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volume 2, no. 2
EXCLUSIVE TRADER
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trader's story
Get to know your fellow traders: YTE UK speaks with day trader Richard L. Muehlberg.
R
ichard L. Muehlberg has been trading screen currently displays sixty charts (from 500-day charts
to 5-minute charts). I use intermarket analysis to alert me to a days
trading for more than 20 years. best, cleanest trade(s) and to confirm intraday price moves. I use
Born in the United States, eSignal linear regression channel analysis and moving-average
analysis to examine price smoothing (price trends) and to identify buy
Richard was raised there, in and sell levels. I use time-of-day analysis to examine counterparty
Germany and in the United mix in a market and to identify intraday buying (selling) waves.
Kingdom. A childhood interest in writing Is there any one trade (win or loss) that had a profound
led him to a first career in advertising effect on your development as a trader? If so, what
did you learn from the trade?
as an executive/copywriter. A growing Every trade I make has an effect on me. If a trade is a win, I briefly
interest in trading later led to a second reflect on the skill I showed, then place that trade behind me. I know I
have to guard against becoming overconfident. If I succeed in staying
career as a day trader. Richard now focused, I will be likely to follow up with another win. If a trade is a loss,
trades futures, ETFs, debt, equity, FX, I immediately take the time needed to fix the source of my mistake. If I
metals and energy from his base in New succeed in fixing where I went wrong, I will be likely to follow up with a
win. I am a day trader. Day trading is a skill that can easily be subject to
York City. lapses. Every trade is important to my development.
How and when did you first become interested in the Tell us about your best and worst trades.
markets? Many, many years ago, I made a long gold position (trend) trade.
My interest began when I realised I could buy physical gold. I bought Gold went up day after day. I did well. Then gold reversed. I could not
a Krugerrand gold coin from a retail coin shop. Holding the coin in my understand what was happening. I kept waiting for gold to resume
hand, I thought, I like this. its climb. I fought the market. I went into a prolonged state of mental
paralysis. I held the long side as gold collapsed. I finally took my loss.
And then what happened? That trade was one of the seeds that grew into my adoption of day
After my coin experience, I began swing-trading silver bullion. I was trading. I prefer the risk management inherent in day trading. My best
attracted by an ad for a company specialising in bullion trading (you trades are when I wait for a good trade, act fast when my rules say
bought from them, you sold to them). After losing consistently I realised to act, then flow with price, and exit when my rules say to exit. My
I had no idea what I was doing. I stopped trading with that company. best trades are all trades (win or lose) during which I am disciplined.
How have you been able to learn and to educate Would you classify yourself as a short-term or a
yourself about the markets? long-term trader? What advice would you offer to
I am self-taught by trial and error. Fortunately, I suppose, I can be people getting started as traders on the relative
stubborn. I could not accept that I could not figure out how to be merits or otherwise of each?
consistent in trading successfully. I am a short-term trader. I start and end each trading day in cash.
The merits of a trading approach are relative to the trader. How do
Did you make mistakes when first starting out? you think? Do you prefer to take your time about making decisions
First mistake: I did not know what I did not know. Second mistake: I did or are you able to think and act quickly? Do you like to learn? Are
not appreciate the resources around me that could have helped me. you willing to learn rules? Can you follow rules? Can you admit
mistakes? Can you adapt? Compare who you are to the qualities a
Would you define yourself as a discretionary trader, a trading approach requires. The fact you are a beginner is part of the
mechanical trader or a combination of both? issue. Who you are is the larger part of the issue.
A combination. I give priority to mechanical decision-making, but
allow discretion. What markets do you trade and which markets do
you prefer? Do you have a favourite, and why?
Can you give us a brief overview of your trading style? I started trading as a single-market trend (position) trader and
I am a multi-market day trader, specialising in highly correlated evolved into a multi-market day trader. I made the transition
futures and exchange-traded funds. My style is chart based. My because I was not suited to single-market trend trading. I kept
getting blindsided. So I kept looking at the directions from which I disagree with the absolutism of the saying. Every outcome is not
I was being blindsided. My appreciation of how markets are necessarily the desired outcome. Success in trading is proof of a
connected grew. I began following multiple markets: debt (US 30- desire to succeed but failure is not necessarily proof of a desire to
year Treasury bonds and Eurodollars), equity (the NASDAQ 100 fail. Day trading in particular is a complex skill. Outcomes depend
Index, S&P 500 Index plus five US equity sectors, and an index on an effective combination of ambition, effort, knowledge, tools,
representing German, mainland Chinese and Japanese equities rules, discipline and ability (change this aspect list according to
respectively), FX (euro FX, EUR/USD), metals (gold, copper), and your individualised needs as a trader); you get according to your
energy (crude oil West Texas Intermediate). Now I follow all of the combinations net effectiveness. If you are failing, examine each
above and shift my money to each days best, cleanest trade(s). aspect. If you are succeeding, take no aspect for granted. What I
My favourite is the market or sector (long or short) I should be in at get from day trading is the satisfaction of maintaining a fascinating,
a given moment. difficult skill.
What makes your trading style different from others? How has trading affected your lifestyle?
What sets you apart from other traders? I used to be a night person. I often stayed up late and went to bed
I have counted eighty-four different ways to look at price movement. at 3am Eastern Time (I live in New York City). Now I am a morning
My style blends a handful of the eighty-four. Individually no part of person. I look to go to bed at 8pm Eastern Time and get up at 3am
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