51 Essential Swing Trading Posts From 2015

This has been an incredible year for both me and this blog. Personally, I hit a major level in my trading accounts, moved my family to San Diego, mentored 14 new students, continued to run the part-time swing trading program over at my former student's industry leading website and started a new significant income stream through day trading.

Specifically with this blog, I made a conscious effort to focus this blog on the mental aspect of swing trading. Judging from my inbox, these posts have had a major impact on many of you.

Let's review some of the best posts. I've divided them into two categories: the "mental game" and "setups". One sentence accompanies each post, giving you it's essence. 

Without further ado, here are 51 killer trading posts that are guaranteed to increase your swing trading IQ.

The Mental Game

• 5 Steps That Will Save Time and Create the Perfect Swing Trading Watchlist: It's all about taking a holistic approach to trading and not relying on scans.
• 9 Steps to Making Your 2016 Trading Goals Stick: This is how you actually achieve your goals.
• How to Embrace Your Fear in Trading: The Trading Intelligentsia Has it Wrong: Don't worry about what everybody else says you are supposed to do, and the right kind of fear is a good thing.
• The Art of Learning to Trade: Become a Master and Not A Jeopardy Contestant: The importance of mastery and the unimportance of trading "knowledge".
• When you have the courage to do what you love, even your friends will call you a fool: You must believe in yourself to succeed in the trading game.
• It's scary buying the dip and what ever happened to the Zune: Every great stock had deep pullback due to irrational fears.
• Why are you trading low quality stocks and setups: Only trade the best setups.
• The Trader I Strive To Be: Focus on your strengths.
• How's Microsoft Doing?: Ridiculous dinner conversation all traders deal with.
• Market Speculator FAQ: What Indicators Do You Use?: It's all about price action and volume.
• Trading should be fun: Happiness leads to good decisions.
• The part-time trader advantage: Watching the market less has advantages.
• Swing Trading Smart Tips: Set It and Forget It: Walk away and let the stock do its thing.
• 100 Trading Quotes To Put Into Action And Change Your Life: The Series Begins: Series of trading quotes begins.
• 100 Trading Quotes To Put Into Action And Change Your Life: Paul Tudor Jones on Limiting Pain: Pain leads to bad decisions.
• 100 Trading Quotes To Put Into Action And Change Your Life: Caution Is A Risk: Too much caution leads to opportunity loss.
• 100 Trading Quotes To Put Into Action And Change Your Life: Bruce Lee On Creating Opportunity: Even bad markets have opportunity.
• 100 Trading Quotes To Put Into Action And Change Your Life: Machiavelli On Risk Management: Even the most aggressive traders protect themselves.
• 100 Trading Quotes To Put Into Action And Change Your Life: Michael Jordan on Limits and Trading Scared: Fear is an illusion that limits traders.
• 100 Trading Quotes To Put Into Action And Change Your Life: Will Smith On The Past, Present and Future: My story and being in the present.
• Psychological warfare for traders the Arnold Schwarzenegger way: Psychological battle and getting your mind right.
• How to overcome the fear of entering market pullbacks: Buying market pullbacks is hard but profitable.
• Cash as a position and why the best thieves never get caught: Always take the easy route in trading.
• Trading is a decision making game: Simplify the process: Simplify in order to make better decisions.
• The $10,000 question: Why traders are hypocrites about trading goals and blow up their accounts: Why traders blow up accounts and what we tell ourselves we want versus reality.
• Winning traders have a secret crystal ball: let me show you how to get yours: Increasing probabilities make it look like you can see the future.
• Stop gunning: The most frustrating aspect of swing trading: How to deal with dreaded stop gunning.
• The Power of One Winning Trade and Getting Your Mind Right: One winning trade builds confidence and starts a new trend.
• The smart way traders use Twitter: Getting past the love-hate relationship: Using twitter the right way.
• You must adapt to changing stock market conditions and how I almost killed my swing trading career: To beat the market you must constantly adapt.

Practical Setups, Strategy and Trades

• How to identify explosive bottom formation breakouts: Money flow and when the downtrend is over.
• 20 of your favorite swing trade stocks analyzed: Video analyzing twitter stock chart requests.
• 2 Smart Tips to Enter Pullbacks in Parobolic Breakout Stocks: How to enter stocks that are moving.
• Essential Steps for Shorting SPY and The Stock Market: It's all about the signal.
• The Common Sense Approach to Swing Trading Apple: A Measured Move: Clean breakouts give us measured moves.
• Chart of the Day: Facebook and the Round Number Breakout: Round numbers are psychological barriers.
• How to Trade During Market Selloffs and the Power of Support: The hardest, but most profitable entry.
• Chart of the Day: PANW and Relative Strength During Market Selloffs: Know which stocks handle post market selloff the best.
• Chart of the Day: How to Trade VIX: VIX is the trading vehicle during selloffs.
• Chart of the day: GOOGL and the moving average remount: Bread and butter setup.
• Chart of the day: AMAZON and the new high breakout: New highs signal next run.
• Stock Chart of the Day: IBB: Biotech was key in 2015.
• Chart of the day: PYPL: IPO stock everybody is watching.
• Chart of the day: GOOGL Revisited: W patterns.
• Chart of the day: Guidance Software: Breakouts.
• Chart of the day: Sketchers: Great example of the earnings breakout.
• Chart of the day: ULTA and the post breakout trading range: Trading the post breakout trading range.
• Ugly Chart of the day: BABA: Sometimes ugly charts are the best charts.
• How to Identify and Trade A Market Short Signal: Must know even if not trading it.
• Example of a Winning Trade and Smart Risk Management: SHAK: The golden rule.
• 21 profitable stock trading setups and the optimal conditions to trade them: Smart traders know certain setups work best in specific markets.