A note to readers: While Dr. Tharp’s content is timeless, this article is from our newsletter archive and may contain outdated information, missing links or images. Most of you probably know people who thought they had a trading strategy buying technology stocks in the late 1990s. By the time 1999 came around, they considered themselves […]
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A note to readers: While Dr. Tharp’s content is timeless, this article is from our newsletter archive and may contain outdated information, missing links or images. I was very intrigued when I saw a Forbes website piece on the top mistakes even supposedly savvy investors make. What’s interesting about these types of articles is their general vagueness:
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A note to readers: While Dr. Tharp’s content is timeless, this article is from our newsletter archive and may contain outdated information, missing links or images. One of the key principles of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) is the importance of being in an optimal mental state. In fact, I recently watched an old edition of
A note to readers: While Dr. Tharp’s content is timeless, this article is from our newsletter archive and may contain outdated information, missing links or images. Many of you have heard the story of my first stock purchase at age 16. Fortune Magazine listed a mobile home manufacturer called Poloron Products as having the greatest
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A note to readers: While Dr. Tharp’s content is timeless, this article is from our newsletter archive and may contain outdated information, missing links or images. How many shares or contracts should you take per trade? It’s a critical question, one that most traders don’t really know how to answer properly. Position sizing™ strategies are
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A note to readers: While Dr. Tharp’s content is timeless, this article is from our newsletter archive and may contain outdated information, missing links or images. Despite the importance of all the material I have presented about position sizing strategies, most people have psychological biases that will cause them to 1) ignore the material totally
A note to readers: While Dr. Tharp’s content is timeless, this article is from our newsletter archive and may contain outdated information, missing links or images. Part I I’ve decided to write a series of articles on the Big Money Game. This is the game in which big money decides that the winners are those
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A note to readers: While Dr. Tharp’s content is timeless, this article is from our newsletter archive and may contain outdated information, missing links or images. PART 1 Most of you probably know by now that our mission at the Van Tharp Institute is transformation through a trading metaphor. What do I mean by transformation?
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A note to readers: While Dr. Tharp’s content is timeless, this article is from our newsletter archive and may contain outdated information, missing links or images. “Work hard and you’ll be rewarded.” “Do a lot of research, pick the right stocks, and you’ll become rich.” Both of those axioms sound simple and a lot of
A note to readers: While Dr. Tharp’s content is timeless, this article is from our newsletter archive and may contain outdated information, missing links or images. Through my workshops, courses, and programs, traders learn that whatever you have in life right now is exactly what you want. It might not be what you think you
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