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Cydney o ’sullivan (Personal Trader) ´ k im reilly (Psychology / Options)
Jody elliss (SPI Futures & CFDs) ´ lyn summers (StockCourse Founder)
John x (Options Trader) ´ Peter elsworth (E-minis Trader)
John howell (Day & Night Trader) ´ bryan Cronyn (Swing Trader)
4 The essential qualit ies and traits of top stock market traders4 All of the various investment strategies and which one is right for you
4 Technical versus Fundamental – which is really better and why4 How to make money whether the stock market is going up or down
4 Why it pays to think globally and which are the best markets to trade4 How to master the psychological side of stock market trading
4 The expert tips on markets and future growth areas
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C O N T E N T S
PREFACE 1
FOREWORD 7
INTRODUCTION 9
GET EDUCATED 13DANIEL KERTCHER
KNOW THY SELF 43KIM REILLY
COVERED CALLS 65LYN SUMMERS
MOVING AVERAGE 83JOHN X
LIVE YOUR DREAMS 99NIK HALIK
TRADING THE SPI 119JODY ELLISS
INTRODUCING E-MINIS 139PETER ELSWORTH
CONTROL YOUR LIFE 157CYDNEY O’SULLIVAN
RESPECT THE MARKET 181JOHN HOWELL
STICK TO RULES 197BRYAN CRONYN
FINAL THOUGHTS 213
GLOSSARY 215
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Respect The Market
J O H N H O W E L L
I have gone through so many di f ferent jobs
i t ’s not funny – f rom a landscape gardener, to a
car detai ler, to a sa lesman – but af ter
exper iencing trading I don’t th ink I wi l l ever
look back!
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J O H N H O W E L LJohn Howell was born in Penrith, New South Wales, in 1984. Formal
education was not something that sat well with John and by year
ten he was asked to leave school after being told he would not pass
his exams. He tried jobs in the car industry before finding work as a
landscaping labourer.
After a few years, he realised that working a job was not going to get
him ahead in life. After completing a home study program on options
trading, he practised fervently and made the decision to embark on
a full-time trading career at just 20 years of age. Managing to save
up $10,000, he quit his job and started trading. After initial success,
John followed the route of many traders and lost his entire $10,000
bank. He returned to landscaping.
Despite his initial failure, John still had a burning desire to achieve
success with trading. He spent all his free time practising and started
seeing some patterns in the charts that would suit his trading
personality and style. After six months of practise and good paper
results, John started trading again. In less than a year, he made close
to a 400 per cent return on his initial trading bank.
In addition to testing and refining his trading strategies, John is now
focused on coaching other traders and recently presented his first
options trading program. He has the sincere belief that anyone with
the right attitude can make money through trading.
John lives in Sydney with his wife, Michelle, and in his spare time
enjoys playing guitar, listening to and watching motivational programs,
working on his fitness and playing recreational sports.
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Why did you start trading the share market?
When I was young I worked really hard but realised that I wasn’t getting
ahead. I decided that it was important for me to have freedom and a
lifestyle that suited me, so I went in search of various strategies in the
wealth creation industry. I completed some seminars and home study
programs and found myself in options trading.
One of the things that attracted me to exchange traded options was that I
didn’t need a lot of capital to start. I watched a DVD home study program
by Kim Reilly, who started his options trading career with $5,000, and
this inspired me to look closely at the opportunity. At the time I was also
interested in property investing, but realised I needed a lot more capital
and time for property. The fact that I didn’t have to spend as much time
on trading was important and very appealing to me.
Did you know anything about what you were doing in the
beginning?
To tell you the truth, I didn’t really know what I was doing. I had some
idea of what options were, but, being as enthusiastic as I was, I simply
jumped in the deep end and had a go. And just like a lot of traders, I
learnt the hard way – I lost a lot of money and figured out what to do
next as I went along.
How much money did you initially start with and what type of
strategy were you trading with?
In the beginning I made a decision to save as much as I could from my
income. I was only 20 and didn’t have much in the way of savings, despite
working 60 to 70 hours a week as a landscape labourer for three years.
But my desire to change my situation and get to a better place was strong,
and so I ended up starting off with a bank of $10,000.
