- DON’T GAMBLE
- Be patient – wait for opportunities
- Trade on your own ideas and style
- Never trade impulsively, especially on other people’s advice
- Don’t risk too much on one event or company
- Stay focused, especially when the markets are moving
- Listen to the market, not outside opinions
- Think trades though, including profits/loss exit points, before you put them on
- If you are unsure about a position, just get out
- Force yourself to trade against the consensus
- Trade pattern recognition
- Prices move before fundamentals
- Admit when you’re wrong
- You will be wrong often, recognize winners and losers fast
- Start each day from last night’s close, not your original cost
- Adding to losers is easy but usually wrong
- Force yourself to buy on extreme weakness and sell on extreme high
- Short a big gap down
TRADING RULES

