TRADING BLOG

How to Know You’re Ready
Scott Welsh
29 June, 2022
Badly Beating Bear Markets With Forex
Scott Welsh
22 June, 2022
So Simple It Just Might Work
Scott Welsh
15 June, 2022
How I Made 22% in One Day
Scott Welsh
08 June, 2022
Screwup #1: Falling Asleep in the Getaway Car
Scott Welsh
01 June, 2022
The Secret to Long-Term Trading
Scott Welsh
25 May, 2022
The Nightmare Scenario
Scott Welsh
18 May, 2022
The Magic Tool for Getting Rich
Scott Welsh
11 May, 2022
There’s No Such Thing as a Market Downturn
Scott Welsh
04 May, 2022
The Irreplaceable Secret to Massive Returns
Scott Welsh
27 April, 2022
The Key to Getting 100-Baggers
Scott Welsh
20 April, 2022
Finding a Great Long-Term Strategy
Scott Welsh
13 April, 2022
Catching Big Moves
Scott Welsh
06 April, 2022
Do Indicator-Based Systems Work?
Scott Welsh
30 March, 2022
Even Perfect Isn’t Perfect
Scott Welsh
23 March, 2022
Successful Traders Love It, We Hate It
Scott Welsh
16 March, 2022
Wisdom from a Legendary Trader
Scott Welsh
09 March, 2022
A Sharp Stick in the Eye
Scott Welsh
02 March, 2022
The Performance Page
Scott Welsh
23 February, 2022
Crashbusters
Scott Welsh
16 February, 2022
The Best Way to Trade?
Scott Welsh
09 February, 2022
Searching for Robust
Scott Welsh
02 February, 2022
Checking in on “Diamond Hands”
Scott Welsh
26 January, 2022
Stock Trading Gone Crazy
Scott Welsh
19 January, 2022
Good Start for Old School
Scott Welsh
12 January, 2022
Master Trend for 2022 (Simple)
Scott Welsh
09 January, 2022
Free System for 2022: Old School
Scott Welsh
07 January, 2022
The Year in Review
Scott Welsh
05 January, 2022
The Tracking Problem
Scott Welsh
29 December, 2021
Difficult Profits
Scott Welsh
22 December, 2021
New Strategy, Old Fundamentals
Scott Welsh
15 December, 2021
The $100 Million Trade
Scott Welsh
08 December, 2021
An Oldie But Goodie
Scott Welsh
01 December, 2021
The Fight Against Failure
Scott Welsh
24 November, 2021
A Friendly Neighborhood Prop Firm
Scott Welsh
17 November, 2021
The Key Ingredient to Growing a Small Account Quickly
Scott Welsh
10 November, 2021
The “Best” System I Have
Scott Welsh
03 November, 2021
Is Prop Trading a Good Idea?
Scott Welsh
27 October, 2021
Old Newsletter Systems
Scott Welsh
20 October, 2021
The Allure of Trading the Heron
Scott Welsh
13 October, 2021
Why Robot Trading Doesn’t Work
Scott Welsh
06 October, 2021
Culture Conquers All
Scott Welsh
29 September, 2021
Getting Started Starts With This
Scott Welsh
22 September, 2021
The Beauty of Moving Average Cross Systems
Scott Welsh
15 September, 2021
Out of Hiding
Scott Welsh
08 September, 2021
The Incredible/Dreaded Moving Average System
Scott Welsh
01 September, 2021
What if Buffett Was a Forex Trend Follower?
Scott Welsh
25 August, 2021
Setting Up a Simple Portfolio
Scott Welsh
18 August, 2021
Can $10,000 Turn Into a Million?
Scott Welsh
11 August, 2021
Better Than Buffett
Scott Welsh
04 August, 2021
Dear EURCHF: It’s Not Me, It’s You
Scott Welsh
28 July, 2021
Testing the Best Indicator for Trend Following
Scott Welsh
21 July, 2021
The Power of Stop-And-Reverse
Scott Welsh
14 July, 2021
The Battle of Simple v. Complex
Scott Welsh
07 July, 2021
The Impossible Possibility
Scott Welsh
30 June, 2021
Mysterious Profits
Scott Welsh
23 June, 2021
Friendly Tips
Scott Welsh
16 June, 2021
The Problem with a High Win Percentage
Scott Welsh
09 June, 2021
Using Losing to Our Advantage?
