Edition 1070
March 28, 2025
Learn the Art of Trading Joe Ross' Way!
"The second half of a losing trader’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half." -- Master Trader Joe Ross
Master Trader Joe Ross
Author, Trader, Trading Mentor, and Founder of Trading Educators, Inc.
Developer of Instant Income Guaranteed
Chart Scan with Commentary: Information Overload
A mistake we see a lot of traders making is that of wanting and seeking too much information. Whereas you cannot have too much information when you are trading as a fundamentals analyst, you must avoid having too much information if you are going to trade as a technical or chart analyst.
The reason for this is that too much information leads to conflict and conflicting information leads to confusion. Confusion in turn leads to your inability to pull the trigger on a trade.
At Trading Educators, we teach that in most instances you should take your entry signal from a larger time frame and then if you wish, you can manage the trade on a lesser time frame. Other than with special methods for day trading, taking signals from the daily chart has never changed for me in all the decades I've been trading. But read carefully what I said above" take your entry signal from a larger time frame."
If you try to take your entry signal by comparing the larger time frame where you will take your entry signal with the time frame on which you will manage the trade, you will far too often end up doing nothing and missing the trade.
The first chart below shows the daily euroBritish Pound pair as it stood on a Friday before the Open. In my opinion, this chart clearly signals taking a short position. We are seeing an inside bar reversal following a failure to meet the March high. In fact it might be said that prices have moved up too fast and are due for a correction.
However the second chart, which shows the same currency pair on a 60-minute chart with the 7am - 8am price bar just completed offers a picture of confusion. It conflicts with what you see on the daily chart. Comparing the two will almost surely end up in hesitation and a missed trade.
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Master Trader Joe Ross
Author, Trader, Trading Mentor, and Founder of Trading Educators, Inc.
Developer of Instant Income Guaranteed
Trading Article: Risk Tolerance: Knowing Your Limitations and Working Around Them
Winning traders know how to tolerate risk. Trading outcomes are far from definite, but they don't mind. They have no problem putting on trade after trade and doing so with grace and nonchalance. However, not everyone can live up to this standard. Many novice traders have trouble taking a risk, even a small one. They either avoid executing a trade, or when they do, they find it excruciating to monitor the trade as they wait to see if their profit objective will be reached. Depending on your background and personality, you may have trouble tolerating risk. But don't let it dash your hopes of making profits. You can develop a way to work around a low tolerance for risk.
When you find risk taking particularly fearful, it's hard to concentrate. You are continually on edge and tempted to close out a trade just to end the uneasiness. Part of risk tolerance is biological and part of it is socially learned.
Some people are easily agitated and once they become anxious, they find it difficult to calm down. They continue to remain anxious and on edge, even when a threatening event has passed. If you are easily agitated, it's useful to take precautions to reduce your propensity for overstimulation. The mind and body go together and there are many ways to reduce your overall level of agitation. For example, if you exercise, avoid caffeine, meditate, eat nutritiously and get plenty of rest, you will stay more relaxed. That said, it's hard to fight biology. If you've always been the kind of person who gets...read more.
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This newsletter and future publications are created to keep Master Trader Joe Ross' lessons readily available to traders that want to learn and improve their skills and to show his written word is still very relevant in today's trading world. He passed away on September 7, 2021 and will be greatly missed, but his writings will stand the test of time for generations to come. Take it to heart and learn from the best through Joe Ross' trading examples and articles which have impacted thousands of traders on every continent for over 60 years. Enjoy and let's start learning the art of trading Joe Ross' way.
Professional Trader Andy Jordan
Educator for Spreads, Options, Swing, and Day Trading, and Editor for 20+ years with Traders Notebook, daily advisory newsletter.
The last episode of our Trading Plan Series Andy talks about the "typical part" of a trading plan the entry strategies and setups.
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Professional Trader Marco Mayer
Educator for Forex, Futures and Systematic Trader
Creator of Ambush Trading Method, Ambush Signals, and Head of AlgoStrats.com
Learn all you need to know about our new Ambush Signals service during this presentation by Marco Mayer. What is the Ambush System, what's the idea behind it and how does Ambush Signals make trading Ambush so much easier! Find out more about Ambush and Ambush Signals at http://ambush-signals.com
Marco Mayer announced in 2016 a new AlgoStrats service was launched: Ambush Signals for Futures. This is how it all got started....read more.
The Ambush Trading System was created in 2009 by Marco Mayer. Since then it proved itself in the markets for over a decade and did so with exceptional results. It's the only trading system we're aware of that is still going strong after so many years. While Ambush is a day trading system, meaning you will always enter and exit on the same trading day - you don't have to sit in front of your trading screen. You simply place your entry orders when the trading session starts and come back at the close!
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Even though Master Trader Joe Ross passed away September 7, 2021, his trading knowledge of over 60 years will carry a trading legacy and will live on. As you learn about Joe Ross and understand what he was trying to teach his students, you will find that within his writings, he had a very special gift. Most importantly, it was his students that kept him striving to provide comprehendable trading material to actually teach traders and become independent, to rely on anyone, but themselves.
