What’s up everyone bidslamminbobby here ready to share some lessons learned.  Hopefully they will be implemented appropriately in 2019! 🙂 First, before I start I have to say I am most grateful to Jesus Christ my Lord and Savior for all He has done allowing me to overcome huge non trading related struggles during 2018. …

What’s up guys! Madaz here, coming at you guys with another information-packed blog post where I will discuss 2018, the lessons I learned, and how I plan on improving on myself to become a better trader in 2019. 2018 was a great year is so many ways.  It was overall a pretty good year in terms of profits as I …

  Hey guys! BACK at you with another highly requested blog topic. This time we’re going to talk about arguably the most important factor in any individual’s success especially when it comes to trading… Psychology! And I can already see it coming, “Madaz, thanks for the free blog post but… Teach us some trading indicators …

Alright guys! We are 3 months in now in the #NoBlowUpChallenge and although it was a pretty slow past 30 or so days, the theme of being discipline, following rules, and walking away when the edge was no longer to keep profits there defined this period. Still Nicely in the Green and No Blow Ups! …

Time for a 2 month (okay really 10 weeks, I was on vacation in Hawaii, by the way wait for a blog post about that :), cut me some slack here :D) progress report of the #NoBlowUpChallenge, a period that caught the last of the decent action in July then was able to avoid the $AWX …

So it’s been one month (well 5 weeks actually) since I started the #NoBlowUpChallenge and I wanted to analyze what’s been going on since then to keep myself accountable. Looking at the results, despite some setbacks, things have actually been looking pretty good. As you can see overall, since I started the challenge I’m actually …

The Problem So as you guys may have noticed, I’ve experienced some pretty bad set backs lately. First let’s quickly dissect what exactly happened. So sure there were some anomalies in the price action but taking a step back and not making excuses it’s still always our responsibility to manage risk properly. For example, you …

Madaz prides himself on keeping his kill-to-death ratio very high (~273 kills, only 17 Deaths for a 94.14% kill rate so far over the past 4 weeks) but once in awhile mishaps do occur. I’m going to try to document these cases so that you can learn what went wrong and how you can avoid …

Summers (for trading purposes, traditionally defined as the beginning of June to Labor Day Weekend) have been notorious for being slow when it comes to trading. Traders have sold in May and have long gone away. But that doesn’t mean you still can’t be profitable. While it may get really tough mentally to deal with …

2016 was a big year for me in many ways.  I stopped being cheap and spent money to add several tools to my arsenal that have helped me immensely.  I changed brokers after 3 good years at SpeedTrader.  I suffered the biggest loss of my trading career and I responded with one of the best …