Scott Welsh
02 June, 2021
Finding a Legitimate Long-Term Solution
Scott Welsh
26 May, 2021
Breaking the Rules
Scott Welsh
19 May, 2021
One of My Favorite New Strategies
Scott Welsh
12 May, 2021
What to Pick for the Long-Term
Scott Welsh
05 May, 2021
The Building Block
Scott Welsh
28 April, 2021
The Best Systems are the Old Systems?
Scott Welsh
21 April, 2021
Searching for Moonshots
Scott Welsh
14 April, 2021
Desperately Seeking Short-Term
Scott Welsh
07 April, 2021
Trading the Amazon Way
Scott Welsh
31 March, 2021
Is a Market Crash Coming?
Scott Welsh
24 March, 2021
My Favorite Thing
Scott Welsh
17 March, 2021
Using Time Instead of Targets
Scott Welsh
10 March, 2021
True Motives
Scott Welsh
03 March, 2021
More Money, Less Useful
Scott Welsh
24 February, 2021
The Two Most Dangerous Words in Trading: “Diamond Hands”
Scott Welsh
17 February, 2021
The Good News and Terrible News on the GameStop Saga
Scott Welsh
10 February, 2021
Do You Trust Your System?
Scott Welsh
03 February, 2021
Is Weekly Pivot my “Best” Robot?
Scott Welsh
27 January, 2021
Interview with the Dragonfly
Scott Welsh
20 January, 2021
Be Right or Be Profitable
Scott Welsh
13 January, 2021
Ignoring Advice
Scott Welsh
06 January, 2021
Risky Business
Scott Welsh
01 January, 2021
Easy is the Enemy
Scott Welsh
23 December, 2020
No Fun at All
Scott Welsh
16 December, 2020
Not Impressed
Scott Welsh
09 December, 2020
Yes, Virginia, Random Hunches Can Beat the Market
Scott Welsh
02 December, 2020
Good for Them, Bad for Us
Scott Welsh
25 November, 2020
Too Many Cooks
Scott Welsh
18 November, 2020
The Problem With Compounding
Scott Welsh
11 November, 2020
Dealing with Failure
Scott Welsh
04 November, 2020
Do Systems Really Break?
Scott Welsh
28 October, 2020
Trading Equals Losing
Scott Welsh
21 October, 2020
Breaking Barriers
Scott Welsh
14 October, 2020
Thanks, But No Thanks
Scott Welsh
11 October, 2020
The Resistance
Scott Welsh
09 October, 2020
The Grand Experiment
Scott Welsh
07 October, 2020
Overcoming the Biggest Obstacle
Scott Welsh
30 September, 2020
Sometimes It’s Time to Exit (Step 16)
Scott Welsh
23 September, 2020
Stupid Is As Stupid Does
Scott Welsh
23 September, 2020
Putting It All Together (Step 13)
Scott Welsh
16 September, 2020
Fixing a Broken System (Step 10)
Scott Welsh
09 September, 2020
Examining Breakouts in Forex (Step 7)
Scott Welsh
02 September, 2020
Breakouts Dominate in Chaos (Step 4)
Scott Welsh
26 August, 2020
The Greatest Methodology of All Time (Step 1)
Scott Welsh
19 August, 2020
The System That Won’t Lose
Scott Welsh
12 August, 2020
A Blessing and a Curse (Step 15)
Scott Welsh
29 July, 2020
What to Trade: Final Cuts (Step 18)
Scott Welsh
29 July, 2020
The Timeframe is Crucial (Step 12)
Scott Welsh
22 July, 2020
Amateurs Talk About Tactics (Step 9)
Scott Welsh
15 July, 2020
Going the Conservative Route (Step 6)
Scott Welsh
08 July, 2020
How to Pick What to Trade (Step 3)
Scott Welsh
01 July, 2020
Starting From Scratch
Scott Welsh
24 June, 2020
Is Too Complex Too Much?
