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Building Your First Trading Plan | Step By Step Guide 📖What is a trading plan? A trading plan is a comprehensive decision-making tool for your trading activity. It helps you decide what, when and how much to trade. A trading plan should be your own, personal plan – you could use someone else’s plan as an outline but remember that someone else’s attitude towards risk and available capital could be vastly different to yours. 📚Why do you need a trading plan? You need a trading plan because it can help you make logical trading decisions and define the parameters of your ideal trade. A good trading plan will help you to avoid making emotional decisions in the heat of the moment. ✳️TRADING PLAN CREATION STEPS: 1️⃣Outline your motivation Figuring out your motivation for trading and the time you’re willing to commit is an important step in creating your trading plan. Ask yourself why you want to become a trader and then write down what you want to achieve from trading. 2️⃣Decide how much time you can commit to trading Work out how much time you can commit to your trading activities. Can you trade while you’re at work, or do you have to manage your trades early in the mornings or late at night? If you want to make a lot of trades a day, you’ll need more time. If you’re going long on assets that will mature over a significant period of time – and plan to use stops, limits and alerts to manage your risk – you may not need many hours a day. It's also important to spend enough time preparing yourself for trading, which includes education, practising your strategies and analysing the markets. 3️⃣Define your goals Any trading goal shouldn’t just be a simple statement, it should be specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and time-bound (SMART). For example, ‘I want to increase the value of my entire portfolio by 15% in the next 12 months’. This goal is SMART because the figures are specific, you can measure your success, it’s attainable, it’s about trading, and there’s a time-frame attached to it.You should also decide what type of trader you are. Your trading style should be based on your personality, your attitude to risk, as well as the amount of time you’re willing to commit to trading. 4️⃣Choose a risk-reward ratio Before you start trading, work out how much risk you're prepared to take on – both for individual trades and your trading strategy as a whole. Deciding your risk limit is very important. Market prices are always changing and even the safest financial instruments carry some degree of risk. Some new traders prefer to take on a lower risk to test the waters, while some take on more risk in the hopes of making larger profits – this is completely up to you. It is possible to lose more times than you win and still be consistently profitable. It's all down to risk vs reward. 5️⃣Decide how much capital you have for trading Look at how much money you can afford to dedicate to trading. You should never risk more than you can afford to lose. Trading involves plenty of risk, and you could end up losing all your trading capital (or more, if you are a professional trader). Do the maths before you start and make sure you can afford the maximum potential loss on every trade. If you don't have enough trading capital to start right now, practise trading on a demo account until you do. 6️⃣Start a trading diary For a trading plan to work it needs to be backed up by a trading diary. You should use your trading diary to document your trades as this can help you find out what’s working and what isn’t.You don’t only have to include the technical details, such as the entry and exit points of the trade, but also the rationale behind your trading decisions and emotions. If you deviate from your plan, write down why you did it and what the outcome was. The more detail in your diary, the better. ❤️Please, support our work with like & comment!❤️ What do you want to learn in the next post?
TVC:GOLDEducation
by UnitedSignals
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📊HOW TO CREATE A TRADING PLAN📊 📖What is a trading plan? A trading plan is a comprehensive decision-making tool for your trading activity. It helps you decide what, when and how much to trade. A trading plan should be your own, personal plan – you could use someone else’s plan as an outline but remember that someone else’s attitude towards risk and available capital could be vastly different to yours. 📚Why do you need a trading plan? You need a trading plan because it can help you make logical trading decisions and define the parameters of your ideal trade. A good trading plan will help you to avoid making emotional decisions in the heat of the moment. ✳️TRADING PLAN CREATION STEPS: 1️⃣Outline your motivation Figuring out your motivation for trading and the time you’re willing to commit is an important step in creating your trading plan. Ask yourself why you want to become a trader and then write down what you want to achieve from trading. 2️⃣Decide how much time you can commit to trading Work out how much time you can commit to your trading activities. Can you trade while you’re at work, or do you have to manage your trades early in the mornings or late at night? If you want to make a lot of trades a day, you’ll need more time. If you’re going long on assets that will mature over a significant period of time – and plan to use stops, limits and alerts to manage your risk – you may not need many hours a day. It's also important to spend enough time preparing yourself for trading, which includes education, practising your strategies and analysing the markets. 3️⃣Define your goals Any trading goal shouldn’t just be a simple statement, it should be specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and time-bound (SMART). For example, ‘I want to increase the value of my entire portfolio by 15% in the next 12 months’. This goal is SMART because the figures are specific, you can measure your success, it’s attainable, it’s about trading, and there’s a time-frame attached to it.You should also decide what type of trader you are. Your trading style should be based on your personality, your attitude to risk, as well as the amount of time you’re willing to commit to trading. 