance coach - a trading psychologist if you will - to improve my trading performance. It’s all a little experimental and scary, and to be honest, very uncomfortable at times. The premise from which we are working is that trading is at its core, just continuous decision ...
Video: Getting trading right
Trading is a lot about correcting our own human errors and understandable we tend focus on those errors and how to correct them. But what about what we are already doing right? The big and small things that make our edge and make a positive difference to our profit? In this JSE Power Hour Petri ...