The time has come to head to the the 21st century and move my site off blogger: www.PaulJSingh.com. That's right, it's a .com now! I would have loved to keep "themarketspeculator" handle, but unf...
http://themarketspeculator.blogspot.com/2016/11/important-market-speculator-moving-to.html
In my inaugural episode of #AskPaulAnything, I talk about the the difficulty of stock trading exit strategy and how to simply the process, risk management, a fantastic intraday trade, deliberate ...
http://themarketspeculator.blogspot.com/2016/11/inaugural-askpaulanything-episode-1.html
Most of the trading content you read on social media is garbage. Sure some blogs are good, but most are bad. Yes some tweets are mind-bending, but most are worthless. You know this and have an in...
http://themarketspeculator.blogspot.com/2016/11/bad-information-leads-to-bad-trades.html
Donald Trump is bad for Wall Street. He can't be controlled, he's a loose cannon, he has ties to the evil Russian empire, he bankrupted his own companies, he hates women, minorities and anybody e...
http://themarketspeculator.blogspot.com/2016/11/i-will-pass-out-if-donald-trump-is.html
I wish I had a best friend named Billy that worked at Apple. I'd call him up and discreetly ask him in hushed tones: "Yo Billy, what's going on with Apple's earnings?" He'd hang up on me because ...
http://themarketspeculator.blogspot.com/2016/10/when-you-have-inside-information-and.html
What if I told you that your wins are your biggest trading problem? That's right, wins are what hold average traders from moving past break even to profitability. Most traders focus on their loss...
http://themarketspeculator.blogspot.com/2016/10/secret-trading-leak-your-winning-trades.html
You may have just crushed it with your biggest winning trade of the year, but you still do not know how to trade. That rush your feeling means it was a bad trade. Good trades are not exciti...
http://themarketspeculator.blogspot.com/2016/08/the-shocking-way-that-winning-trades.html
Me, Myself and BullsonWallStreet While the market consolidated for the 12th straight day by week's end, I took profits in 3 swing trade positions (LABU, AMBA, EXAS) and entered EXAS, FCX and...
http://themarketspeculator.blogspot.com/2016/07/weekend-review-me-myself-and.html
Looking back, Brexit was a big deal. Definitely the biggest deal since the banks collapsed in 2008. Think about it. The 5th largest economy in the world left the European Union. What the heck is ...
http://themarketspeculator.blogspot.com/2016/07/how-to-trade-news-with-this-top-secret.html
I was once a gambler, but now a trader. I once blew up a 200k account within a matter of weeks. Up until that point, I thought I was a trader. I opened up a trading account during the last stages...
http://themarketspeculator.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-7-words-you-must-tell-yourself.html
There are two mistakes most traders make when building a basket of trading setups. 1. They trade setups without and edge. 2. They trade the setup in the wrong market. Your trading "edge" gives yo...
http://themarketspeculator.blogspot.com/2016/06/how-most-traders-trade-without-edge-and.html
Crowds can be wise, but also manic and delusional. An astute trader learns to differentiate between these two extremes. When there is diversity of opinion, the crowd is a force. The parts think i...
http://themarketspeculator.blogspot.com/2016/06/smart-traders-profit-wisdom-and.html
Trading maxims that are treated as gospel, but nobody actually investigates their accuracy. Why do we implement them into our trading plans without investigating? It is because we are sheep...
http://themarketspeculator.blogspot.com/2016/05/only-fool-accepts-widely-held-trading.html
This is what holds many traders back. The small wins. Yet we love to take those small wins, and avoid small meaningless losses like the plague. We are afraid of losses. It doesn't matter it it is...
http://themarketspeculator.blogspot.com/2016/04/its-small-wins-that-hurt.html
It's a flaw in our brilliant minds and one that afflicts most traders. It's a big reason why 90 percent of traders fail. I'm watching one of my students trade a few weeks ago and he keeps taking ...
http://themarketspeculator.blogspot.com/2016/04/dont-choose-unhappiness-over-uncertainty.html
Swing Trading Master So you know about swing trading breakouts . . . fantastic. You can make a lot of money trading those. So you know about stochastics . . . that's great. Extreme conditions lea...
http://themarketspeculator.blogspot.com/2016/04/subtract-your-way-to-success.html
We can choose to define ourselves as traders by the trades we take. This is not about the money we make. Rather it's the place within the setup that we enter. Do you require more confirmation, co...
http://themarketspeculator.blogspot.com/2016/03/define-yourself-as-trader.html
Martin: I have a horrible migraine. Prison guard: A bottle of Advil is $750,000 It's easy to lose sight of the dangers of trading when things are going well. A few good trades and you are invinci...
http://themarketspeculator.blogspot.com/2016/03/prepare-for-worst-and-worst-martin.html
Aristotle said excellence is not an act, but a habit. What he was telling us is that excellence does not begin fully formed, but builds over time through habit. Excellence does not start excellen...
http://themarketspeculator.blogspot.com/2016/03/it-starts-with-one-112-pushups-habits.html
Yesterday I asked for blog post ideas for an epic post I plan to write on Bulls on Wall Street. There were a lot of great ideas, but two emails received from small account holders sealed the deal...
http://themarketspeculator.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-emotional-dreams-of-small-account.html
I recently engaged in an interesting chat with a novice trader this weekend. It got me thinking about the fallacy of backtesting and why I don't rely on past statistics. You heard me correc...
http://themarketspeculator.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-fallacy-of-backtesting-and-adapting.html
There is is nothing wrong with your mental game. Your head is fine and there is no need to go to a trading psychologist. You have got it all wrong. It's not that you don't know how to control you...
http://themarketspeculator.blogspot.com/2016/03/trading-meditation-is-it-your-head-or.html
Fact: Perception is fictional. You never see full reality, only what your brain wants you to see. Basically, your brain is lying to you every second of every minute of every day. Are you a contra...
http://themarketspeculator.blogspot.com/2016/03/trading-meditation-perception-is.html
Certainty is a problem for traders. They want the answer to the question, "What will the market do". I do not know. Does that make me an idiot? No, it makes me smart. I know that I do not k...
http://themarketspeculator.blogspot.com/2016/03/trading-meditation-uncertainty-is-way.html
It hurt bad, yet it wasn't so bad. Once when I was 9 years old my dad hit me with 10 straight pitches in a row. This was after I kept jumping out of the batters box while Pablo fired off 3 strike...
http://themarketspeculator.blogspot.com/2016/03/trading-meditation-taking-small-losses.html