Throughout my trading career I’ve interacted with many traders. I have been a member of several different trading communities where I could watch some new traders blossom and others blow up their accounts. I have worked personally, on a daily basis, with many different brand new traders as well as some vastly experienced ones to both tweak my own style as well as to try to help newer traders tweak theirs. Ultimately, some of these traders have stuck it out and become profitable, some are still working on it, and some have decided that trading is not for them …

It’s been over three months since I posted a new blog entry here. I only like to write when I feel inspired, so that my readers consistently get content that can add value to their lives and never get a post that was posted “just because.” Having said that, I’ve been thinking about this for some time: Trading is the most difficult challenge you’ll ever face. Even if you do manage to make it over the seemingly insurmountable mountain of trading “tuition,” you’ve still got a long road ahead of you: you need to develop consistency …

Have you ever been walking down a sidewalk or a street on a crisp fall day and seen a really crunchy looking leaf lying on the ground?

We all do it. It’s like some weird addiction. When you see a crunchy looking leaf, a pinecone, a collection of branches, you have to step on it. We live for the crunch! It’s so satisfying! It’s kinda like scraping the bottom of your ice cream bowl to make sure you got all the chocolate-syrup-melted-ice-cream-mixture out of it, or sopping up the …