Scott Welsh
17 June, 2020
A Real Look At Aggressive Account Growth
Scott Welsh
10 June, 2020
The Critical Part Of Growing An Account
Scott Welsh
03 June, 2020
The Overlooked Key To Trading Success
Scott Welsh
27 May, 2020
Horses For Courses
Scott Welsh
20 May, 2020
Building An Eternal System
Scott Welsh
13 May, 2020
The Brilliant Trick Of Big Fund Managers
Scott Welsh
06 May, 2020
How To Be Smarter Than The System
Scott Welsh
29 April, 2020
Countertrend Systems During Chaos
Scott Welsh
22 April, 2020
Do Indicator Systems Work In Chaos?
Scott Welsh
15 April, 2020
The Most Dangerous Way To Trade
Scott Welsh
08 April, 2020
We Need Something Better
Scott Welsh
25 March, 2020
Does the Turtle Strategy Still Work? (Because We Need It)
Scott Welsh
18 March, 2020
Unlike the Market, This System Is Up in 2020
Scott Welsh
11 March, 2020
What Made Good Money Last Week
Scott Welsh
04 March, 2020
Deciphering Cliches, Making Money
Scott Welsh
26 February, 2020
Update on the 2020 Robot
Scott Welsh
19 February, 2020
Beating the Best From Our Living Room
Scott Welsh
12 February, 2020
Can Regular Traders Find An Edge?
Scott Welsh
05 February, 2020
Are Stoplosses Overrated?
Scott Welsh
29 January, 2020
Is This Part of the Secret?
Scott Welsh
22 January, 2020
Where’s the Path?
Scott Welsh
15 January, 2020
Starting a “Revolution”
Scott Welsh
08 January, 2020
What Worked (Or Didn’t Work) in 2019
Scott Welsh
26 December, 2019
Trading Extremes
Scott Welsh
18 December, 2019
Would You Trade This Winning System?
Scott Welsh
11 December, 2019
What’s More Important: The System or Money Management?
Scott Welsh
04 December, 2019
Building A New System With An Old Indicator
Scott Welsh
27 November, 2019
Strategies That Work When Trouble Hits
Scott Welsh
20 November, 2019
Analyzing the Best Trader of All Time
Scott Welsh
13 November, 2019
Trying To Beat Wall Street Goliaths
Scott Welsh
06 November, 2019
What is a “Simple Trading Strategy”?
Scott Welsh
30 October, 2019
The Dangers Of Going For It
Scott Welsh
23 October, 2019
Would You Believe In a Free System?
Scott Welsh
16 October, 2019
Finding Systems For Quick Growth
Scott Welsh
09 October, 2019
What Grows An Account the Fastest?
Scott Welsh
02 October, 2019
Doing The Opposite
Scott Welsh
25 September, 2019
Fixing the Weak Spots
Scott Welsh
18 September, 2019
The Holy Grail of Backtesting?
Scott Welsh
11 September, 2019
When A System Breaks
Scott Welsh
04 September, 2019
Is It Real Or Is It Marketing?
Scott Welsh
28 August, 2019
Is Holding Overnight A Good Idea?
Scott Welsh
21 August, 2019
A Brand New Way To Trade Moving Averages
Scott Welsh
14 August, 2019
The System I Want To Trade
Scott Welsh
07 August, 2019
Are Big Trades The Best Trades?
Scott Welsh
31 July, 2019
Riding Big Momentum (New System)
Scott Welsh
24 July, 2019
Complex Versus Simple
Scott Welsh
17 July, 2019
Going For Bigger Profit Targets
Scott Welsh
10 July, 2019
What’s Wrong With The Right Way To Trade
Scott Welsh
03 July, 2019
Making 100% In A Year
Scott Welsh
26 June, 2019
Trading To Fair Value Without Stops
Scott Welsh
19 June, 2019
The Two-Day Workweek
Scott Welsh
12 June, 2019
This Strategy Shouldn’t Work
Scott Welsh
05 June, 2019
Is It Risky Or Is It Smart?
Scott Welsh
29 May, 2019
Going Hard With The Trend
Scott Welsh
22 May, 2019
The Power of Countertrend Trading
Scott Welsh
15 May, 2019
Who Needs A Stoploss When You Win All The Time?