4️⃣Choose a risk-reward ratio Before you start trading, work out how much risk you're prepared to take on – both for individual trades and your trading strategy as a whole. Deciding your risk limit is very important. Market prices are always changing and even the safest financial instruments carry some degree of risk. Some new traders prefer to take on a lower risk to test the waters, while some take on more risk in the hopes of making larger profits – this is completely up to you. It is possible to lose more times than you win and still be consistently profitable. It's all down to risk vs reward. 5️⃣Decide how much capital you have for trading Look at how much money you can afford to dedicate to trading. You should never risk more than you can afford to lose. Trading involves plenty of risk, and you could end up losing all your trading capital (or more, if you are a professional trader). Do the maths before you start and make sure you can afford the maximum potential loss on every trade. If you don't have enough trading capital to start right now, practise trading on a demo account until you do. 6️⃣Start a trading diary For a trading plan to work it needs to be backed up by a trading diary. You should use your trading diary to document your trades as this can help you find out what’s working and what isn’t.You don’t only have to include the technical details, such as the entry and exit points of the trade, but also the rationale behind your trading decisions and emotions. If you deviate from your plan, write down why you did it and what the outcome was. The more detail in your diary, the better. I Hope you guys learned something new today✅ Wish you all Best Of Luck👍 😇And may the odds be always in your favor😇 Do you like this post? Do you want more articles like that?
Education
by ProSignalsFx
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✅. First short setup turned GOOD - Next move looks bullishMarket seems oversold after the rejection of the 200MA. It looks like we are in time for a few rally days! Bear market rallies are the strongest. Volatility whips both ways! Historical Precedent I wanted to share the 1990 precedent that I mentioned first during early May. I would like to point to the idea that we are quite short-term oversold (by looking at the speed and distance that we came down), so if you are short might be good idea to tighten stops, since we are likely to have a couple of rally days. Also to be clear, my personal guess (which not a tradable advice but just a gut feeling) is that we will not get the Easy Dollar Environment (EDE) so quickly like in 1990 but more like until end of the year. In the meantime I guess we would chop before a clear EDE in Oct-Jan.
SP:SPXLong
by TintinTrading
General Market commentYesterday I cut half of my open positions. Namely the digestion I was looking to get, in the obvious line of resistance (200DMA) is not acting as per model. Historical Precedent What is different is the way that the market digested the correction. I was expecting much more the a tight sideways digestion on low volume (green) but the action is not tight (purple). Now the low volume is there (red) ! However, this makes me much more cautious about the bullish scenario. The model we wanted was a much tighter action. Do not let low volume mislead you! Check out the correction in 2007. We started on low volume but then on the bottom the down volume picked up. To be honest we never really got to "panic" mode in this bear market. The PutCall, VIX - never really showed panic markers, on the top of that the meme stocks are breaking out. Point being is that it is not impossible to bottom without these but it is unlikely.
SP:SPXShort
by TintinTrading
GENERAL ELECTRIC:DETAILED FUNDAMENTAL ANALISYS-LONG SCENARIO 🔔General Electric was once a massive power producer. Back in 2017, turbine manufacturing was the company's biggest business. Then it all went downhill. A turbine design defect (now fixed) forced potential power producers to put their purchase plans on hold. And then clean natural gas power began to lose its popularity as alternatives to solar power became more affordable. GE's energy turbine revenues are now down to about half of their peak levels. This decline in sales has further trimmed the company's bottom line of profits. Investors should pay attention to the fact that the company is changing. This could be an indicator that GE's once-great energy business is slowly recovering. Of course, it's hard to distinguish between organic growth driven by increased demand and growth that is merely the mathematical result of last year's COVID-19-induced outages. For most companies, it's probably a mixture of both. For General Electric's power turbine business, however, it will likely be organic growth. Utility companies plan million-dollar investments years in advance and then maintain the purchased turbines for 20 years or more. The difficulties associated with time constraints designed to keep consumers at home are not a major hindrance to the power generation industry. Knowing this fact helps put the chart below in the right perspective. Last year's modest orders and revenues for GE's power division are not the result of the spread of the coronavirus. Rather, business began to decline in 2018 when several turbine blade failures took out too many GE-made gas turbines. General Electric quickly began responding, but its institutional customers were reluctant to do so until it became clear that the company's turbines would not fail for a long time. It's also naive to ignore the fact that around the same time that GE turbine blades began to fail, alternative energy sources were undergoing a real revolution, leading to a shift away from old technology and toward investment in cleaner, greener technologies. According