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My initial strategy was to day-trade
the Australian market with exchange
traded options. This would involve me
buying option contacts (based on entry
indicators) with a goal of exiting the
position within two to five days. My
strategy was based purely on technical
analysis – looking at charts, adjusting my
indicators and making decisions based on
the system I was trading at the time. I
didn’t involve myself in any fundamental
analysis (where a trader also looks at the ‘fundamentals’ of a company
– management, profit/earnings ratios and so on), or news regarding the
stocks, unless it was a major announcement, such as takeovers, financial
successes and ex-dividends.
Following my systems also meant that I avoided companies that were
going ex-dividends (that usually occurs twice a year with major stocks)
because announcements about dividends generally directly affect the
option price and are ‘factored in’ to the option. Inexperienced traders
can get very excited about entering a position a couple of days before
an announcement, only to find that there is no movement on the option
price because the dividend has already been taken into account.
Did you experience any fears or doubts when you placed your first
trade?
I was only 20 when I placed my first trade and I was very nervous (my
hands were literally shaking!) – needless to say, I didn’t sleep much that
night. The worst mistake I made was to make money too quickly (I have
since heard many people in the industry say the same thing). After my
first trade I made a good profit and thought I was on top of the world.
I thought that I could do anything! But less than a month later I had
blown my whole bank account!
M y strategy was
based purely on
technical analys is –
look ing at
char ts…
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I wasn’t really focusing in the beginning and it reflected in my early
results. After turning $10,000 into $13,000, I started to break the rules.
One rule I made was to not invest more than 20 per cent of my trading
account. So with a bank of $13,000, I never should have had more than
approximately $2,600 in any single position. Before I knew it I was entering
trades with $10,000 – that was around 80 per cent of my trading bank!
Looking back, it’s not surprising that I came completely unstuck.
What happened after your initial losses?
After I lost my initial capital I had to bite the bullet and go back to work
as a landscape labourer. Let me tell you, this was not a part of my plan
and was quite a shock – my goal of becoming a financially independent
trader had definitely hit a wall! But I needed income and so I went back
to a job.
Over the next six months, I really looked hard at the trading system I
was using and probably back-tested stocks for around ten to 20 hours
per week. This meant I would pick a stock, open the chart, go back a
few years, and look at each daily movement to determine whether or not
I would have traded the stock on that day. I kept a record of the trades
and the profits and losses – it’s a bit like trading but without the risk of
losing your money.
As I analysed the charts in more detail, the first thing I realised was that
had I stuck to just one of my rules – only having 20 per cent of my bank
in one position at a given time – I could have still been trading! This
hurt because it gave my self-confidence a knock; I realised I was working
a job again because of the mistakes I had made. But it also inspired me
– trading could be a realistic goal if I stuck to the trading plan.
Looking back, that time out of the market was the best thing for me
because it was a wake-up call – I do not control the market! I also
learnt that I really needed to control my emotions when trading. When
I lost my bank, my ego got in the way and I overtraded (I tried to take
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too many trades). By doing this you inevitably enter positions that you
should not have. Sometimes I would take a loss and then look at the
entry signal and say to myself, ‘Why the heck was I in that trade in the
first place?’ I realised that this was clouding my mind and it made things
really complicated.
I knew that when I went live again I had to stick to my plan no matter
what and I needed a simple black-and-white strategy to be effective in the
market. My confidence grew as a result of paper trading and I started to
notice a few extra indicators that seemed to make my system better. So
I eventually developed my own little system based on the key indicators
and rules I had learnt from Kim Reilly.
I was honest enough to realise that making paper money was not the
same as making real money. The question now was whether or not I
had learnt my lesson.
What happened when you started trading the second time around?
This time around there were five things that were different.
1. I started with a bigger bank of $22,000.
2. I was more confident (but not overconfident) because I had experienced
success paper trading.
3. I didn’t quit my day job (this was very important), so trading became
my second income rather than my sole income, responsible for paying
all my bills. I regard this change as the biggest factor to my newfound
success and one that I often emphasise to other traders.
