Options Trading for Private Investors

We share a simple options trading strategy, helping you to position where big money invests short-term.

Options trading offers you three significant advantages:

–           You only invest a fraction of about 1% to 5% of the share price.

–           You operate with leverage when your trade works.

–           You can limit your maximum risk by choosing an adequate strategy

The big question is: how to find such options trading opportunities and capitalize on them?

NeverLossTrading Options Strategy

Successful options trading needs a solid knowledge basis; however, today, we provide a shortcut in peaking over the fence and copying what institutional investors do.

We let our scanners venture through stocks with liquid option chains daily, highlighting happenings according to our specifications.

Let us share an example: End of the day on March 11, we created the following report for March 14 (a Monday), highlighting two options trading opportunities:

• BIDU
• SBUX

Our NLT Options Alert is comprehensive, reporting the details of the trading day:

Highlighted Options for March 14, 2022 by NeverLossTrading

As you see, it has a lot of details, but let us magnify into the table:

Highlighted Options for march 14, 2022

For BIDU, three options trading opportunities are highlighted:

• The March 18, 22, $125 Calls that were trading between $3.80 and $9.19, closing at $4.09
• The March 18, 22, $130 Calls that traded between $2.18 and $9.50, closing at $2.45
• The March 18, 22, 110 Puts that ranged between $0.52 and $4.10, closing at $4.09

When you see such indications, how to read and act on the happening?

A typical institutional trading strategy is selling naked Puts and buying Calls. The advantage of this strategy is that you are collecting premium and time decay works in your favor by selling Puts. On the other hand, when buying Calls, time decay negatively impacts you, but you want to achieve a leveraged income from solid directional price moves.

What did our indicators tell about the current price situation of BIDU?

The stock was in a downtrend; let’s check the TradeColors.com chart. Tradecolors.com is our introductory system to algorithmic trading with human interaction. Trade situations are specified by the first two same color candle combinations when the high of the second blue candle or the low of the second red candle is surpassed in the price movement of the next candle.

We let the chart tell when to buy or sell: Trade what you see!

BIDU on a Daily NLT TradeColors.com Chart

BIDU Highlighted NLT Trading Opportunity

The chart shows:

• On 3/4/2022, the TradeColors.com indicator highlighted a short selling opportunity that came to target on 3/11/2022.
• For March 14, 2022,  our alert showed an opportunity to copy the institutional investment of 11, 2022: buying $125 and $130 call options and selling them on March 16, 2022. The table below shows the calculated results for the Call options. We do not advise to participate in naked Put strategies; however, in the example, they expired worthless:

BIDU Options Trading Return

The example demonstrates the power of the leverage options trading can give you; however, you need to be aware of the opportunity. Short-term options are prone to time decay, and such, if you are wrong in your directional assumption, their value deteriorates quickly.

The second stock highlighted was SBUX (Daily Chart)

SBUX Highlighted Trading Opportunity by NeverLossTrading

Here is the impact the price development had on the Call options to buy:

SBUX Options Trading Return

A dream many options traders have; however, we want to make you aware that there is no risk-free trade, and on short-term options, theta or time decay can quickly take your money away. Hence, options trading needs a model or system that helps you to invest at crucial price turning points. The strategy of following institutional investments is just one way of trading along with price moves that you can learn in our mentorships.

Options traders have to find answers to multiple questions, reaching from a system-based price-move-indication to choosing the appropriate options trading strategy.

Importance of Option Trading Decisions

Dimensions of Options Trading Decisions

The overview shows multiple factors to consider and let us explain them:

• Price move indication determines to 33% the outcome of your options trading endeavors; however, there are many other decisions to be made with a similar impact on your options trading success.
• A valid options chain is an essential factor to consider and leads you to only focus on liquid options with tight bid/ask spreads.
• Trade repairability is intertwined with a valid options chain and includes picking a trading strategy that allows for a repair when the trade develops in the opposite direction.
• Our systems determine if the premium to pay or collect is in spec., and you trade with the odds in your favor. This way, you never pay too much or collect too little and trade with the odds in your favor.
• There are many theories of which strike price or delta to pick. We developed our own mechanics and rules, helping you to participate with the highest leverage in anticipation of a minimum 1-SPU price move.
• Our systems and strategies determine the maximum expected time in the trade to come to target, and in relation to this, you will always know which time to expiration to choose.
• We mainly focus on buying Puts or Calls on the side of the options trading strategies; however, we work with debit or credit spreads when options are overpriced.