to IHS Markit, the rate of annual photovoltaic panel installations more than doubled from 2015 to 2019, more than doubling global solar power capacity, according to the International Energy Agency. It would be surprising if General Electric's energy business didn't face obstacles. But take a closer look at the chart above. Specifically, note the fact that, at least, energy business revenues and orders stabilized in 2020 - despite the turbulence - during the recently ended quarter. Equipment orders also improved significantly in two of the last three quarters. That's a subtle hint that things are changing for the better, even if most investors don't see it yet. Of course, not losing ground is not necessarily the same as growing, and frankly, it could be years before GE's energy division approaches its glory days, when revenues of $8 billion and quarterly profits of a few hundred million dollars were the norm. But don't be too quick to dismiss the potential of this part of the company's business for several reasons. Foremost among them is that, as reliable as solar power is, it still faces the problem of a lack of overnight power generation. This problem is solved quite effectively with battery-based energy storage. However, this solution still lacks the "instant-on" capability that most power producers need, especially in the extreme heat of summer and the bitter cold of winter. A multifaceted power generation portfolio using all available options seems like the most plausible future. The second reason to expect demand for natural gas turbines in the foreseeable future is that the world is simply not ready for such a leap. In a long-term market forecast released last year, the U.S. Energy Information Administration predicts that by 2050, 36% of the nation's electricity will be generated by natural gas, just 1 percentage point less than 37% currently. That's despite the fact that renewables will likely double their current share of the nation's electricity production from 19% to 38% over the same 30-year period. And to the extent that there will be pressure for clean energy, GE's gas turbines can be made to run on hydrogen, which can be produced with minimal impact on the environment and - ultimately - produced economically. The company believes that all of its turbines can run on pure hydrogen within a few years, making the issue of natural gas's environmental impact moot. The fact of the matter is that it all shows up in numbers that the company tacitly discloses. As of the end of June, GE's backlog of energy equipment and services totaled $71.8 billion. That's more than four years ahead, not counting the new contracts signed during that time. Investors expecting GE's energy business to blossom overnight will be disappointed. The company's customers are not fast-moving consumers. Rather, they are corporations that can take months to decide to shell out millions for new equipment. But for long-term investors, the electric power industry offers an undervalued growth opportunity that is on par with GE's renewable energy and aviation businesses. This reinforces an already bullish position based on consistent cash flow growth, even if the company is slightly riskier than the average blue chip
NYSE:GELong
by FOREXN1
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Technical analysis update: GM (13th July 2021)GM did gap up (at the open) towards resistance when U.S. market opened on 9th July 2021. Today it held just below resistance and did not retrace its gap. RSI and Stochastics reversed to the bullish side. MACD is neutral. ADX is very low which suggests weak trend or no trend in GM. At the same time price retracement failed to occur. If retracement fails to occur in the following days then bullish case for GM is strongly bolstered (for short term). Our short term price target is 60 USD and our medium term price target is 65 USD. However, investors should pay attention to the price action in GM over the coming days as earning seasson begins and with it we may see increased volatility in the market. Current setup: Prior developements from 26th May 2021: Here we stated that GM entered rectangle formation. We correctly predicted breakout above resistance and subsequently reached price target of 60 USD and 62.50 USD. Disclaimer: This analysis is not intended to encourage buying or selling of any particular securities. Furthermore, it should not serve as basis for taking any trade action by individual investor. Your own due dilligence is highly advised before entering trade.
NYSE:GMLong
by Tradersweekly
LMT LONG/ Lockheed Martin is a giant of advanced defense industrIt is not a secret to anyone that Lockheed Martin participates in the production of the most important American warplanes, which are the backbone of the American air force, such as the F-22 and F-16 It produces the UGM-133A Trident II nuclear missile It is the most important line of US nuclear defense It produces many aircraft, missiles, advanced electronic systems and satellites And I think that this is the company with the unique technology that it owns. I expect it to continue going up and back to the technical analysis clearly rising. And financial analysis also gives a bullish signal By going back to history, you will notice that the company is a strongly bullish trend
NYSE:LMTLong
by TheMasons
#GeneralElectric #Turnaround after 20 years? #GE #GECI 👍 to Move it Move it; I 👍 to Move it Move it; I 👍 to Move it ---> You Move to? 👍 it! As it looks, General Electric's stock could turn around. Certainly, this is a process that does not happen overnight because of almost 20 years downward movement. But from a long term Investment perspective of 5-10 years, an entry could be exciting. After catastrophic Q.1 2020 and maybe slightly better Q.2 data comes on July 29, 2020, we should take a closer look at the stocks again. Many greetings from Hanover, Lower Saxony Stefan Bode Translated with www.DeepL.com (free version)
NYSE:GE
by StefanBode
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