By Mark D Wolfinger
Principles that enhance your decision-making strategy while buying and selling. increase a frame of mind that results in more-profitable trades and keep away from time-honored mindsets utilized by much less winning investors.
Some appear noticeable. despite the fact that, others could appear to be opposed to logic. imagine via those principles and they're going to make experience. They paintings for me and that i belief they're going to be just right for you.
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That’s fine as long as your rationale is based on logic and not on the assumption that your current way of thinking has to be correct. Please pay attention to the warning: ‘the greatest risk of all’ in Chapter 1 and do not discard it by thinking that it does not apply to you. Take the lesson in each chapter as a strong suggestion. Think about it. Decide whether it applies to you and whether you can live with it. If it feels so wrong that you cannot adopt it, then you will have made a decision based on something other than grabbing onto the obvious.
The best compromise between risk and reward is to trade weekly iron condors in small size. It is not smart to take too much risk when the chances of something bad happening are so high. Yet, the rewards are attractive (6 to 8% per week is a reasonable target) that anyone who has the time to monitor the position should think about trading these negative-gamma trades. They are not suitable for everyone. There is more on Weeklys in Chapter 7. CHAPTER 3 TRADER MINDSETS Potential traders are human and when they undertake anything new—including trading—they come to the table with certain preconceived notions or habits, which I’ll refer to as mindsets.
Thus, I added weekly expiration plays to my repertoire. It was important to gather information, gain trade experience, and decide whether I could help traders earn money with weekly expirations. I overcame a strong mindset by looking at the bigger picture. You can do the same. In Chapter 7, we’ll take a closer look at trading weekly iron condors. The Winning Mindset Luck vs. skill: A trader must have confidence in his/her ability to make good decisions under duress. ’ A proven track record of profitable trades is ideal.