trading system Archives

Podcast: Becoming a trader

Simon Brown 2 March 2017JSE Direct, Latest

Becoming a Trader Simon Shares New tax year and I have already loaded another R33k into my tax-free account and will be buying as per our high risk model portfolio. The annual Buffett letter was published last weekend. Always good reading, I especially like his comments on buying assets with shares (and hence paying a ...

Video: Becoming a better trader

Simon Brown 11 November 2016Improve Trading, Power Hour, TraderPetri, Webinar and Video

Petri Redelinghuys believes that trading involves always learning: learning about yourself, trading, risk, discipline and markets. Last year he shared his journey of becoming a trader and he’s back this year to speak to us about how to become a better trader. Petri shares how to identify good and bad educational resources, the different trading ...

Rules save trading lives

Petri Redelinghuys 8 November 2016Latest, TraderPetri

Sometimes the market makes you feel an unusual amount of despair. It’s the little things that can get to you. Making a mistake can wipe out lots of profits that you spent weeks building. That event then influences you in a way that you don’t fully understand and it leads to a spiral of bad ...

Risk management and the rules involved

Petri Redelinghuys 27 September 2016Latest, TraderPetri

Risk management is probably the most important part of trading. I’m sure you’ve often heard that a trader can get half their trades wrong and still make money if they have adequate risk management rules in place. This is actually, believe it or not, very true. Trading is about keeping your losses small and riding ...

Video: A complete index trading system

Simon Brown 17 August 2016Improve Trading, Trading Masterclass, Webinar and Video

Trading indices is Simon’s preferred trading strategy and he’ll cover the different indices, margin requirements and also present a 7/21 moving average trading system that can be used across different time frames.

Video: A complete CFD share trading system

Simon Brown 20 July 2016Improve Trading, Trading Masterclass, Webinar and Video

With the Trading Boot Camp series completed we now move onto the actual process of trading and in this first video Just One Lap founder, Simon Brown, puts together a simple CFD share trading strategy for Top40 stocks using the IG platform. There are two videos, above is the initial presentation of the system and ...

Video: Risk management for traders (12/12)

Simon Brown 22 June 2016Boot Camp, Learn Trading, Webinar and Video

Without proper risk management a trader goes bust sooner or later and likely it will be sooner. This presentation covers Stop loss (where, how, why); Position sizing; The 2% risk rule; The 6% portfolio rule; Managing fear and; Trailing vs. fixed stop loss

Momentum portfolio update end May16

Simon Brown 1 June 2016Latest, Learn Trading, Portfolio update

Momentum Portfolio update Momentum portfolio update end May16 It’s the end of the first quarter* for the 2016/7 Just One Lap Momentum portfolio and here’s our update for the quarter. Find the portfolio details, methodology and previous returns here. The screen shot of the portfolio at the close of 31 May 2016 is as below. ...

Video: Managing and trading the news (8/12)

Simon Brown 17 February 2016Boot Camp, Learn Trading, Webinar and Video

We get bombarded with literally millions of data points every day. Hundreds of hours of TV and radio and thousands of words written, all of it 'news'. Does it help or hinder the trader? The truth is that with so much news it all becomes noise as the trader tries to work it out and ...