Scott Welsh
08 May, 2019
Making The Leap From Theory To Live Trading
Scott Welsh
01 May, 2019
The Trick Used By The Best Traders
Scott Welsh
24 April, 2019
A Shocking Way To Make 50% In One Trade
Scott Welsh
17 April, 2019
Is Divergence The Secret To Profitable Trading?
Scott Welsh
10 April, 2019
Do Mysterious Free Trading Systems Work?
Scott Welsh
03 April, 2019
The Volatility Breakout System
Scott Welsh
27 March, 2019
The Biggest Trading Mistake I Ever Made
Scott Welsh
20 March, 2019
Is Price Action The Best Way To Beat The Market?
Scott Welsh
13 March, 2019
The Best Currency Pair For Trend Following
Scott Welsh
06 March, 2019
The Danger of Winning Every Trade
Scott Welsh
27 February, 2019
Doubling An Account The Boring Way
Scott Welsh
20 February, 2019
Can A Bad Risk-To-Reward Ratio Make Millions?
Scott Welsh
13 February, 2019
The New Heron Does Something Amazing
Scott Welsh
06 February, 2019
Can A Classic System Take Us To Hawaii?
Scott Welsh
30 January, 2019
The Best Way To Trade A Portfolio
Scott Welsh
23 January, 2019
The Big Benefits of Long-Term Trading
Scott Welsh
16 January, 2019
The Advantages of Not Using a Stoploss
Scott Welsh
09 January, 2019
Strategies That Worked in 2018
Scott Welsh
02 January, 2019
A Great Strategy For A Down Market
Scott Welsh
26 December, 2018
Overcoming Obstacles With A Keltner System
Scott Welsh
19 December, 2018
The Most Profitable Day Of The Week
Scott Welsh
12 December, 2018
How To Make Your Trading System Better
Scott Welsh
05 December, 2018
The Twitter Trend System
Scott Welsh
28 November, 2018
The Most Important Part of a Trading System
Scott Welsh
21 November, 2018
Introducing The Stiffness Indicator
Scott Welsh
14 November, 2018
The Joy and Pain of a 100% System
Scott Welsh
07 November, 2018
The Overlooked Key To Trading-For-A-Living
Scott Welsh
31 October, 2018
Is Stochastics The Solution To Trading-For-A-Living?
Scott Welsh
24 October, 2018
How To Beat The Market In Times Of Chaos
Scott Welsh
19 October, 2018
My Axe To Grind
Scott Welsh
17 October, 2018
Is MACD The Magic Tool?
Scott Welsh
10 October, 2018
The RSI System With a Surprising Twist
Scott Welsh
03 October, 2018
This Week: Is Gap Trading Profitable?
Scott Welsh
26 September, 2018
This Week: Using Pullbacks on Forex
Scott Welsh
19 September, 2018
This Week: The Crazy World of Trading Gold
Scott Welsh
12 September, 2018
This Week: The Power of Keltner Channels
Scott Welsh
05 September, 2018
Is Daytrading More Profitable Than Long-Term Trading?
Scott Welsh
29 August, 2018
Introducing The Slingshot Trading System
Scott Welsh
22 August, 2018
The Most Fun Part of Trading
Scott Welsh
15 August, 2018
The Neglected Element of Trading Success
Scott Welsh
08 August, 2018
Is This Chart Too Good to be True?
Scott Welsh
01 August, 2018
Should We Trade in Both Directions?
Scott Welsh
25 July, 2018
The Terrible Danger of a Good Risk to Reward Ratio
Scott Welsh
18 July, 2018
The Burning Question: Do I Need to Re-Optimize my System?
Scott Welsh
11 July, 2018
The Surprising Indicator That Beats the Market Best of All
Scott Welsh
04 July, 2018
Price Action v. Indicators: Which Works Better?
Scott Welsh
27 June, 2018
Which Indicator is Best: Stochastics or RSI?
Scott Welsh
20 June, 2018
Case Study: Do Indicators Really Work?
Scott Welsh
13 June, 2018
Falling Out of Love With Short-Term Charts
Scott Welsh
06 June, 2018
Should We Trade The Scariest Day of the Week?
Scott Welsh
30 May, 2018
Do Good Strategies Really Work in all Timeframes?
