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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.
TraderLion112,845 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce
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.
TraderLion72,555 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce
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.
TraderLion31,765 görüntüleme • 26 gün önce
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.
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$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.
TraderLion71,617 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce
$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 görüntüleme • 23 gün önce
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.
TraderLion26,604 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce
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.
TraderLion48,065 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce
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.
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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.
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Micron was one of Minervini's first buys coming out of the correction -- and a textbook VCP. He breaks down the exact entry, the progressive adds, and why volume contraction with stacked moving averages was the signal to go. The setup told the story. He just listened.
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Stanley Druckenmiller walking through the Teva Pharmaceuticals trade he made at 6x earnings while AI was heating up in 2023 — a textbook example of his rule: contrarianism is overrated, but extreme conviction when no one else believes is where the money is made:
TraderLion20,991 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce
Phil Goedeker graduated with a million dollars and thought he'd hit four million by summer. The 20-year trading veteran -- featured in Jack Schwager's upcoming Market Wizards -- lost $500K in three months when the market changed. That day he wired $400K to the bank and traded with $100K. He's wired out every single month for twenty years since.
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Most traders run five hundred names through a screener and wonder why they can't execute. Mark Minervini's challenge: give him any parameters -- any universe, any criteria -- and he'll make money in that narrow window. Having a strategy means having long stretches where you don't participate.
TraderLion27,094 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce
Every relief rally produces a new wave of dip-buyers loading up on the worst charts in the market. The 50-day is broken, the group is weak, the bounces fail on declining volume. But it's "cheap" relative to three months ago so they keep buying. Stan Weinstein has watched this destroy accounts for 50 years. Bargain hunting in Stage 4 is the most expensive habit in trading.
TraderLion26,441 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce
He blew up his account 3 times before managing $200M+. His wife looked at their tax returns and told him to go to law school. Tomorrow we release our full in-person interview with James Roppel — hedge fund manager, growth stock legend, and student of Bill O'Neil. Here's a sneak peek 👇
TraderLion26,677 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce
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TraderLion94,561 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce
NEW podcast dropping this Saturday Phil Goedeker turned $5K into over $50M — mostly as a short seller. He's featured in the upcoming Market Wizards book by Jack Schwager and has been trading for over 20 years. We go deep on his A+ setups, extreme risk management, and the mindset that kept him going through it all. Here's a sneak peek of the full episode 👇
TraderLion28,509 görüntüleme • 3 ay önce