Summary of our Options Trading Imperatives

Option Trading Imperative	Answer
Price Move Indication	NeverLossTrading System
Valid Option Chain	Statistics of bid/ask spreads, daily volume, open interest
Trade Repair Ability	Our research and experience shared in our mentorships
Max Premium to Pay or Min Premium to Collect	NLT SPU-Measure-Based decisions (Algorithm)
Time to Expiration	NLT Signal-Based
Option Trading Strategy	Chart-Based: Max. premium to invest or risk to accept

Summary of Options Trading Dimensions

Producing consistent income from trading and investing is a process. We provide systems, strategies, and a game plan, helping you develop yourself into the trader you want to be.

If you are up for learning this, let us get super interactive, and we will meet with you in a one-on-one meeting online to test how our systems can help you to answer the options imperatives.

Schedule your consulting hour:

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We are looking forward to hearing back from you,

Thomas

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Free Trading and Investing Education

Join us for the September Festival of Traders. Eight speakers in four hours. Each speaker has only 30 minutes to give you a great idea. Register for this big event now.



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Option Trading for Private Investors

Options offer wonderful tools for private investors to participate in the price moves of the underlying stocks, futures, commodities, and currencies.

With options, you find a variety of trading opportunities by Calls, Puts at various strike prices and expiration dates; not to mention the ability to create multiple types of spreads and combinations to take advantage of different market conditions; however, we want to keep it simple and focus on using options for participating in directional price moves of the underlying assets and you can do this with any type of account, even IRA, custodian, or cash accounts.

Thus, let us share with you how to find strong directional price move setups and explain the reasons for trading options instead of the underlying assets.

Focusing on a simple way of option-trading, we buy Calls to participate in price moves to the upside and we buy Puts for price moves to the downside.
What will be your advantage of buying options over buying or selling the asset?
Our answers are multifold:

• You can limit your maximum risk to the premium paid.
• Options allow you to only invest a fraction: 1% - 5% of the asset price.
• You operate with leverage, striving for 30% - 200% return per trade.
• Trades can be repaired when they do not work: reducing losses or even turning losers into winners.
• There is no uptick rule for buying or selling options and thus, you can participate in price moves to the downside in any type of account and market condition.

Your key to successful option-trading is your ability to repetitively predict directional price moves with a high accuracy.

This is where a trading system comes into play and you best only consider trading systems that offer you the following:

• A ≥ 65% probability to predict the future price move of an asset.
• Trading/investing at specific and confirmed entry conditions only.
• At entry, you receive specific target prices, reachable in a pre-defined period of time.
• Operating with specific stop price levels, where you either exit your trade or you start repairing it.

For option traders, the element of high predictability of a price move at a pre-specified time period is important: At whatever strike price you buy Puts or Calls, you are always paying a time value; which is decaying, taking away from your investment even so the underlying asset price might not even move in your disfavor.

Let us put together two examples:

TSLA Daily NLT-Top Line Chart March 5 to March 29, 2018

The chart shows you on 3/14/2018 a trade condition: Sell <$323.92 (CiC expresses a change in command; sellers take over from buyers at this setup). Thus you can operate with a clear-cut entry-level condition: When the price-move of the next candle surpasses the set price threshold, go short in the asset (TSLA) through buying Puts.

The trade entry condition was met in the next candle/bar on 3/15/2018 and thus confirmed the trade entry. By the system conditions, you know the maximum and favorable price to pay for the option and the time to expiration to decide for. We teach those details, concepts, and strategies in our mentorships and give you the tools on hand for taking solid trading and investing decisions.

