While I will … from time to time, pull up a “chart” to look over event triggers, or perhaps the range and structures of an asset?
I maintain the belief that trading does not take place on charts. At all.
Trading takes place in your thought process. In the ability to manage an iterative process. Trading actually begins, with what you believe, may be occurring in any particular capital market.
So perhaps the first thing new and aspiring traders should begin with? Is looking past the stock trading charts and they believe the ‘best entry’ is on a stock for a trade? And start thinking about what is actually happening … out here in the real world, with an asset.
Start asking questions.
Which we muse, with the first entry of our “Brief Thoughts on Markets” entry, with … the “Sin” Stocks …
You can find the video as below on YouTube, and is available in many other video venues (Vimeo, Odysee, etc)
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