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Bitcoin and cryptocurrency experienced a massacre over the weekend, with Bitcoin dropping over 50% from their all-time high of $64,000. The world of crypto is scary these days. Unregulated exchanges give novice traders virtually insane leverages such as 1:500. These exchanges thrive on expensive commissions and encourage inexperienced traders to over trade. Part of the […]

In this webinar we will focus on a type of 1 minute bar that I call the Mis-Direction Bar. Like a Las Vegas magician, at crucial moments it gets us looking in the wrong direction. And if we take action based on the pseudo-information from that bar… we experience an immediate stop out. We will […]

Last week, Elon Musk announced that he will no longer accept Bitcoin for Tesla purchases, allegedly due to the “… rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels for Bitcoin mining and transactions …” Much of this mining takes place in China, but in all honesty, these environmental issues have been known for quite some time. Musk’s […]

Dear Traders, Mike Baehr and I are delighted to let you know that we have just published our next work together: Introduction to Trading Psychology: A Practical Guide to Improve Your Trading Psychology. This book is very different from our previous publication, Mastering Trading Psychology, as in this book, Mike describes the foundation of building […]

During this townhall Mike and Dr. Katz will invite two traders from the community to share their trading psychological issue and why they believe it holds them back. Join us to watch and listen to how Dr. Katz assists the traders in identifying the root cause behind the issue and steps to begin addressing it.

In this webinar, Neda will talk about bringing mindfulness to our emotional experiences. As soon as we recognize we’re getting overwhelmed by our emotions, we have the choice to create a space to experience them without judgement, resentment, or attachment. While waiting for the storm to pass we could bring a quality of nourishing self-compassion […]

I am writing this week’s newsletter from Ecuador. I found I needed to get out and do some climbing, and except for Nepal and Ecuador, the majority of international climbing destinations in the world are still closed to foreign climbers. These include places such as Chamonix (France), Peru, and Chile. Therefore, here I am, back […]

Our brain is a pattern recognition engine and as traders we work hard to find the hidden order in randomness. But often the harder we work, the less we have to show for it. One reason is that random rewards and punishments are quite stressful to the mammalian brain. Our initial response is usually to […]

Focusing on relative strength. At trade-ideas we took a look at the top indicators and chart setups that hedge funds and traders commonly look at. We then assigned values to each of these indicators and chart steps weighted by using statistical analysis with each one. Using the massive server tech that trade-ideas has on the […]