Where is the magic in trading options?

Let us explain:

1. You are able to participate in the downside price move of TSLA without the need to comply with SEC regulations that do not allow sorting stocks with account holdings < $25,000, or in an IRA, or cash accounts.
2. No need to borrow TSLA stock from your broker, with the risk that it might not be available for you.
3. The NLT system conditions specified at the chosen instance, the maximum price to pay for TSLA Put options at $14; favorably at $7:

• When accepting the trade, Puts were available at $7.22 and such the price to pay was in spec. (the NLT chart dashboard expresses those price levels).
• In essence, your minimum investment to participate in the price move of TSLA was 2.2% of the share price at entry (just a fraction); asking you for a $722 investment, which is more or less the price of two shares and you control 100.

4. By NLT Top-Line, we assume to reach the price target-1 after a maximum time in the trade of five bars/candles.

• Actually, the price moved to target-1in three bars, producing a 70% return on investment.
• Price target-2 was supposed to be reached after a maximum of 10 bars and was reached at bar-8, with a return on investment of 433%.

Next, we show you if you like to take a longer-term perspective, how the system can help you to make sound decisions with fractional investments:

MSFT Weekly NLT-Top Line Chart, November 2017 to March 2018

The chart shows a buy threshold at Buy>$88.41, which was confirmed in the price move of the next candle, allowing the trade entry with Call options. This way, you can pre-condition your order so it only goes into the market when your conditions are met, at your pre-defined offering price. This way, you do not have a need to sit in front of your computer for the order entry.

By our system, we originally assumed to reach the target-1 after one to five bars and got there in two bars. Target-2 was reached at bar-3 (3-weeks later), with the following return expectations:

• Return at target-1: 52%.
• Return at target-2: 110%.

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We hope this shows you, how you can keep more of your own money and make better than average returns… and fewer mistakes. NeverLossTrading provides you with the systems and knowledge to find such opportunities and to make those decisions. You stay in control as the markets move up and down, with at-a-glance guidance where the chart will tell, when to best buy or sell. Your trade potentials are either to be found by own scanners or by the NeverLossTrading Alerts (subscription service).

To learn more about what you will experience trading the markets the NeverLossTrading way, check out our info page and make a decision..click.

We are in business since 2008 and developed multiple systems and the necessary tools and knowledge base to support you in your aim for trading and investing success. If this is for you and you want to experience how it works live:

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Thomas Barmann

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Free Trading and Investing Webinar

As we begin a new year, many are planning their next trading moves. Join us on January 24, 2018, to hear what six different market commentators have to say regarding current trade ideas, strategies and the most profitable ways to make money in today’s market environment.

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12:00 PM to 12:45 PM CT— Dan Cook of Nadex with “Managing Risk with Options”
During his presentation, Dan will talk about the use of a unique, short-term option contract, which traders can use to precisely control risk and find opportunity without ever being stopped out again. Using Nadex Spread contracts on indices, commodities, currencies and even Bitcoin, traders can take both directional and direction neutral trades to take advantage of all market conditions.

12:45 to 1:30 PM CT— Rande Howell of Traders State of Mind with “Forging a Disciplined, Patient Mind for Dealing with the Uncertainties of Trading”
Many traders come from a technical background where they were highly effective. Out of that experience grew a confidence in their abilities that they brought to trading. And that’s where the trouble began. Though they kept trying, the old skills simply didn’t work anymore. Rande will discuss what it takes for traders to move their old skill sets into the new skills needed for success in managing the uncertainty of trading.

1:30 PM to 2:15 PM CT— Thomas Barmann of NeverLossTrading with “High Probability Trading and Investing in 2018”
In his presentation, Thomas will talk about how to operate with a system that lets you find trading opportunities by spelling out clear-cut conditions for trade entry, exit and stops. He will discuss how to employ these strategies during multiple time frames as a day trader, swing trader or long-term investor.

