THE RESPONSIBLE TRADER – EXPERT’S OPINION I was browsing through my News Feed when I saw a Screenshot of “Rooting for Celeste”, showing that the words in her Blog have been converted into words that looked like program developer’s scripts indicating that the Blog has either been hacked or has completely gone out of circulation. Please see Figure 1 […]
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THE RESPONSIBLE TRADER – TRADING LESSONS – GENERAL APPROACHES FOR CHOOSING STOCKS The first step in Swing Trading is choosing the stocks we intend to trade. There are two general approaches for doing this — The Top-Down and the Bottom-up. Let us discuss both in terms of general applications and then to specific applications to the Philippine stock market. […]
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THE RESPONSIBLE TRADER – TRT@68 – 19-09-2019 BLESSINGS AND GRACES As I celebrate my 68th birthday today, I continue to acknowledge and express my appreciation and gratitude for all the blessings and graces i have received in my life: A loving, caring, understanding and very supportive wife who is always with me through thick and thin – 38 years of […]
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THE RESPONSIBLE TRADER – ON ELLIOTT WAVE NO. 7? I was reading my News Feed the other day and I saw a post from a member of a Facebook Trading Group about Elliott Wave No. 7. Yesterday, I saw a post from another Facebook Trading Group reacting to the post to the point of mockery. Some even referred to them […]
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Responsible Trading – Always Do Your Best, Leave to God the Rest We, Filipinos, are known for the “Bahala Na” attitude, loosely translated into a come what may attitude. Many Filipino theologians including F. Landa Jocano have studied this attitude extensively and have come to the conclusion that it has both negative and positive connotations. Actually the words are […]
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RESPONSIBLE TRADING – FINDING PURPOSE ON THE 64th You might be wondering about the title of this article and the Chess Diagram above. Actually aside from trading and martial arts my other passion in life is Chess. I used to play as a Member of the Elizalde Chess Team during the Manila Industrial and Commercial Championships and […]
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VOH – Victims of Hype – Part 3 – From Victims to Victors Now that we understand the Hype Cycle we are in a better position to address the problem. As we previously stated we prefer to fix the problem rather than point the blame. Pointing the blame to the Hypers would just be making the apparent obvious. Pointing […]
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VOH – Victims of Hype – Part 1 Most of the time, we have been approached to help traders whose trading accounts are either “IPIT” (trading account caught in a bad position) or “SUNOG” (trading account burned) saying that they got into the situation because they are VOH – Victims of Hype. We would like to state that […]
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What’s in a name? A name is supposed to bear a person or an entity’s character. This is the reason why names are carefully chosen so they could stand out from the crowd, to make one unique, and survive as a brand. I was doing a Google Search on “The Responsible Trader” to find out if I was already able […]
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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and I am flattered that while browsing the net somebody has already copied my name “The Responsible Trader” and even “The Responsible Traders Creed” which I have posted on my thread “The Responsible Trader” in Stock Market Pilipinas (www.stockmarketpilipinas.com), although he was also kind enough to acknowledge the source. Imitation is the […]
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