Stage 2: Business of Investing

The essence of Stage 2 is that it requires an emotional and mental paradigm shift. It’s fine to view your investing as a hobby, but now I challenge you to embrace the mentality of a professional investor. Treat investing like a business.

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Tensile Trading: Stage #2 Finding Probability Points: Investing like a Business We investors are always searching for extra “probability points” which will increase the likelihood of us trading...

Olympic Caliber Investing I’ve been teaching college extension classes for over ten years, and I invariably see a disproportionate percentage...

My "Perfect" World Trading the stock market is not the blood sport that many in the press portray it to be. That sentiment is...

Wisdom, Fundamentals, Professionals

Gerald Loeb's Timeless Wisdom (1899-1974) I’m sure you’ve heard the expression, “the more things change, the more they stay the same.” Gerald Loeb used...

The 10 Essential Fundamentals for Both Car Enthusiasts and Investors To make a broad generalization, European cars lust after curvy roads. American cars are more about the power...

Two Traders Talk: Candid Insights Over Lunch Trading the markets is basically a solo adventure, and since the markets here in Seattle close at 1:00 PM...

What a Professional Investor Learned from 4 Professional Race Car Drivers I just spent a couple of days in Utah at Ford’s Performance Racing School being tutored by four highly accomplished...

Investorship, like Citizenship, Must Have Parameters “Friends don’t let friends drink and drive.” We have all been exposed to this public service advertisement...

Your Survival and Success As An Investor Depends On This “The way to pick an investor’s pocket is through the ear.” – Jason Zweig There is a direct correlation between an...

7 Reasons Why Investing/Trading is the Best Pastime in the World Trading the stock market is not the blood sport that many in the press portray it to be. That sentiment is...

Vacations and Boundaries

The World's Greatest Hobby: Trading in Hawaii I’m sitting on the lanai of a condo here at the Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii watching the sun peek above...

5 Rules for a Great Vacation What do screensavers look like for people who actually live in Hawaii? That’s a question I’ll ask next time I...

Ten Holiday Vacation Lessons from This Trader's Experience At this time of year, it’s one distraction wave after another. Admit it. Your investing efforts take a...AM

Get Inspired, Get Profitable, Get a Vacation It’s been my experience as a full-time trader over the decades that investing muscles need to take a vacation...

Do Investors Love Their Children Too? The Public Relations industry has crisis simulation firms that actually come into corporations and compress a...

Conferences and Networking

Why I Go To Investment Conferences I’m off to a conference this week for the International Federation of Technical Analysts (IFTA). Why am I...

Key Take-Aways from the 67th CFA Annual Conference: Part I During my investment life, I’ve attended well over 100 different conferences and seminars. The Chartered...

Key Take-Aways from the 67th CFA Annual Conference Part II In a previous blog, I labeled the four-day Global Chartered Financial Analysts event in Seattle as the ‘gold...

How I Get Re-Energized as an Investor Donald Trump was quoted as saying “Get going. Move forward. Aim high. Plan a takeoff. Change your...

How to Invest with Your Own Pit Crew You wouldn’t ever try to change the tires on a moving car, would you? You wouldn’t go to a dentist who hadn’t...

After 17 years, A Financial Journalist Discloses His "Top Investing Lesson" After seventeen years writing an investment column for USA Today, Matt Krantz is joining a money management firm and...

Climb a Mountain, Beat The Market: What The Mountaineers "Essential 10 Checklist" Can Teach You About Investing The mountaineers “Essential 10 Checklist” is seared into the memory of every serious hiker and climber. Why? Because...