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Soft Commodities are Shaping Up
/by Peter BrandtMany of the Soft Commodities are Shaping Up well and starting to show constructive charts. These include Corn, Sugar, Soybean Oil and Milling Wheat.
Thought’s of a Full Time Trader
/by Peter BrandtFrom our Member Q&A archives we believe you will find interesting. How should a part-time trader manage what can be a full-time job trading to be successful. How does Peter manage his trading schedule?
ABX Could be Leading Gold
/by Peter BrandtThe daily graph on ABX (Barrick Gold) displays a possible 7-week continuation H&S pattern. Price broke out of this H&S on Friday, triggering a potential target on ABX of $18.14.
All Fired Up
/by Peter BrandtThis will be on the 2018 Best Dressed List. The daily continuation graph fro Natural Gas displays a possible half-mast coil with a target of 6.1xx.
Industrials Softening
/by Peter BrandtSome Industrials are acting soft here. For Copper, a decisive decline below 264 would complete a H&S failure pattern with a target of 235. I believe that the decline on Friday was a Wyckoff Sign of Weakness day – and Friday’s high should not be penetrated. I am willing to short Copper if the market provides a measured-risk opportunity.
Being Wrong or Getting Stopped out of a Trade is Fine
/by Peter BrandtGetting stopped out of a trade only to have it work
I receive many inquiries from Factor Members on the subject of getting stopped out of a trade only to have it turn around immediately and work. This has happened to me hundreds of times over the years. Does it bother me?
NO!
It once did – but I matured as a trader. Getting Stopped out of a trade only to have it work is the price to pay for protecting trading capital. It comes with the territory. It is the cost of being a
good risk manager. I put getting stopped into the following perspective:
• The overwhelming proportion of my net profits as a career trader have come from trades that never experienced