Make a Million on 30 Trades

Money Management and Trading Strategies are much more important than the trades themselves.  There are three steps to making a million dollars trading.  Here they are:

  1. Trade enough to know what your expectancy value is for the next trade.  This is controlled by logging every trade and then calculating this Expectancy Ratio Formula as follows:
    ER = (Win x Probability of a Win%) – (Loss x Probability of a Loss%)  You need a positive number
  2. Next you need a  trading strategy that assures you can grow your account, besides just betting the same amount on each trade.  That can be a Percentage of your account, a Martingale or Anti-Martingale strategy (discussed in detail in our webinars and course)
  3. Finally, you must follow a consistent system as you trade larger and larger numbers of contracts or options.

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Patience and Discipline

I have encouraged all of my trading students to spend at least as much money on personal development and mental management as they do on software and trading systems.  I do really believe that trading is 90% mental, 80% money management and 10% signals.

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Chart Scannning Software

I have been trading now for over 20 years.  I gradually moved to trading the eMini S&P using Ensign Software which is a professional charting program with many features, special indicators and an extensive programming language.  You will need a data feed and depending on your trading style I recommend either eSignal or Trader Bytes (less expensive).  Try to avoid the free data guys like Interactive Brokers.  Many of the free data sources chunk the data, or are slightly delayed.

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Stock Search Programs

As I mention in my bio, I started out trading stocks back in 1994.There was an author selling a program for over $5,000 per month and an additional $600 per month for weekly stock picks.  After a little research I found that his trading account was over $1 million in the hole.  I also discovered that he was using Telechart 2000 to find these stocks.  I passed on his course and went directly to using TC2000, which I highly recommend today.  You can scan 9000 stocks in 15 seconds using your own or prebuilt scanning criteria.

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