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Van Tharp Teaches Position Sizing Strategies and Risk Management

Van Tharp dives deep into position sizing strategies. It’s a lesser-known topic, but aside from your own psychology, it’s the most important subject you could ever learn about trading. Position sizing strategies guide you on how much you should have on throughout the course of a trade. What many traders don’t realize is that achieving […]

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Master Trading Success with Dr. Van Tharp’s Peak Performance Course

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The Peak Performance Home Study Course is Dr. Tharp’s Masterpiece! It is designed for all levels of investors and traders—beginners to advanced. It is designed for both unsuccessful traders seeking to improve their performance and successful traders who want to continue to improve. Dr. Tharp was a consistent and systematic researcher of human behavior. He collected

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Analysis Paralysis

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Over Analysis, Over Simplification and Somewhere in Between By D.R. Barton Jr. October 16, 2018 A note to readers: While much of this article’s content is timeless, it is from a past publication and may contain outdated information, missing links or images. The more I trade and interact with other traders (both old and new),

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Remembering Van Tharp By, Gracia Rosslow

Blog Posts, Dr. Van K. Tharp, Ph.D.

I was asked to say a few words about my memories of Van Tharp but this may be more than a few words since I have known him for more than three decades. This means I have known Van for half of my life. During that time, Van has been my teacher, a mentor and

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Bitcoin and Cryptos: Are They Still Their Own Asset Class? By, D.R. Barton, Jr.

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I’m really excited for spring to come to my home state of Delaware here on the east coast of the U.S. But after one warm spell last week, we’ve been hit with chilly weather and even had frost warnings over the last couple of nights. Despite the short-term weather, my backyard is starting to come

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What the Fed Said (A Month Ago) De-FANGs Big Tech By, D. R. Barton, Jr.

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The magnitude of day-to-day and intraday market moves is a bit mind-blowing at the moment. Yesterday (Wednesday, April 6, 2022) gave us a great case in point. Microsoft (MSFT), which has been the on-again/off-again market capitalization champion over the last 23 years (more on that below), got slammed. And so did the rest of Big

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Market Timing Update March 14, 2022 By, Chuck Whitman

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The problem with the stock market is that breaks in the market come so fast. Before you blink, your portfolio is taking on large losses. Then you go into hope mode and wait to see if it comes back. But what if it doesn’t…Let’s look into the latest Market Timing Update from REED$TRADER. We got

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Ken’s Corner – An Intraday Bitcoin Trade With Controlled Risk

Blog Posts, Dr. Ken Long, Tips, Van Tharp's Trading Blog

Ken’s Corner is a place you can pop in to see what kind of trading tid bits trader and instructor Ken Long is sharing. This week Ken shares the learning journey of one of his students. While students are still learning the patterns and methods, in the 3rd week of a 10 week course this

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Covid Food Supply Chain Follow-Up: As Predicted – No Widespread Food Shortages By, D.R. Barton, Jr.

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Barely a month into the COVID pandemic and lockdowns, we had already experienced bare shelves at the grocery store back in early April. First, stores ran out of toilet paper and disinfectant wipes. Then stores ran out of canned foods and rice. Then in mid-April, headlines started talking about longer-lasting “food shortages.” Meat processing

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Futures Help Solve Your Trading Problems By, Gabriel Grammatidis

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Are you trading Futures? If not why not? Futures can help solve a number of common trading problems. See if you have any of the problems listed below – Problem 1. You can’t trade live market hours for the New York or Chicago time zones. You can easily trade Liquid Futures markets if you

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