What Do You Really Want by Van K. Tharp, PhD I sometimes use an exercise that came from the the Peak Performance 101 workshop entitled “Getting What You Want.” The exercise starts out with a question: If you could have anything in the universe, what would it be? Perhaps your answer might be $10 million…
October 2018 System Quality Number® Report by Van K. Tharp, PhD There are numerous ETFs that track everything from countries, commodities, currencies and stock market indices to individual market sectors. ETFs provide a wonderfully easy way to discover what’s happening in the world markets. I apply a version of my System Quality Number® (SQN®) score…
October 2018 Market Update: Bear Volatile Market Type By Van K. Tharp, PhD I always say that people do not trade the markets; they trade their beliefs about the markets. In that same way, I’d like to point out that these updates reflect my beliefs. I find the market update information useful for my trading,…
People often ask me questions like, “What qualities do top traders have?” One person even hired me on a consulting basis for a half day to get my answers to this question. However, paying a sizable fee for that information is unnecessary. Here are the five most important characteristics that I have found researching top…
Few people probably know that Intercontinental Exchange, which owns the New York Stock Exchange along with a number of other exchanges, is hard at work developing an institutional platform to trade cryptocurrencies. The name of the platform is Bakkt and it’s rumored to start in November 2019. First, the exchange is working in partnership with…
In May 2018 Bloomberg announced that they had formed a cryptocurrency index, which is significant for a few reasons. First, Bloomberg only caters to institutional clients so their index is their first step to widespread institutional involvement. Secondly, either in 2018 or early 2019 we will see ETFs for both BTC and ETH. Chances are…
Editors note: The following is an excerpt from the Definitive Guide to Position Sizing Strategies book. While some readers may be familiar with this topic a refresher is always useful. For readers who have yet to learn more about position sizing, take note. This is important information! John was a little shell-shocked about what happened…
Every trader goes through certain stages of development. Part of the first stage is to find a good trading system that fits the trader who also commits to fully following its rules. Learning and internalizing the rules of the system, the trader will need to build extensive experience trading the system. In this phase, the…
2017 was a huge bull market in cryptoassets. An investment in early 2017 could easily have gone up 100-fold by the end of the year. 2018, however, has been exactly the opposite. The market cap for cryptoassets as a whole has dropped from $800 billion to just over $200 billion. That means that most of…
A few years back I started teaching a 3-day Forex Systems Workshop based on three systems I actively trade. The systems use a simple and precise set of pattern-based rules so even novice traders can adopt the systems fairly quickly. If you trade systems based on visual pattern recognition, you need to learn to identify…
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