Day Trading for Beginners: The 5 Mistakes That Blow Up New Traders
Last updated: 3 July 2026 · By Spencer Li, CFTeNew day traders lose to professionals for five repeatable reasons, and none of them is a lack of talent. They trade without…
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There is a common fallacy amongst many investors that because you cannot time the exact market tops and market bottoms in the stock market, therefore you cannot time the market at all, and market timing should be avoided.This is…
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Quite often, when we dive into the financial market, we find that there is simply too much market news. When we try to trade the news, we have no idea what is important or trivial, because we are so overloaded with information. This makes…
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Prior to the launch of the program, I ran it through some friends and volunteers to get their feedback, and this provided me idea on how to tweak and improve the program to cater to both complete newbies and experienced traders. For now, I have yet to release this program to the public. Feedback “This […]
Discipline ‘key to success in trading’ Last week, I was interviewed by Teh Shi Ning, one of the reporters from the Business Times, to share my trading journey and his success story. “Having spent over 7 […]
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Photo with Lee Lung Nien, COO of Citibank Singapore This year, it was once again a gruelling tough battle at the Citbank Forex Challenge. There were over 300+ teams, and only 48 made it to the finals. I am proud to announce that 4 of the 8 teams from my round that made it to […]
Today, I was invited as a guest speaker to give a talk at 2009 AGM of STATS (Singapore Technical Analysts & Traders Society) on the “Strategic Outlook for 2010”. Before the talk, there was a poll, and it seemed that the general consensus is for a correction in the medium term. Here also some of […]
This event was held in SMU, and saw professionals and student flying in from all over the world to attend talks and networking sessions with a variety of renowed industry speakers. After 3 days of talks and workshops, the event culminated in a memorable networking dinner and social drinking session in a professional setting. It […]