4. I traded more slowly. I’m the type of person who talks louder and
faster when I get excited – I want everyone to know about it as quickly
as possible. I think my early trading may have reflected that. These
days I don’t rush into a trade; in fact, I would say that I now wait for
the trades to show up before I do anything (rather than hunting for
a new trade every time I looked at the charts).
5. I stuck to the rules to my new system!
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This time things really worked! I produced some good returns, stuck to
my rules and was confident enough to quit my job and trade for a living
(which I guess should have been my strategy the first time). In less than
a year, I turned the $22,000 initial capital into $109,000. At the time, I
thought this was a good result, but nothing that special. Since then, other
traders have told me how amazing it was to have achieved such results
as a 21-year-old.
Who are some of the mentors that have inspired you and what
lessons have you learnt from them?
I originally learnt from a Kim Reilly home study program and discovered
that anything is possible when you really put your mind to it.
I also learnt from John Kaye and realised that trading has to be fun – if
you are not having fun then the cash doesn’t come.
Simon Martin helped me to be more patient – don’t try to force the
market, let the market give you a signal to trade.
From a personal point of view I learnt from Warren Stokes, of Universal
Trading Solutions. He taught me to sit back and enjoy life because you
don’t know when it is over. Jamie McIntyre made me realise that we really
do have the world in the palms of our hands and we can do anything
we want to do.
What is the most important thing
you have learnt about trading in the
stock market?
• You must stick to your rules no matter
what.
• If you have a set of rules and you
know they work, then back-test the
system. The best way to back-test is
In less than a year,
I turned the $22,000
in i t ia l capita l into
$109,000.
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to find a stock, go back a few years and use your rules to find a time
that you would have bought in. Then you look ahead to see if your
strategy would have worked and been profitable.
• The market doesn’t know that we are in it.
• The market is always right, so don’t try to fight it!
• You need to have patience, patience and more patience; and discipline,
discipline and more discipline. I can’t stress that enough!
You like to trade in the day and the night. Can you explain how
this works and how much time you devote to each market?
During the day I trade options on the Australian stock market and at
night I trade the indexes. I trade the S&P 500, which is actually an e-
mini index. I have a big passion for my trading and if I could I would
trade 24/7!
I spend half-an-hour a day looking at the Australian market. I trade from
3.30pm until the market closes at 4.00pm. I find that the less time I look
at the market, the more success I have as half-an-hour is not enough
time to talk myself into or out of a trade. The best situation is when I
can look at a chart for 30 seconds and come to a decision about whether
to trade or not.
At night I trade the S&P e-mini market in the US. The S&P market is the
top 500 companies in America and averages the prices out in an index
known as the S&P 500. I usually trade the US market for about five to six
hours, starting from 11.30pm. I am actually intraday trading, which means
that I am watching the market move one to three minutes at a time.
What does your night strategy involve?
The S&P 500 is a fast and volatile market and I often trade on minute-
to-minute charts. The volume of contracts can be millions of dollars per
minute! As this type of trading is highly leveraged, my strategy is to get
into a trade and then get out, making a really good profit as quickly as
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I can. It is very much a pattern-based strategy; the key indicators I use
involve looking at the previous close price because that acts as support
and resistance. I then use a number of other indicators that I have recently
developed.
Do you find intraday trading to be stressful?
No, not at all. When you learn the habits of a successful trader, stress
becomes non-existent. Patience and discipline are key qualities that help
deal with stress easily. You know the market will be there in 50 years, so
you know that you don’t have to trade every day; so just sit back and
wait for various patterns to form.
At present, how much time do you spend developing your trading
strategies?
Well, none at the moment. I have two systems: one for buying on the
Australian stock market and another for trading S&P 500 e-minis on the
US market. At present I don’t spend any time looking for other strategies
because these two are working well for me. Sometimes I might spend
40 hours a week back-testing these strategies, but on the whole I pretty
much stick to the motto I learnt from Kim Reilly: ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t
fix it’.
Can you describe some of the indicators you use to trade options
and what indicators beginners should use?
Candlesticks – candlesticks have an amazing history and you need to
understand some of the history to fully comprehend why to use them.