Scott Welsh
23 May, 2018
Does the Golden Cross Strategy Really Work?
Scott Welsh
16 May, 2018
My Favorite Tip For Successful System Trading
Scott Welsh
09 May, 2018
Why Everyone Can Beat the Market (plus presentation)
Scott Welsh
02 May, 2018
Why Trading Beats Buy-and-Hold (Even When it Doesn’t)
Scott Welsh
25 April, 2018
Can We Talk About This E-Mini Chart for a Second?
Scott Welsh
18 April, 2018
The Breakout System on Steroids
Scott Welsh
11 April, 2018
How is 2018 Going So Far?
Scott Welsh
04 April, 2018
How to Reduce Drawdown Without Using a Stoploss
Scott Welsh
28 March, 2018
The Joy of Trading Without a Stoploss
Scott Welsh
21 March, 2018
Taking It To The Limit One More Time (Going for The Big Win)
Scott Welsh
14 March, 2018
Double Your Account in a Month? (The Answer May Surprise You)
Scott Welsh
07 March, 2018
The Horrors of Passive Investing
Scott Welsh
28 February, 2018
What a Successful Trader Looks Like
Scott Welsh
21 February, 2018
We Have Met the Enemy…And It’s a Clown
Scott Welsh
14 February, 2018
It’s About Time: Interviewing the Heron Robot
Scott Welsh
07 February, 2018
How to Make 88% in a Year the Clueless Way
Scott Welsh
31 January, 2018
Watching 50% Per Year in Real Time
Scott Welsh
24 January, 2018
How to Know What to Expect From Your System
Scott Welsh
17 January, 2018
How to Start Your Investing Career
Scott Welsh
10 January, 2018
The Simple Trading System That Pummels the Market
Scott Welsh
03 January, 2018
How to Beat the Market in 2018
Scott Welsh
27 December, 2017
S1 P5: Why Traders Don’t Want 30% Per Year
Scott Welsh
20 December, 2017
S1 P4: Why Bitcoin Keeps Going Up
Scott Welsh
13 December, 2017
S1 P3: Why Trend Following is the Greatest
Scott Welsh
06 December, 2017
S1 P2: A Solution to the Investing Crisis…Sort Of
Scott Welsh
29 November, 2017
Season 1 Post 1 (S1 P1): How Do We Get More Money?
Scott Welsh
22 November, 2017
5 Ways to Improve a Daytrading System
Scott Welsh
08 November, 2017
Hypothetically Speaking (An Angry Rant)
Scott Welsh
01 November, 2017
You Can’t Beat the Market
Scott Welsh
25 October, 2017
What the Perfect Trading System Looks Like
Scott Welsh
18 October, 2017
First Comes Belief
Scott Welsh
11 October, 2017
Trading is Not Gambling
Scott Welsh
04 October, 2017
The 99% Guarantee
Scott Welsh
27 September, 2017
Slow Down for More Profit
Scott Welsh
20 September, 2017
The Secret to Inevitable Success
Scott Welsh
13 September, 2017
When To Change a Losing Game
Scott Welsh
06 September, 2017
Will It Work In Real-Life?
Scott Welsh
30 August, 2017
The Delicious Agony of the Monster Winner
Scott Welsh
23 August, 2017
Beating the Best in the World (Realistically)
Scott Welsh
16 August, 2017
The Incredible Power of Missed Pivots
Scott Welsh
09 August, 2017
The Cost of Being Comfortable
Scott Welsh
02 August, 2017
How to Create a Profitable System
Scott Welsh
26 July, 2017
More Leverage, More Better?
Scott Welsh
19 July, 2017
A Tantalizing Dilemma
Scott Welsh
12 July, 2017
Picking Up Pennies in Front of Bulldozers
Scott Welsh
05 July, 2017
Interview With the Heron Robot
Scott Welsh
28 June, 2017
More Winning or More Money?
Scott Welsh
21 June, 2017
The No-Hour Workweek
Scott Welsh
14 June, 2017
The Dangers of Sage Advice
Scott Welsh
07 June, 2017
Too Good To Be True?
