It's wise to use a circuit breaker to determine if you put a trade on or not. 

One way to do that is to measure the volatility of the instrument in question. 

Many traders use the 20-Day ATR for that measurement. 

With Gold's volatility at $50, and the contract being 100 troy ounces, you're looking at $5,000 of daily volatility. 

If that's equal to your risk unit of 1/2 of 1%, then you need a $1,000,000 account to trade 1 COMEX Gold contract. 

Listen and see why you might not want to trade this contract using a tighter stop than $50.

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I like my clients and students to have trading goals. Not just in terms of Rate of Return, but also about the endeavor overall. 

How do you want your trading to serve you? What purpose does it fulfill in your life?

If you have a family, is it to provide for your kids' educations since college degrees are running as much as $300k per student. 

Do you or will you you have to help a parent out in their retirement, besides saving for your own?

I have seen my students performance greatly improve when they set goals around what they want their trading to do for them. 

Even getting a clearer picture yields results in this manner. 

You've heard it a million times, you get what you think about.

Make sure you have a clear vision of what your want because your thoughts become things. 

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In times like these, it's not too difficult to get stuck into the thinking that the struggle won't end. It will, but it's anyone's guess as to when. 

I like to advocate that that you focus on what you can control: "Control the control-ables," as it's said. 

That's why it's important to have goals - goals that you create around your personal trading or pro trading career. 

As I've mentioned before, knowledge isn't enough. If you set goals and work towards them, you'll grow as a person. 

Measure your activity and progress and when you look back in 3-4 months, you'll be able to see progress.

That can be very motivating during trying times and boost your mental health and energy. 

You can use this to motivate you to do the work today in order to become the vision you have for yourself in the future. 

Thoughts become things. 

Put those things in your consciousness and focus on what you want, not what you don't have. 

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Taking a "time-out" isn't quitting. It's taking a moment to re-evaluate things in the short term. 

It gives you a chance to get your feet underneath you, take a breather, and come back to the market with a fresh head and outlook. 

Keep in mind, you may be down slightly but as frustrating as it might be, your results might be "in model." Take some solace in that.

Being "in model" means that your current results might be within the parameters of your backtesting. 

Just like me, the guys in Market Wizards, and anyone else who's survived several decades of trading, you are going to fail your way to YOUR top and high level of success. 

Trade small, do whatever you need to keep your mental health in order, and remember this is a marathon. 

You might be one small tweak from great success, but you have to be in the game for that to happen.

Reach out to me if you are stuck.

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You may find that the 80/20 Rule shows up in your returns or from a specific trading strategy, but it may also show up in your work ethic. 

We think about these things so that we can have a high quality of life for all the work that we put in to our trading. 

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V-Bottoms can evolve into Head and Shoulders or Cup and Handles for example. Being ready for either can mean more profits for you and less losses. 

Learn to anticipate these pattern transitions if you don't have a trading engine or simulator and you're trying to do it by hand. It will save you a lot of time and effort. 

If you don't have a plan, volatility does not necessarily mean opportunity. You have to have a plan and you have to have a trading edge. 

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Please email me with any questions or if you are stuck on something. You can reach me through MartinKronicle.com. 

I've been doing everything I can to keep my spirits up during the quarantine. 

It's not easy...

I'm going for long walks, meditating, doing yoga, avoiding MSM, and calling a different group of friends each day. 

I'm taking drives with no particular destination to get out of the house...

There are no rules here - do whatever you need to do to keep your head together. 

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Once you learn about the various asset classes and trading styles, you have to find the "suit" that fits you best. 

That comes by asserting yourself and taking smart chances. 

You have to learn to bridge what's called the "Knowing-Doing" gap and I think that is more easily done if you have a goal that you want to achieve by the "Doing."

The knowledge or the learning will definitely get you part of the way towards that goal, but you're going to learn the most by the "Doing" as that's where you engage your emotional makeup and trader psychology. 

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When investors and traders are scared and are in fear of losing money, they return to the market by buying names they know and understand. Take advantage of this by trading big brands. Speculative names don't make the best speculative trades.

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If you plunge, you can become married to a price and become reluctant to offset the risk if it goes against you. Break up your capital - it forces you to trade smaller which is good, especially when volatility has expanded and small positions can still create large swings in your account balance. 

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