Category Archives: Deconstructing A Trade

Deconstructing A Trade: Trade Like A Surgeon

Posted by Brian Lund in Deconstructing A Trade, Trading

It’s been a while since I have done one of my “Deconstructing A Trade” videos, but yesterday’s volatility served up a nice day trade that I wanted to break it down for ya.

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Deconstructing A Trade: How Evil Thoughts Can Ruin A Good Trade

Posted by Brian Lund in Deconstructing A Trade, Trading

Below is a video analysis of a trade in $MCP showing how changing my reasoning for entering the trade changed my management of the trade…..to my detriment.

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Deconstructing A Trade: Catching A Move In A Breakout Stock

Posted by Brian Lund in Deconstructing A Trade, Trading

A video showing the recent move in $NFLX and how you could have caught a nice trade in it even after it had broken out.

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Deconstructing A Trade: Managing A Target Trade

Posted by Brian Lund in Deconstructing A Trade

One of the toughest things about managing a trade to a target level is deciding when and if you need to close your position out early.  In this video we go through a trade and see what your options are for managing a target trade.

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Deconstructing A Trade: Staying In The Game.

Posted by Brian Lund in Deconstructing A Trade

A few weeks back I was fortunate enough to hear Howard Lindzon give a speech about his thoughts on successfully trading the markets.  One of his main points was “staying in the game.”

In the context of his speech it meant making sure you were risk averse enough so that you could whether bad trades, in order to stick around for winning trades that would eventually come.  But as I thought about it more, I realized that “staying in the game” can also apply to trading in a micro way as the following video illustrates.

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Deconstructing A Trade: The Magical NR7 Bar.

Posted by Brian Lund in Deconstructing A Trade, Trading

A Trade in $AAPL that was based upon an NR7 bar entry.

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Deconstructing A Trade: Using Pivot Points

Posted by Brian Lund in Deconstructing A Trade, Trading

Using pivot points to find a target in a $PANL short trade.

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Deconstructing A Trade: Buying A Down Open & Raising Stops.

Posted by Brian Lund in Deconstructing A Trade, Trading

The market has been repeating a pattern over the last few weeks.  When there is a sharp drop at the open, it has been met with dip buyers who drive price back up to new highs.  In this video we look as how you could have used that pattern to get long in $AAPL, and how to manage the stops along the way.

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Deconstructing A Trade: Changing Time Frames.

Posted by Brian Lund in Deconstructing A Trade, Trading

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Deconstructing A Trade: Slow And Steady Is Still Profitable.

Posted by Brian Lund in Deconstructing A Trade, Trading

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