Scott Welsh
31 May, 2017
The Magnificent Madness of Martingale
Scott Welsh
24 May, 2017
The Exhilarating First Step
Scott Welsh
17 May, 2017
It Can’t Be Done?
Scott Welsh
10 May, 2017
Mathematically Making Money (Guaranteed)
Scott Welsh
03 May, 2017
A Champion’s Best Weapon
Scott Welsh
26 April, 2017
How To Win $1,500 in a Trading Contest
Scott Welsh
19 April, 2017
Would You Rather?
Scott Welsh
12 April, 2017
Attacking Weaknesses
Scott Welsh
05 April, 2017
What Would You Do?
Scott Welsh
29 March, 2017
The Dark Side of Buy-And-Hold
Scott Welsh
22 March, 2017
Taking That Excruciating Final Step
Scott Welsh
15 March, 2017
The Easiest System In The World
Scott Welsh
08 March, 2017
Can Countertrend Trading Make 50% Per Year?
Scott Welsh
01 March, 2017
Nine Lessons I Learned From Making 100% In A Year
Scott Welsh
24 February, 2017
The Most Important Topic In Trading
Scott Welsh
22 February, 2017
The Danger Of Wanting More
Scott Welsh
15 February, 2017
Setting Meaningful Goals In 2017
Scott Welsh
25 January, 2017
What I Learned In 2016
Scott Welsh
18 January, 2017
The Biggest Hurdle When Trading-For-A-Living
Scott Welsh
11 January, 2017
The Fascinating Hardship Of Winning Big
Scott Welsh
14 December, 2016
Liar, Liar, Pants On Fire
Scott Welsh
23 November, 2016
The Impossible Climb To Success
Scott Welsh
09 November, 2016
Hiding in Plain Sight
Scott Welsh
02 November, 2016
The Science of Staying in the Game
Scott Welsh
19 October, 2016
DANGER: FLASH CRASH
Scott Welsh
12 October, 2016
The State of the Trade Address
Scott Welsh
05 October, 2016
Get Rich Quick
Scott Welsh
28 September, 2016
The Big Break
Scott Welsh
14 September, 2016
The Million Dollar Decision
Scott Welsh
07 September, 2016
$10K to a Million
Scott Welsh
31 August, 2016
Ten Recommendations For the New Year
Scott Welsh
06 January, 2016
The Goodness Of Gaps
Scott Welsh
11 March, 2015
Recommended Reading For 2015
Scott Welsh
28 January, 2015
Battle of the Indicators: RSI v. Stochastic
Scott Welsh
03 September, 2014
Hating Waiting
Scott Welsh
27 August, 2014
Taking On The GBPJPY
Scott Welsh
25 June, 2014
Turning Small Accounts Into Big Ones
Scott Welsh
28 May, 2014
Why Strangers Won’t Steal Your Trading System
Scott Welsh
21 May, 2014
Daytrading Is Impossible
Scott Welsh
30 April, 2014
The Difference Between A Guide And A System
Scott Welsh
23 April, 2014
Which Timeframe Do You Like?
Scott Welsh
25 March, 2014
How To Trade The RSI
Scott Welsh
19 March, 2014
Good Ideas Gone Bad
Scott Welsh
12 March, 2014
Do Systems Die?
Scott Welsh
05 March, 2014
The Most Exciting Thing In Trading
Scott Welsh
26 February, 2014
Please Tell Me I Can Move To Break Even
Scott Welsh
29 January, 2014
Should You Pick Stocks or Currencies?
Scott Welsh
18 December, 2013
Ruining The 100-Bagger
Scott Welsh
04 December, 2013
Stalking The 100-Bagger
Scott Welsh
27 November, 2013
Does Diversification Mean More Profits?
Scott Welsh
20 November, 2013
If You Only Had One Chart To Trade
Scott Welsh
13 November, 2013
The Dark Side Of The Robot
Scott Welsh
07 November, 2013
Nick Saban Loves The Robot
Scott Welsh
03 November, 2013
Man v. Robot
Scott Welsh
01 November, 2013
Risk, Reward, And The Robot
Scott Welsh
17 October, 2013
The Robot v. Peter Lynch
Scott Welsh
09 October, 2013
The Robot Is Better Than You
Scott Welsh
21 September, 2013