Aaron Lynch

Trading as a Business with Safety in the Market

One of the best things I learned in my Safety in the Market education was to treat trading as a business.It sounds simple but it is a key difference in the mindset between successful and unsuccessful traders. Before starting up any business it is alway... Read >

Stop loss Strategies for Market Traders

In all forms of long-term investing and short-term trading, deciding the appropriate time to exit a position is just as important as, if not more important than, determining the best time to enter into your position. Getting into the market is the easiest... Read >

The Need for a Trading Plan

For you to trade profitably, you start with your plan. To build your house, you start with your plan. To make a movie, you start with your plan. To create a garden, a car, a book, a computer, in fact anything - you start with your plan. Check out all succ... Read >

How to Assess the Strength of a Sector

Developing the knack for picking the right stocks to place trades is a difficult task to say the least. Even if you pick the best company, if your timing stinks, you still won’t do well. To enhance your timing, it’s vitally important to get a sense of how... Read >

The Importance for Market Traders in Understanding that History Repeats

Reprinted from the Ticker and Investment Digest in December 1909 “Mr. Gann was born in Lufkin, Texas, and is thirty-one years of age. He is a gifted mathematician, has an extraordinary memory for figures and is an expert tape reader. Take away his sc... Read >

Back-testing a Market - The Why’s, Where’s and How’s

One of the most common questions I get asked by new participants to the markets is where to get started? Assuming you have developed a plan then the next most useful step is to start testing your system on historical data also known as back-testing. The p... Read >