My framework is simple: Price, Time, Volume, and Volatility. These four pillars shape the continuous two-way auction we trade every day.
MGI not trade advice.
The legendary @lahamed2 has written a follow up to his Pulitzer-prize winning Lords of Finance. His new book, 1873, is an instructive and meticulously told story about one of first major market crashes.
https://t.co/hvUks9KEJb
At shadowtrader, we update the weights of the 11 sectors in the S&P on the first of every month. Technology is now 38.6% of that index. The amount of concentration in the market around these names is mind blowing.
This will not be good for the general public most of whom are indexed to S&P when this turns.
Remember way back when (it was on May 1st but that's an eternity in this market) when I thought the SPX would stop at 7200 and turn lower?
At the time I put on a long put vertical of 722/697 in the SPY with an expiration of 5/29. While that was dead wrong at the time of entry, the trade ended up actually making a bit of money. How I did that could be it's own post which would be a LONG thread.
I leave you with the last thing I posted on this trade in the interest that it may be of help to you. Read the part in blue at the bottom and think about it the next time you are wrong and are at the crossroads of where you can get out break even or for a small gain. Especially if the trade is fighting the tape in the bigger perspective.
As I've said a million times, anyone can make money. Very few know how to not lose money.
It’s all about the bonds. It has always been about the bonds. And will always be about the bonds.
I just read this on the Internet.
Do you agree or agree to disagree?
Give yourself the room to grow, give yourself the time to learn, and most importantly, give yourself the patience in understanding that mistakes and pain are, by far, the biggest components of lesson-learning in this business.