Originally used by rice merchants in Japan for hundreds of years,
candlesticks didn’t really come to the attention of the western world until
Steve Nison brought them to the US in 1991. Although candlesticks are too
complex to describe in a paragraph or two, the reason I use them when
trading is that they give me a very powerful visual representation of what
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the stock is doing, warning me when a
stock is going to move in a particular
direction.
Moving average – this indicator appears as
a line on your charts. If you have a nine-
day moving average, it averages out the
closing price of the last nine trading days.
That will act as a support and resistance
line. I also use Bollinger Bands, which can
give you a hint of future volatility (how
likely the price is to move up or down). The bands appear as two lines
on the chart and when the bands widen out the volatility is picking up.
Relative Strength Index (RSI) – the RSI determines the internal strength of
a particular stock. If the RSI is rising and stock is falling then the stock
will soon come around and move in the direction of the RSI.
For beginners, I suggest you ‘trade with the trend’. This means that if
the market has been trading upward for three months, don’t trade a put
(which means you think the market will go down). Make sure you know
where the buyers and sellers are at all times because this will determine
whether the price will rise or fall. Countertrends (movements against the
general trending pattern) can be beneficial as well. For example, if you
have an upward trend and then a little countertrend (i.e. the price starts
to fall), followed by a bullish day (where the closing price is higher than
the opening price) and the bands are widening out then this may be a
good entry signal. You should also be looking for increasing volume.
Why? Because gravity always works in the stock market and you want
that buying pressure so it can continue upwards.
I a lso use
Bol l inger Bands,
which can give you a
hint of future
volat i l i t y…
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What profit margin or return on investment do you look for with
each of the trades you make?
When I first started out with options I didn’t have a lot of money and
I couldn’t buy a lot of options contracts so my goal was to generate a
consistent income without having to go for big profits at the same time.
I decided that I would go for a 30 per cent profit on each individual
trade made in the Australian market and put a stop loss of 20 per cent
to protect myself on the downside.
John, all smiles as he trades the Australian options market.
Intraday trading in the US market is a bit different. As the S&P 500 is an
index, it moves on points and one contract costs $US1,000. Each point
that the index moves is equivalent to five per cent of my contract size.
I generally have a profit and loss target of two points either side of the
current price that the market is offering – I am trying to make ten per
cent a trade. I also have protection strategies so that if the index moves
in my favour by one point I adjust my stop loss by one point as well.
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Do you have a specific set of rules that you trade by?
Yes. I have put together ten rules (or commandments) that I believe are
vital for every trader:
1. You must believe in your system. You need to have a black-and-white
system and paper trade it first because that’s when you build your
confidence up.
2. You need to back-test; practise before you go live.
3. Make sure you keep a journal and consistently write your results
in it.
4. Do not overtrade.
5. Don’t gamble on which trade to enter. Go off your own set of rules
and stick to them.
6. Keep your emotions out of the trading arena. If you don’t, then fear
and doubt will start to take over.
7. Take time out of the market occasionally (this is really important).
Sometimes it is great to simply take a week off to get away from
things.
8. Make sure you keep your capital in your account. Your capital is your
business; the money in the bank is your client, and if you lose your
client you lose your business.
9. Make sure you have a management rule and trade only 20 per cent
of your trading bank – never trade more than seven per cent of your
net worth.
10. If you are in any doubt about a trade always stay out!
How much emphasis do you place on personal development and
trading psychology?
Successful trading is 90 per cent mind-set and ten per cent strategy. I can
show people the most fantastic black-and-white system, and yet only five
per cent of them will ever trade it. Trading can create a lot of fear and
doubt in people’s minds, but if you know how to control your emotions
you can eliminate those voices in your head.
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I often find that beginner traders are too hard on themselves. They look
at a chart and try to find a good trade, and if there isn’t one they start
telling themselves that they are losers because they couldn’t find one. You
cannot let your emotions take control!
At a wider level, I am a big believer that we create the world we live in
from the initial thought processes we have. This ability to bring thought
into being (creating reality) is the gift and mystery of life. This is well
known, yet rarely practised, and so many people fail to ever experience
it. If you concentrate your thoughts and bring forward a precise picture
that depicts your true desires for trading, that is what you will experience
in your life. If you project a fuzzy image, or worse still, no image at all,
that is what you will get – fuzzy or nonexistent trading results.