Joe Ross has been trading and investing since his first trade at the age of 14, and is a well known Master Trader and Investor. He was able to survive all the up and downs of the markets because of his adaptable trading style, using a low-risk approach that produces consistent profits.
Joe is the creater of the Ross Hook™ and has set new standards for low-risk trading with his concepts of "The Law of Charts™" and the "Traders Trick Entry™." Joe was a private trader and investor for much of his life, but a serious health situation in the late 80's caused him to shift his focus, and that is when he decided to share his knowledge. After his recovery, he founded Trading Educators in 1988, to teach aspiring traders how to make profits using his trading approach.
Joe Ross has written twelve major books and countless articles and essays about trading. All his books have become classics, and have been translated into many different languages. His students from around the world number in the thousands. His file of letters containing thanks and appreciation from students on every continent is huge: As one student, a successful trader, wrote: "Your mastery of teaching is even greater than my mastery of trading".
Joe Ross holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of California at Los Angeles. He did his Masters work in Computer Sciences at the George Washington University extension in Norfolk, Virginia. He is listed in "Who's Who in America." After 5 decades of trading and investing, Joe Ross still tutors, teaches, writes, and trades regularly. Joe is an active and integral part of Trading Educators. He is the founder and contributor of the company's newsletter Chart Scan™.
Learn the Art of Trading Joe Ross' Way!
"The second half of a losing trader’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half." -- Master Trader Joe Ross
Joe's philosophy for helping traders is:
"Teach our students the truth in trading - teach them how to trade."
and
"Give them a way to earn while they learn - realizing that it takes time to develop a successful trader."
Joe sets forth the mission of Trading Educators as follows:
To show aspiring futures traders the truth in trading by teaching them how to read a chart so that they can successfully trade what they see, and by revealing to them all of the insider knowledge they need in order to understand the markets.
To enable them to trade profitably by training them to properly manage their trades as well as their mindset and self-control.
To accomplish our mission for our students we educate them so that they know and understand:
Benefits for Our Clients:
- Where prices are likely to move next.
- Independence from complicated trading methods, magic indicators, and black-box systems.
- Independence from opinion, anyone's opinion, including their own.
- Independence achieved through knowing how to read a chart.
- Independence through having knowledge of insider actions.
- Independence achieved by taking holistic and eclectic approaches.
- Independence coming from knowing how to manage both the trades and themselves.
- Independence because they understand and trade what they see.
- Independence because they have learned how and why prices move as they do, through studying the truth in trading and the truth about markets.
Students learn only proven methods and techniques, which helps them to preserve capital and create more consistent profits; they are offered simple methods that will assist them to earn while they learn.
- They learn to work smarter and more effectively.
- They learn to treat trading as a business; we offer no Holy Grail or magic systems.
- They learn to adapt to changing market conditions.
- They learn a systematic approach to trading rather than a mechanical system for trading.
- Why prices will move there.
- Who and what cause prices to move.
- How far prices are likely to move when they do move.
- Their own role in the movement of prices..
- How to take advantage of the knowledge they receive.
- How to properly manage and exit a trade which they have entered.
- How to manage themselves and acquire the discipline needed to become successful traders.
Read some personal testimonials which Joe has received.
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Dear Traders,
Master Trader Joe Ross passed away September 2021, and prior years he was continously sending me folders filled with Chart Scan and Trading Articles. The emails would be titled "More to follow" and I would reply, "Keep'em coming". I am calling these lessons "hidden vault" material because if Joe were still alive, this is exactly what would be shown in your inbox every Friday morning. This is not regurgitated material; this is new stuff written by Joe or as he would refer to it with such passion, "This is good stuff".
As we continue to receive newsletter sign ups, new students from every continent will start to learn trading Joe's way especially in this challenging market. This is where he would reinforce to his students, yes, that includes you, that learning to trade is possible even in this environment, "A chart, is a chart, is a chart". His writings will stand the test of time to provide teaching lessons and guidance.
The proceeds of Trading Educators will continue to support Joe's wife, Loretta, of 62 years of marriage, which she is our number one priority. We thank everyone with continued support and prayers for her well-being in late stages of dementia.
As expressed in the past editions, the trading world has lost a unique and passionate trader and his material will continue to be relevant. Let's start learning to trade Joe Ross' way with our future Chart Scan publications. I am here to help, so feel free to email me with any comments, questions or concerns.
This newsletter and future publications are created to keep Master Trader Joe Ross' lessons readily available to traders that want to learn and improve their skills. Our father passed away on September 7, 2021 and will be greatly missed, but his writings will stand the test of time for generations to come. Take it to heart and learn from the best through Master Trader Joe Ross' trading examples and articles which have impacted thousands of traders on every continent for over 60 years.
Happy trading,
Martha Ross-Edmunds
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