By Spencer Li, CFTe · Last updated: 26 October 2026 You cannot buy the exact market bottom or sell the exact top, but you can time your entries and exits well enough to lower your risk and get a better average price. The trick is to give up the top 1/8 and the bottom 1/8 […]
By Spencer Li, CFTe · Last updated: 26 October 2026 When there is too much market news, the answer is to stop trading the news and start filtering it with two rules. First, separate facts from opinions, so you anchor on the raw data and trust only a handful of analysts for the views built […]
By Spencer Li, CFTe · Last updated: 26 October 2026 In a market crash, whether you sell everything or hold on should be decided by your portfolio strategy, and never by the headlines or the knot in your stomach. If you invest passively, a crash changes nothing and the plan carries on. If you invest […]
By Spencer Li, CFTe · Last updated: 26 October 2026 For most retail traders, the best way to trade a fast market is to stay out of it, let the dust settle, and trade the calmer setups that form afterwards. If you do want to trade the fast move itself, there are only two basic […]
By Spencer Li, CFTe · Last updated: 26 October 2026 Making more trades does not usually make you more money. In the best-known study on this, the households that traded most earned 11.4% a year after costs, while the market returned 17.9%. Before costs, their picks did about as well as those of the households […]