2:15 PM to 3:00 PM CT – Matt Brown of Newbie-Trader.com with “Combining Market Profile with Elliott & Fibonacci to Identify Pinpoint Market Turns”
Matt will give a detailed look into how he has uncovered the rhythms of the futures market and turned that into a high probability order entry day trading plan complete with dynamic targets, trails and stops. Included in his presentation will be an explanation of short and intermediate term market cycles and an introduction to confluence techniques to identify support and resistance.

3:00 PM – 3:45 PM CT – Carley Garner of DeCarley Trading with “How to Cope with Margin Calls Using Options and Futures”
Margin calls happen to the best of them, but there are often ways to alleviate margin deficits without adding money to the account or liquidating positions. Carley will discuss the nature of margin and margin calls while offering detailed strategies of using long and short calls and puts to reduce the margin in a trading account. Her presentation will cover what margin is, who sets it, why it is necessary and other topics.

3:45 PM – 4:30 PM CT – Frank Ochoa of PivotBoss with “Executing Precision Swing Trading Opportunities”
Frank will discuss how to identify and execute high probability swing trades in any market. His presentation will focus on identifying the best reversals, how to negotiate your entry at the ideal trade location, and how to forecast precision targets based on the volatility of the instrument you are trading. These concepts and techniques can be applied in any timeframe and any market you choose to engage.

***Incredibly, there is no registration fee to attend this event. But, our space on the webinar is limited to 1,000 people. Since we can’t go over that limit, please be sure to register early and enter the room 15 minutes before the scheduled time (12:00 pm Central Time [1:00 pm Eastern] on January 24, 2018).***

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What a Trade Repair Strategy can do for You

We predict the outcome of a future price move; even so we do this with a high probability, we do not get the direction always right.
What do we do then?
Taking a stop-loss; however, our name derives from Never Stop Loss Trading and this was a bit lengthy. We teach multiple trade adjustment strategies for Stocks, Options, Futures, and FOREX.
So let me tell a story about a recent happening…click for the video.

Doing constant research, we are currently testing a market pressure indicator and like to trade preferably options on specifically formulated conditions (this opening pressure trade is still in an exploratory stage).
On June 28, our scanners picked PG to open with market pressure: We bought call option positions for next week’s options at 9:33 a.m. EST and paid $0.38/per share controlled.
TradeColors.com Chart at Trade Entry

The trade reverted and at 10:43 a.m. EDT and triggered our stop or adjustment level.

A decision had to be made and we prepare those decisions before we enter a trade, for easy execution (at any trade, you should have a plan-B):
A short credit spread was created: $0.50 wide and gave us a premium of $0.48.
How does this calculate up?

• We invested $0.38 and this would have been our maximum loss.
• If we exited the trade at the stop level, a loss of $0.30 or 80% would need to be booked.
• We did not take the stop, changed the trade direction and received a premium for doing so: $0.48, giving us a potential return on investment of 26% and increasing the risk of the trade by $0.02 or by 5%.
• A day later, we could have closed the spread for a premium of $0.03, which we did not accept yet, however it would have turned a $0.30 loser into an immediate winner, just a day later, giving us back $0.45 for the originally invested $0.38: Turning a losing trade into a winner.

If you like to learn how to trade this way, check out our NeverLossTrading mentorship programs, there we are teaching this and many other trading strategies.
For more information: contact@NeverLossTrading.com  or call: +1 866 455 4520.
Sign up for our Free Trading Tips, Reports, and Webinars...click here. 
Good trading,
Thomas
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Option Trading NeverLossTrading Style

In learning how to trade various financial instruments, option trading is the high art or skill of trading and when done right, it can offer you opportunities with limited risk you might not even have thought of.

Stock trading is the easiest way of trading; when you stick to assets, which exchange more than one million shares per day, you automatically receive tight bid/ask spreads and your orders should fill at ease.

