From Harvey’s trading desk
Harvey’s Day Trading Blog
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Trades, Monday 14th January 2019
A good day trading the banks. Here are a couple of textbook trades
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Trade, Friday 11th January 2019
AAPL’s woes make for easy shorts. A couple like this are enough to pay for a new iPhone
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Stand And Deliver, Your Money or Your Life
I’m often amused when my non-trading friends tell me that they could never play the markets for a living because they couldn’t cope with the risk. They say things like, “Aren’t you worried you’ll lose it all one day?”, and…
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An Exercise In Discipline
The Oxford English Dictionary defines discipline as the practise of training people to obey rules or a code of behaviour. Trading successfully is all about obeying rules (following a trading plan), and the reason most struggling traders fail to make…
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How To Change Your Life In One Hour A Week
With 2018 drawing rapidly to a close, this is traditionally a time when we look back at what we’ve accomplished in the year. If you’re the forward thinking kind, you probably also look forward to your plans for the coming…
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Watching Multiple Symbols
Day traders who are new to trading stocks often find that watching a number of different symbols at the same time can take some getting used to. This is especially true for those who may already have experience of the…
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Breaking The Cycle
I’ve been working with a struggling trader, helping him to discover where his difficulties lie. Sometimes when we are in the thick of things, it can be hard for us to see for ourselves what might be obvious to others.…
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Trading The Trend
We’ve probably all heard the expression Let the trend be your friend, and sound advice it is too. Jumping into a stock or future while it’s priced low and riding it up an extended trend is a great way to…
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Successful Traders Execute
I’m of the belief that the single biggest barrier to success for most traders is themselves. Psychology is one of the aspects of this job that is discussed the least. Yet when you ask most professional traders, they will agree…
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Introduction
If I’ve noticed one thing all traders have in common, it’s that they love to talk about trading, and I am certainly no exception to the rule. Maybe it’s because trading is, for most of us, quite a lonely activity.…