Whether trading makes you ill from stress or takes you on to become a
millionaire, resides in the fact that the only thing that separates human
beings from any other form of life known to us is our unique ability to
bring thoughts into being. What’s more, I believe that if your vision is
combined with an action of gratitude and love, it will accelerate toward
you. On the other hand, if your vision is coupled with the actions of
fear and restriction, the object of your desire will become increasingly
difficult to obtain.
I actually still have a lot of trouble figuring out why so many people lose
money trading. I don’t believe trading is hard at all! Many traders will say
this is ridiculous or even laugh at it, but I honestly believe that trading
is simple, providing you follow the laws of creating wealth.
What advice can you offer options
traders who are not succeeding?
First of all, I am a very strong believer
that you need to have a live broker. Most
traders don’t have a live broker because it
is an additional expense (live brokers will
I am a ver y strong
bel iever that you
need to have a l ive
brok er.
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always cost more than online services) or they say that online services
are much more convenient. However, I believe having a good broker on
your side is a must! In my seminar I teach people a number of questions
to ask a broker before using them. You really need to interview a broker
first to find out if he or she has the right qualifications and will be
suitable for your style of trading. By qualifications I don’t just mean
letters after their name or the brokerage house they work for. You need
to find out things like whether or not their company has a dedicated
stock and options desk and what experience the trader has in executing
stock and options trades. Do they have experience themselves in trading
stocks and options, and do they have successful clients actively trading?
These are a number of questions that a trader really needs to have any
potential broker answer.
What do you love about trading the market?
Trading the market is about getting me to where I want to go in life. I
have gone through so many different jobs it’s not funny – from a landscape
gardener, to a car detailer, to a salesman – but after experiencing trading I
don’t think I will ever look back! I love the buzz of the market, especially
trading at night, which is exciting and extremely fast. Trading has changed
my life forever!
What is your advice for young people who want to become a
successful stock market investor?
If you want to make trading a career you have to keep it simple. Treat
it as the most important thing you will do in your life. What I mean by
that is you have to be present in the moment and focused on the task at
hand. You also have to accept that you will have losses. Oh, yeah – and
never, never, never, never, never, give up! I learnt this at a time when
I thought I was king of the share market. Even today, the market will
give me a big whack to remind me that I am not king. So please, don’t
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ever think you own the market. Respect the market and the market will
respect you!
What books have influenced your trading and financial
development?
There have been quite a few…
1. Why We Want You to be Rich – Robert Kiyosaki and Donald Trump
2. What I Didn’t Learn at School But I Wish I Had – Jamie McIntyre
3. Your Right to be Rich – Napoleon Hill
4. From 0 to 260+ properties in 7 years – Steve McKnight
5. Real Estate Riches: How To Become Rich Using Your Banker’s Money
– Robert Kiyosaki
6. Getting Everything You Can Out of All You’ve Got – Jay Abraham
7. The Complete Guide to Futures Trading – Lind Waldock
8. Secrets of Young Achievers Exposed! – Dale Beaumont
9. The Art of Winning – Robert Kiyosaki
10. Think Big (Audio) – Donald Trump
…and a lot more, as well as Anthony Robbins’ CDs.
Where do you see yourself in five to ten years time?
My goal is to have an educational business (based on coaching and
mentoring) and, of course, to be a millionaire through trading and various
other hobbies that I have. I have learnt so many skills in trading that I
feel I should be sharing this with others. Plus, I honestly believe that the
world would be a better place with more education. While some people
regard the goal of becoming a millionaire as being driven by greed, I want
to teach people that this drive to live a life of purpose requires money.
For me to be able to teach people, I need more money and time. I believe
the share market can do that for me.
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Why are you so passionate about helping others learn to become
better traders?
I want to help people because I have seen what trading has done for my
life. When I was younger, I was living on the streets for a while and was
even asked to leave school because I wasn’t smart enough. From there I
got into landscaping and also tried jobs in the car industry. Trading has
opened a new world for me and I have never looked back. I sincerely
believe that people can be taught the skills to become a successful trader,
and by helping others realise this potential they too will be able to make
more money. More money means more choices for people and hopefully
a better lifestyle.
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