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Trading is easy

Petri Redelinghuys 22 August 2017Latest, TraderPetri

Trading is actually the easiest thing in the world. Think about it… you sit at your computer, read a bunch of stuff and talk smack with your buddies all day. Then something happens and you press the button on your mouse a whole bunch of times. You do the lighting fast ‘double-mouse-click-to-keyboard-enter-enter’ combination a few ...

How much to start trading?

Petri Redelinghuys 25 July 2017Latest, TraderPetri

From time to time people ask me how much money they need to start trading full time. The follow up question is what kind of return full time traders make on a monthly or annual basis. These are really difficult questions to answer because there are just so many variables. The amount of money you ...

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Loss aversion

Petri Redelinghuys 11 July 2017Latest, TraderPetri

When I started writing this blog for Just One Lap, I made a promise to myself and the readers to always be honest about the things that I write about. Keeping true to that promise, and probably more importantly - being honest with myself - I need to acknowledge that I find myself falling into ...

Deliberate practice

Petri Redelinghuys 27 June 2017Latest, TraderPetri

Trading is a skill-set. It is a set of skills that you spend a lot of time practicing. When these skills are mastered, you are able to take money from the market at will. Trading is probably also one of the most difficult skill-sets to learn and master. The reason for this, I think is ...

A traders journal

Petri Redelinghuys 16 May 2017Latest, TraderPetri

One of the very first things that we are taught when we start trading, is to keep a journal of our trades. The reasoning is simple enough: keep a record of the trades you took, why you took them, their outcome and whatever you may have learned from the trade. Keeping this record allows us ...

Consistency is key

Petri Redelinghuys 2 May 2017Latest, TraderPetri

Consistency is key. Many people look at successful traders and think that they make large amounts of money in very short periods of time. Frankly put, this is a fallacy. Successful traders tend to make a lot of small gains on a very consistent basis. Sure they have the odd day that they shoot the ...

Monster losses, what went wrong?

Petri Redelinghuys 21 March 2017Latest, TraderPetri

Well, I got a little too big for my own boots over the last week or so. Being back in a day trading seat has been truly epic and very exciting for me, although I had almost forgotten how difficult it was. I started off with basically two weeks of being green every day. The ...

Momentum portfolio update and new stocks Feb17

Video: Momentum stock selection Feb17

Simon Brown 28 February 2017Learn Trading, Portfolio update, Webinar and Video

This will video reviews the performance for the portfolio from 1 March 2016 to close 28 February 2017, changes and comments on NFEMOM. It also includes the selection of the stocks for the new 1 March 2017 portfolio as below. Top40 best 5 AGL, TBS, IMP, BVT, NED MidCap best 5 KIO, ASR, BAW, NHM, ...

What’s your trading style?

Petri Redelinghuys 6 December 2016Latest, TraderPetri

Imagine you are a sprinter. Imagine that you are really good at 100m sprints and have a real talent for it. Imagine that you have been training as a sprinter for a couple of years. Now, imagine that on a whim you decided to enter yourself into a marathon – you didn’t train for it. ...

Knowing right from wrong

Petri Redelinghuys 22 November 2016Latest, TraderPetri

Every so often I have to confess a mistake that I have made; and I rather like doing so because standing up and telling everyone that I bombed out on the Rand, or didn’t stick to a stop loss on some or other stock, helps keep me in check and ensures that I stick to ...