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June 13, 2010
Trading is 95% Emotional Management!
Are YOU the MASTER of your emotions?



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Stock Watch 2010

Company Answers Corporation.
Stock Symbol: ANSW

June 11th Closed at 7.21
June 4th Closed at 7.54

Positioned as a long trade.


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"I can not even begin to express my gratitude to Robin for all that she has helped me to accomplish in such a short period of time. When I first called her, I was an emotional mess. I was in a place that so many new and experienced traders can one day find themselves. I was totally "blocked" as Robin would say, frozen, and paralyzed to a point where I was no longer able to take a trade. On my first phone call with her, she put me through her "Scramble" excersize, and the block became something that was a thing of the past. Not only was I able to trade again, but I immediately started to trade profitably again. It doesn't stop there though, because I can truly say that she has helped me to create a strict discipline around so many different aspects of the emotional side of trading. This has allowed me to increase contract size, and increase the size of my account.
As I have continued to work with her, the rules and the discipline have continued to grow. Eventually, I'm positive that she will help to me master myself, and as a result, master the art of trading. The bottom line is this: you have to work hard to get this, but if you are willing to work on yourself, Robin has the right tools, and expertise to help you get to where you want to be. Thank you Robin Dayne! You are the best!"
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Don’t Let This Trading Emotion Get YOU! - Frustration

By Robin Dayne

 

Oh, I know this is not your favorite topic but I felt I had to discuss it. Of all the emotions besides fear, frustration is the one I come across the most in my coaching calls. So if we discuss it maybe it will go away!

Traders are constantly working so hard to fine tune their strategies, trade according to their rules, stick to a plan, avoid any emotions and deal with ever changing market conditions…….but if one of these areas goes off, BANG frustration takes over.

So what creates frustration?

Frustration is created from a whole variety of different things. The number one reason usually stems from your past emotional baggage. Your beliefs, values, up-bringing, relationships and connections to money, all come to the surface and are tested with each and every trade you take.

Let me give you an example of how frustration surfaces. You are a very diligent person -- an A type personality and you decide you want to trade for a living. You have been very successful in your past career and life, as a doctor, lawyer, electrician, or successful at sports and my favorite an engineer. Typically you attack this new career in a methodical and intelligent way, you invest in the good system and instructions, cost is no object. You pick up the concepts quickly, after all you have a successful track record, and how hard could this be. You trade with the simulator do surprisingly well and are making great profits. Now you decide you are ready to go live and put your money on the line and all of the sudden you keep losing one trade after another. BINGO! Frustration! There hasn't been one trader out there, that hasn't experienced this or something very similar.

Bottom line frustration materializes when you have, a set expectations from your past that are not met in the present. A way of doing things that immediately leads to a success. New things were easy to accomplish but trading if a different animal. All of a sudden your emotions come into conflict with your intelligence. When emotions are taking you over your mind nothing in your trading works. Entries are off, fear comes in while in a trade and exits are hasty. Emotions are stronger then your logical thoughts. Have you ever tried to have a conversation with someone who is emotional?

What does a trader do?

The key thing is awareness. Being aware your emotions are there and in control of your actions is the first step to stopping them.

Second, you need to just let it go; by coming to the reality that this emotion is working against you and can only hurt your efforts to move forward. The emotion of frustration has no quality, no value and it keeps a trader stuck. Moving forward is inhabited and working to bring your conscious mind into the reality can happen by asking five questions.

Not just any questions but specific ones that will grab your thoughts and straighten them out to the reality of the situation. I often make a small card for traders that go into any emotion of these questions so they will have them when they need them. The reason questions work is if you ask your mind a question it is forced to stop what its doing as it searches for the answers. Emotions melt away. So, use these they work.

So related to being “frustrated” ask:

1.Does thinking in this way help my trading?
2.Does thinking this way help me move forward?
3.Does thinking this way help my profitability?
4.Does thinking this way feel good?
5.Does thinking this way do anything good for me?

