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Everyone wants to catch a trend early. Few understand how to re-enter a strong trend after it's already established. Shake Pryzby developed the 'first test of the 20-day EMA' as a powerful buy signal. Once a stock has a significant advance, its first pullback and hold of the 20-day EMA often indicates a low-risk entry to ride the continued momentum. Respect the first pullback.
TraderLion25,237 Aufrufe • vor 18 Tagen
Most traders chase hot stocks. Clement Ang identifies winners by applying relative strength after character change. He demonstrated this with his UCT trade, spotting low supply and a shift in market behavior. This allowed him to enter a winning position early. Strength appears with change.
TraderLion12,711 Aufrufe • vor 9 Tagen
Most traders panic on gap-downs and get stopped out immediately. Brian Shannon teaches a method for avoiding premature stop-outs by observing post-gap price action. This allows you to differentiate between a temporary dip and a true breakdown, potentially saving profitable positions. Observe before you react.
TraderLion19,455 Aufrufe • vor 15 Tagen
Most traders obsess over their win rate. Minervini doesn't. He explains why you can strike out seven out of ten times and still win -- as long as the math on risk-reward works in your favor over hundreds of trades. The holy grail isn't a setup. It's asymmetry.
TraderLion113,789 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten
Most traders have no rule for when a loser leaves the portfolio. The average winner held 8 days, the average loser gone in 24 hours — that asymmetry is the whole game. Ariel Hernandez anchors this framework with a Dan Zanger quote and builds it into something concrete: use the average as your stop after a 6–7% move, and let the math do the rest. Winners run. Losers get cut before they can argue back.
TraderLion72,735 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten
Mark Minervini doesn't fight the tape -- even with a 33,500% career return. He explains why even an A+ setup fails 70-80% of the time in the wrong market -- and why the best traders sit out more than they trade. The market decides your win rate. Not your chart.
TraderLion80,127 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten
$NVDA down 20% from highs. $MU down 20% after blowout earnings. Both stories are intact -- but oversized holders aren't sleeping. Jim Roppel learned this with 3X leverage on 3 stocks: "Price will hurt you, but size will kill you." His max today is 18% in one name. The stock can be right and the position can still destroy you.
TraderLion74,072 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten
Ariel Hernandez reveals how to identify future market leaders: pay close attention to stocks that hold up or trade sideways during market corrections. This resilience indicates strong underlying demand and institutional support. These are the names poised to lead the next big market move. It's a critical skill for systematically spotting the next cycle's top performers.
TraderLion13,105 Aufrufe • vor 16 Tagen
Chris Camillo, the Market Wizard who turned $83K into $60M+ through informational arbitrage, is sitting on what he calls the trade of his life. Three hundred and fifty hours of humanoid robotics research, with aggressive long positions in Tesla, Figure AI, and Apptronik. He frames it the same way he framed the Tesla EV trade ten years ago. One discovery, acted on early. The full thesis is in his TraderLion interview.
TraderLion38,228 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
Everyone fears corrections. Clement Ang sees them as the best buying opportunities in a bull market for 3 key reasons. First, leaders diverge and show strength. Second, 'weak hands' get cleared out, leaving a cleaner market. Third, the 'spring effect' brings a strong snap-back. These are ideal conditions for the next leg up. Corrections reset opportunity.
TraderLion12,106 Aufrufe • vor 18 Tagen
Most traders freeze after three consecutive gap-down days. Martin Luk -- the 2025 U.S. Investing Champion who returned +969% -- was begging for one more. He watched the market hit panic mode, spotted TQQ at 20% below the hourly EMA, and bought the reversal off one-minute opening range highs. His best trade of the entire year came from the worst week. The bottom doesn't announce itself. It disgusts you into showing up.
TraderLion48,377 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten
Most swing traders size off a daily chart stop. That wide stop forces a small position to keep risk in check. Shake drops to the 30-minute chart for the entry. The stop tightens, and the math allows three times the shares on the identical risk budget. Same trade idea, same dollar risk — the only difference is where you measured your stop.
TraderLion31,856 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
Tighten the stop, size up. That isn't aggressive risk-taking; it's the actual math of R-multiple position sizing. Brian Shannon walks through it on TraderLion. The originator of Anchored VWAP and a 35-year professional trader breaks down how a $100K account with $1,000 max risk gets 4,000 shares on a 25-cent stop and only 1,000 shares on a one-dollar stop. His honesty test: is your tight stop a real higher low, or a number you picked so you can size up?
TraderLion22,888 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
The 7-8% stop rule sounds disciplined until it keeps kicking you out of your best trades. Vibha Jha — who built her track record trading leveraged ETFs and leading growth stocks — found that rigid percentage stops ignored what the chart was actually saying. Switching to the 10-week moving average as her stop level changed her results immediately. The chart knows more than the percentage does.
TraderLion34,073 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten
Being up 300% in a year doesn't earn you special status -- not to the person who matters most. Jim Roppel bragged to Bill O'Neill at the Ronald Reagan Library. O'Neill's reply: "We all put our pants on one leg at a time." One sentence. Permanent recalibration. Humility outlasts every hot streak.
TraderLion30,348 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten
A tight area on a chart is not automatically worth trading. The setup needs to pass a checklist first. Richard breaks it down into four filters: a compelling fundamental story, relative strength during the base, confluence with a key technical level, and inside days compressing volatility to a decision point. All four together is a high-conviction entry. Missing pieces means cutting size — not skipping the trade, but respecting the difference in quality.
TraderLion26,763 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
Mastering the math of position sizing by capping initial risk at exactly 0.4% to 0.5% is the key to executing stress-free add-on buys. Marios Stamatoudis, a disciplined breakout trader known for his strict mathematical approach to risk management, details his precise framework for scaling into winning stocks. By taking strategic early partial profits, traders completely neutralize their initial downside and create the opportunity for a free-roll add, effectively using the market's money to finance a much larger position. Keep risk mathematically small at the initial entry so you can safely bet big when the primary trend is entirely in your favor.
TraderLion19,154 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat
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TraderLion94,605 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr
$13K left in the account. $12K borrowed against credit cards. A $25K minimum at the prop firm. That's how Brian Shannon started his real career on a 20-to-1 leverage trading floor, right after Chantal Pharmaceutical had nearly wiped him out. The founder of says every age has its own math for risk, and at 25 with no kids, betting on himself was the right call. Premiering now on YouTube:
TraderLion21,467 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten