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Moving Averages Keep Simple New traders love filling their charts with indicators while we prefer to keep it simpleFor s...
09/03/2026

Moving Averages Keep Simple

New traders love filling their charts with indicators while we prefer to keep it simple

For swing trading, two of the most important moving averages on our charts are:

🔴 5 EMA — Short-Term Momentum
We want our swing trades trading above the 5 EMA. As a stock trends higher, the 5 EMA can act as support and help us determine when momentum may be changing.

🟢 200 EMA — The Line in the Sand
The 200 EMA gives us a quick look at the stock’s longer-term health. Generally, we want to focus our attention on stocks trading ABOVE it.

Our basic checklist:

Above the 200 EMA? âś…
Above the 5 EMA? âś…
Moving averages curling higher? âś…
Clean setup forming? đź‘€

Moving averages don’t predict what a stock will do next. They give us another layer of probability when evaluating a setup.

The goal isn’t to have 10 indicators telling you 10 different things.

Simplify your chart. Understand the trend. Manage your risk.

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The best traders aren’t focused on being right every time — they’re focused on managing risk when they’re wrong.The Art ...
09/01/2026

The best traders aren’t focused on being right every time — they’re focused on managing risk when they’re wrong.

The Art of the Trail is about learning how to protect your capital without cutting your winners short.

Whether you’re trailing the prior day’s low, the 5 EMA, or weekly candles, the objective stays the same:

Cut losers. Protect profits. Let winners run.

You don’t need every trade to work. You need a system that keeps the bad trades small and gives the great ones room to pay you.

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08/31/2026

New traders often overlook the long-term value of IPOs. Rushing into volatile tech stocks can be costly, as many take years to recover previous highs. Understanding this patience is crucial for sustainable growth. Learn more by hitting the link in bio.

Most traders don’t fail because they can’t find winning stocks.They fail because they let losing trades get too expensiv...
08/31/2026

Most traders don’t fail because they can’t find winning stocks.

They fail because they let losing trades get too expensive.

That’s why one of the most important lessons I learned early in my trading career was the 15 Minute Rule.

If you wake up and a stock is gapping below your stop, don’t panic and blindly dump the position at the opening bell.

Cancel the stop before the open.

Let the first 15-minute candle close.

See where the stock establishes its new low.

Then reassess the trade and adjust your risk accordingly.

Sometimes you’ll still take the loss.

But other times, those first 15 minutes allow the emotional selling to shake out and give you an opportunity to turn what could have been a much larger loss into a smaller loss, breakeven trade, or even a winner.

The goal isn’t to avoid losses.

The goal is to keep your losses small enough that you can stay in the game long enough for your winners to matter.

It’s a seat belt, not a parachute.

đź“– The 15 Minute Rule chapter can be found ironically in chapter 15 of the Dumb Money book on Amazon

08/31/2026

LYV is approaching all-time highs, signaling a potential 'blue sky breakout.' This video outlines a strategy to buy at new highs and effectively manage risk. If you're looking to deepen your trading knowledge, the link in bio has more.

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Discover potential trading opportunities in Clorox stock. This guide outlines key entry and exit points, detailing the associated risk and reward for informed decision-making. For more in-depth trading education, hit the link in bio.

When to take profits from a swing trade?Buying a stock is easy but knowing when to take profits is the hard part for mos...
08/30/2026

When to take profits from a swing trade?

Buying a stock is easy but knowing when to take profits is the hard part for most

Most traders make the same mistake, they have a plan for getting into a trade, but no plan for getting out.

So when the stock goes up, greed takes over and they don’t sell then when it comes back down and becomes a loss, they wish they’d sold

Our solution is simple and repeatable which we refer to as Kick, Kick, Kick

Let’s say you buy a stock at $100 with a stop at $98.

Your risk = $2 per share

Instead of waiting and hoping for one huge winner, we can systematically take small pieces off as the trade works:

đź’° Sell 10% at 2:1 risk/reward at $104
đź’° Sell 10% at 3:1 at $106
đź’° Sell 10% at 4:1 at $108
đź’° Sell 10% at 5:1 at $110

Then hold the remaining 50% of the position if the stock turns into a big winner.

The reason is simple, every trade isn’t going to become a massive winner, quite frankly we often find a small handful of big winners each year, while the rest are either small losses, break even loss or tiny winners

By taking profits along the way, you’re paying for the trade and reducing the amount of your original risk that’s still exposed in the current trade

In the chapter, we walk through a trade in Walmart, where we bought the breakout through $100, risked roughly $1, and kicked out portions of the position as it moved toward resistance. When WMT couldn’t continue through the next major level, we raised our stop and protected the profit instead of giving the trade back.

Make selling repeatable instead of regrettable since some stocks you sell will keep ripping higher and that’s okay because you still have some of your position left

The goal is to build a process you can repeat across hundreds of trades

Bruce Lee said he feared the man who practiced one kick 10,000 times

Trading is no different and if you can master this simple process and then repeat it, you will be miles ahead of most traders

To learn more about this trading set up in detail grab a copy of the Big Picture Trading Dumb Money book on Amazon and flip to chapter 19 to learn more about taking profits

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Discover a smart way to approach trading XMTR. The key is patience: wait for the break of previous highs for a much cleaner entry point. This strategic approach can make all the difference in your trading journey. Want to dive deeper? Find the link in bio to learn more.

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