Futures and FOREX trading is the next category:  Leveraged instruments, where it is important to understand the rules, obligations and price-moves per time-frame observed. Hence, a bigger step up of what you need to know compared to stock trading.

Option Trading, why do we call it a high art or skill?  

You are trading leveraged instruments with lower volumes, wider bid/ask spreads, and you choose from multiple strike prices on Puts and Calls. On top of all, you have multiple combination trades between Puts and Calls, which we spare in this publication and concentrate purely on straight Put and Call buying.

The key to option trading is that you specify the relation to the underlying asset and how you want to benefit when prices go up, down, or moves sideways: hence, you need a system that helps you to estimate expected price moves of the underlying asset:

Example: WYNN-Stock on a trading system where you buy Calls when the price threshold of the buy-initiation candle is surpassed to the upside in the next candle or you buy Puts when the sell-initiation candle price threshold is surpassed to the downside on the next candle.

WYNN Stock Daily Chart with Buy Signals, buy Calls; on Sell Signals, buy Puts

When your trading system gives you the idea of when to enter and exiting a trade: let us take a five bar exit, then you already know the choice of an option to take.

Do you?

When you consider the following, you do:

• Trade with the price move of the underlying instrument.
• Do not bring the option into options expiration week; by expecting a 20-percent time decay of your premium paid per day of holding your asset in options expiration week.
• Choose a meaningful strike price that protects you when the trade is in danger and comes into the money when the trade works out (we teach this in detail in our mentorship classes).

When you buy Puts and Calls this way and you work with a high probability trading system, what will be possible outcomes:

• When the trade continues as originally expected, you have a good chance to achieve a 70% - 200% return on your investment.
• When the trade goes wrong, you lose about 80% of the investment.
• When your trading system allows you to get two out of three trades right and you distribute your investment in 10-partitions, keeping one as cash, you could achieve exceptional results.

For our calculations, we always take a conservative approach, calculating with the lower rate of expectation and by not having a chance to control that you are complying to our trade rules, we cannot commit that you will achieve such exceptional results, but want to share the opportunity option trading can give to you.

The table below shows you, how we help you to distribute risk and how following our principles carries the potential to turn $3,000 into $18,070 in one month: Trades are based on a 4-hour chart. 

The plan above keeps a security chest, in case of a bad streak during the investment cycle.

When you are trading NeverLossTrading style, you always have a clear business plan: financial plan and action plan (what to do when, where, and how) to follow high probability trade setups on multiple time frames for a big variety of assets.

To learn how this is done, we offer multiple mentorships and systems; take a look and let us know on which you want to receive a personal consultation hour...click. 

To let you know assets ready for a price move, we offer in addition our NeverLossTrading Alert services…click. 

For a live demonstration of your preferred system:

Call +1 866 455 4520 or contact@NeverLossTrading.com

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Which Stock to Trade?

Don’t we all want to trade a stock that is outperforming the markets?

Outperforming has two dimensions:

• A price development far above the market.
• A price development far below or against the market.

As you can see, we are already considering more than one strategy to trade the markets. Let us assume: By having thousands of tradable assets, we always have the ability to pick a stock that has a potential for a desired price-move and thus, we neglect price-neutral-strategies and focus on going long or short in an asset.

How do you notice a strong individual stock performance?

We can help you twofold:

• NeverLossTrading Alerts, where we notify stocks and other assets with a strong individual performance, ready for a price move.
• Individual scanners or watch list indicators integrated into selected NLT concepts.

Each of the NLT Alerts or scans has clearly defined entries, exits, and stops- or adjustment levels.

How to go short from an IRA or trade high value stocks from a small account?

By applying option strategies!

Now, it gets even more demanding:

• Which strike price to pick?
• Which expiration day to choose?

Answering all this is part of our mentorship programs; in this article we just want to guide you through a list of trade preparation steps and give you some examples of high probability trading.

