How To Trade When Everything is Moving

04/07/25 • 45 min

You're trading a strategy - you're comfortable with the number of trades. And then BOOM - one day the entire market is moving and your system generates 10x the number of trades it normally does.

How do you react? Michael and I discussed the first time this happened to me and how best to respond to prepare for the next time.

You're trading a strategy - you're comfortable with the number of trades. And then BOOM - one day the entire market is moving and your system generates 10x the number of trades it normally does.

How do you react? Michael and I discussed the first time this happened to me and how best to respond to prepare for the next time.

Previous Episode

Do You Chase Trading Perfection?

Do you let the quest for perfection get in the way of trading success? It's more common than you might think. We discuss where this tendency comes from and how to let go of it to make progress in your trading.

"From the surface, every rabbit hole looks like a pile of money." - Dave

Here's a link to the book Michael mentioned: Golf Is Not A Game Of Perfect

The Monkey Trap via Robin Hanson.

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Turning A Trading Weakness into an Advantage

We discuss how Dave turned a trader's frustrating bad habit into a positive workflow for creating new trading edge. This is a great case study for the power of a positive mindset and a desire to get better.

Line Your Own Pockets - How To Trade When Everything is Moving

Transcript

Michael00:00:00.479

Okay, everyone. Welcome to another episode of Align Your Own Pockets. In this episode, we're actually taking a conversation that me and Dave was having offline and just one of those, Hey, we should turn on the cameras and the microphone and talk to everybody about this because I proposed a question to to Dave, and it'll be interesting to talk through the solution. So what I do with my own trading and because it's swing trading and investing and all