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    September 26, 2022

    Coach’s Roundtable: FOMC Fallout & Resilient Market Sectors

    Every week, the coaches at Prosper Trading Academy offer their insight on some of the most challenging questions covering recent stock market developments, trading tips, and relevant news stories. This week, Scott Bauer, Charlie Moon, and Mike Shorr give their thoughts on why certain stock market sectors are staying resilient amid the FOMC fallout, and […]

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    September 16, 2022

    Coach’s Roundtable: Making Up Major Losses

    Every week, the coaches at Prosper Trading Academy offer their insight on some of the most challenging questions covering recent stock market developments, trading tips, and relevant news stories. This week, Scott Bauer, Charlie Moon, and Mike Shorr cover this week’s CPI report and other future events that could impact the market, along with ways […]

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    August 26, 2022

    Coach’s Roundtable: Stock Market Indexes & Trading Fixes

    Every week, the coaches at Prosper Trading Academy offer their insight on some of the most challenging questions covering recent stock market developments, trading tips, and relevant news stories. This week, Scott Bauer, Charlie Moon, and Mike Shorr touch on the best stock market indexes to follow and common issues they notice among struggling traders. […]

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    June 8, 2020

    How to Calculate Profit and Loss for a Broken Wing Butterfly

    When a new trader hears the term “broken wing butterfly” it tends to send shivers down his or her spine.  The term sounds really complicated.   It does not have to be.  If you break down the components of a bwf, you will see that it is simply buying one vertical spread and selling a narrower […]

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    May 11, 2020

    Other Contingency Orders On ThinkOrSwim

    One of the things you will hear me harp over and over again is to mitigate and manage risk. What if you are trading in the room but have to run off to a meeting? I cannot promise that this is fail-proof, but there is a solution. You can place a limit entry order and […]

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    May 7, 2020

    I am an Options Day Trader!!! Now What???

    The biggest indicator for the success of a trader in all of my years of training clerks, junior traders, senior traders, and my current students is this.  Their inability or unwillingness to realize a loss and to manage their risk responsibly.  Here is a very straightforward lesson on how to do that.  The rest is […]

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    May 6, 2020

    The Important Concept of Expected Value

    Many traders look at their win to loss rate when evaluating their trading.  This is an important concept, if you are right way more than you are wrong, you probably are not going to enjoy much success.  But, many are missing one part of the puzzle, expected value.  Not only IF you are right or […]

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    April 13, 2020

    The Important Concept of Expected Value

    Many traders look at their win to loss rate when evaluating their trading.  This is an important concept, if you are right way more than you are wrong, you probably are not going to enjoy much success.  But, many are missing one part of the puzzle, expected value.  Not only IF you are right or […]

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    March 19, 2020

    The Important Concept of Expected Value

    Many traders look at their win to loss rate when evaluating their trading.  This is an important concept, if you are right way more than you are wrong, you probably are not going to enjoy much success.  But, many are missing one part of the puzzle, expected value.  Not only IF you are right or […]

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    March 19, 2020

    How to Calculate Profit and Loss for a Broken Wing Butterfly

    When a new trader hears the term “broken wing butterfly” it tends to send shivers down his or her spine.  The term sounds really complicated.   It does not have to be.  If you break down the components of a bwf, you will see that it is simply buying one vertical spread and selling a narrower […]

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