Let us share some wisdom:

• Long-term investors best trade from a daily chart.
• Swing traders from a 4-hour and daily chart.
• Day traders from meaningful sub-day time frames.

Long-Term Investor Example: Time in the Trade 1-5 weeks, while many of us only stay in a trade for two weeks.

TSLA Weekly NLT Top-Line Chart

Dots on the chart mark the target, bubbles the formulated price threshold for the entry. Bubbles, where the requested price threshold was not surpassed by the next candle are not commented. TSLA on the above chart had six winners and one losing trade, by accepting trades mechanically; considering that we do not want to trade the second NLT Light Tower (candle with a cyan dot) in a price sequence, the loss could have been prevented. When applying trade repair strategies, the losing trade could have even been turned into a winner.

As a live example, we are taking the NeverLossTrading Long-Term Investor Watch List Alert for the Week of March 14, 2016 and strike a balance today at March 24, 2016; documenting the following results:

March 14 to March 24, 2016 Predictions and Results: 9-Winners, 2-Losses

81% winners after two weeks or less in a trade is a result that speaks for high probability trading, which we dedicate ourselves to; check your charts and you will see for yourself.

The subscription to the NeverLossTrading Long-Term Investor Alert is $195/month. As a special offer, we give you the first week for free for testing…click here for the details. Test it out with no obligations. We only trade when the desired price threshold is surpassed: The NLT Alert contains the entry price level desired to indicate a strong institutional price move.

If you rather want to learn and experience how to accept and execute those trades with our systems, schedule your individual consulting hour:

Call +1 866 455 4520 or contact@NeverLossTrading.com

We are teaching one-on-one only, thus capacities are limited: do not miss out!

In case you are not yet part of our free trading tips, reports, and webinars…sign up here.

We are looking forward to hearing back from you,

Thomas

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How to Trade the New Earnings Season

AA started the new earnings season and you have three choices to take:

• Trade into earnings
• Hold over earnings
• Trade out of earnings

If you want to limit your risk and leverage your return, option trading strategies are a very meaningful way to participate in the price move of the underlying.

In many publications option straddles or strangles are propagated as good choices at earnings; however, you need to consider that the market makers already built a volatility component into the option price and if the underlying is not at minimum moving for 10% of its share value, you will be losing money.

What you gone do: your chart will tell you!

AA Combination Chart with NLT Top-Line, Trend Catching and Price Breakout Indicators

Would you be able to establish a short trading strategy when the signals tell you?

If you want to learn trading like this and in particular how to apply an option strategies to stack the odds in your favor, schedule your personal consulting hour:

Call +1 866 455 4520 or contact@NeverLossTrading.com

If you rather trade futures: we are happy to show you multiple strategies and their outcome. 

We focus on one-on-one teaching and are open for new students.

If you are not already part of our free trading tips, reports and webinars…sign up here.

Time is limited, so do not miss out.

We are looking forward to hearing back from you,

Thomas

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Free Trading Lessons at the Festival of Traders

January 14, 4 p.m. - 7 p.m. EST: Six presenters.

Learn powerful trading techniques used by professional traders. Attend one or all six lessons. Seats are limited.

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January 14 presentations include:

Thomas Barmann, NeverLossTrading
How to Trade Short-Term Price Actions in Any Market
4:00 p.m. Eastern Time (1:00 p.m. Pacific)

Steven Primo, Specialist Trading
The Three Key Elements of a Winning Strategy
4:30 p.m. Eastern Time (1:30 p.m. Pacific)

Jeffrey Brewer, Power Emini
Advanced Swing Trading Tactics Using Trading Ranges
5:00 p.m. Eastern Time (2:00 p.m. Pacific)

John Clayburg, Clayburg.com
How to Diversify Your Trading with a Single Item and a Single System
5:30 p.m. Eastern Time (2:30 p.m. Pacific)

Jon Haghayeghi, Seasonalysis
How to Effectively Trade Equity Seasonality: Structuring Options Positions Around Seasonal Setups
6:00 p.m. Eastern Time (3:00 p.m. Pacific)

Dave Mecklenburg, Tiger Shark Trading
Presenter Roundtable: Making Simple Changes to Improve Your Trading Results
6:30 p.m. Eastern Time (3:30 p.m. Pacific)

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12 Action Steps to Better Your Trading or Investing in 2015

Success is the achievement of something desired, planned, or attempted.