If all the answers are no, no, no, no, no, no - guess what? YOU MUST stop. Say to yourself, “I am not going to let myself feel frustration anymore.” It does nothing good for me. Use the power of questions to center you mind.

Now if questions don’t work for you, then you could be experiencing an emotional block. Blocks are there to protect your mind and if you experience trading “pains” over and over from many losses a block can be formed and be stronger than questions can help. You will need to learn additional techniques to remove them.

You might want to talk about it or check out the coaching options on www.robindayne.com. Call me 702-616-3744 and let’s see what’s up.

In the meantime great trading!

 

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Top Traders Advice


Futures
By Chris Vermeulen

S&P-500, Gold & Oil Trend Trading Charts
June 8th, 2010


Market volatility continues to shake things up making it profitable for traders who are quick to spotting key reversal points, manage risk and taking profits before it evaporates. On Tuesday we saw the market go up and down more than I have seen in a long time… It moved over 5% as it trended up then down in 1% increments as shown in the chart below. Members of FuturesTradingSignals were able to capture a 1-2% gain which may not sound like much but when trading the leveraged ETFs, Futures or CFD’s we are making 4-200% profit within a few hours. That being said this type of price action is proof that the market just does not know which way to go and why trades must be very quick to enter and exit positions.Read More


Futures
By Chris Vermeulen

Gold, Oil & SPX Trading at Key Pivot Points
June 13th, 2010


Last week we saw the financial market including commodities move higher which was great to see. But the recent run up has brought both equities and commodities to their key resistance levels. With Gold, Oil and the SP500 trading near key resistance points we will most likely have some sharp movements this week so buckle up tight!


Gold – Daily Chart
The price of gold continues to form the large cup and handle pattern and is trading near resistance. This week I figure we will see gold make a move up or break the dotted support trend line and drop towards the blue support level. I continue to wait for a low risk setup for gold.Read More


Options
By Stan Moore

I too drank the Obama KoolAide.
June 6th, 2010

The markets were expecting a blowout Jobs Number Friday morning. Obama and Biden were touting the NFP (Non-farm Payroll) number so aggressively you'd swear "they" had inside information. I used the number of 450-700,000 on my Thursday charts. Goldman raised their estimate to 600,000. Later in the day I was hearing upwards of 900,000 were being whispered. Anything over 600K would be market friendly.

As I’ve said before, there are about 30 or so major news announcements a month that can move markets but only 3-4 really work well for a NET trader. NET traders look for news announcements at price extremes. If the market is expecting good news and is up hard into resistance the prior night we look to buy puts before the news is released and vice versa for bad news with price at lows.

The trading results using this strategy have been outstanding over a total of 28 years but specifically during a five year stretch I noted these trades on my Intraday Chart postings to prove my teaching point. The results showed that if a trader did this trade he/she made money 85% of the time -the winners returned on average nearly 100% while the losers averaged a point lost.

We now look forward to these trades with cheap weekly options – every week. This strategy builds on one of my many trading pearls - buy the rumor then sell the news. We are expecting the news is already priced-in but should the news disappoint we ton money. Besides, there is almost always some profit-taking on the good or bad news as the case may be. We generally only lose money if the news is a blowout in the expected direction.

Thursday night the 495 weekly puts closed at $2.65 and they opened over $6.00 on the lousy jobs numbers but reached $13.00 Friday near the close. So I drank the Kool-Aid (I believed the pre-announcements) with everyone else and I missed a great put trade. The puts doubled overnight and turned into another 10 bagger, the eighth this year. This is a rather simple trade strategy that pays rather large returns.

Why the President touted this NFP number so aggressively is beyond me. I'm guessing his advisors are all truly incompetent and have no idea what the market perceives as good or bad news. It's always bad when the government creates 95% of the jobs.

If I told you over 15 months ago that Congress would spent nearly $1 trillion on stimulus and that 2.5 million more Americans would be without jobs would you have believed me? Never! Even Obama said unemployment would not exceed 8.4%.

What's with that great neo-Keynesian "multiplier" that states that for every $1 the government spends the economy expands 1.5 times in output. Read More

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