What does that mean for your trading or investing?

Desire is something we want, wish or long for. As better we can formulate or visualize the desired future situation/result, the easier we can strive for the well formulated picture:

“If you don’t know where to go, you might not get there”.

We help you to formulate attainable and specific goals in twelve task-steps to better your trading or investing, with some hyperlinks to real life examples.

Our studies were conducted over many years and we want to share the essence with you:  

Task-1: Use a trading system, which allows you to find trade setups with a probability for success above 63%..click to read on for the detailed reasons. Back test 100 trades and forward test 10. Then strike a balance: If your current system does not deliver on this performance rate, you need to invest into a new one or take trading as a hobby, means not expecting to make money from it!

Task-2: Work with trading concepts and assets, allowing you to make money to the up- and downside in any account: If you trade from an IRA, learn options trading or add Futures to your portfolio of assets you trade.

Task-3: Trade for minimum expected returns on cash invested or margin held: 0.5% on stock trades, 30% on stock options, 5% on futures and FOREX. If your trade setup does not give you such returns: Find a different one or don’t trade. We teach the reasons why in our mentorships…click to read details.

Task-4: Find a trade frequency that suits your personal circumstances and trade: If you are a long-term investor, plan for a minimum of three trades a month and work with weekly charts. A swing trader shall work with daily charts and minimum three trades per week. Day trading is best accomplished with three trades per day on reference time-frames. Here is an example for stock traders, who knows at the opening what to trade and do this daily…click to read on.

Task-5: Never allow a single trade to produce a higher than 5% loss of your account value. To do so, define for every trade a price threshold where the original assumption of the trades is no more valid. If the necessary price threshold requires a higher risk, do not accept the trade. When the maximum risk price is reached, either exit your trade or apply methods of protection and capital preservation.

Task-6: Formulate positive trade exits, take profits, and reinvest: Constant trading and compounding interest has a much higher probability to build your desired returns than betting everything on single trade wonders. To accomplish this goal, you need a data source, which provides you with instruments ready to trade on a consistent basis: Either, you develop this on your own or you purchase a market proven trade alert service.

Task-7: Strive for constant improvement: Journal your trades; check and balance which situations worked and which not, take feedback from a coach, adjust and improve your trading.

Task-8: Have a plan and trade your plan (click for an example) by formulating which instruments you trade, what time frames you trade them on, how you trade them to the up- and downside.

Task-9: Treat trading as a business: Set your trading or investing up, so you are treated and taxed as a business. Work for yourself and make your money work for you without getting distracted by other life circumstances. Have the technical capabilities (computer, broker, charting, data lines) in place, which are required for participating in the markets you want to be present in. Check our Kindle book..click.

Task-10: Prepare for trading or investing: - Those who fail to prepare, prepare to fail – It is essential to know the key events for the instruments you are trading: Earnings announcements, news announcements, economic news on a worldwide basis (click for an overview): Limit the risk of holding an investment without protecting yourself at such critical times or being in a trade where news can trigger excessive volatility, which potentially is taking out your stops, even so the market goes in your desired direction.

Task-11: Mental preparation: - Let the market guide you - Put your desire to trade or invest away and allow yourself flexibility by not trading when there is no market movement and increased trading when the markets allow. Build yourself the mind and inner constitution by controlling your emotions and desires so you can make conscious decisions, which allow you to apply your trading principles.

Task-12: Educate yourself: - An investment in knowledge always pays the highest interest – Be trained at what you trade and add new skills, new understanding, new visions and strategies that allow you to stay and move with the markets, giving you the flexibility to trade or invest in various instruments and asset categories.

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