About Richard Weissman
Richard Weissman is a professional trader with over thirty years’ experience. He has provided private consultations and training to traders and risk managers for twenty years. In addition to trading, Weissman serves as a Senior Instructor with the DTN Institute, where he teaches trading and risk courses. Weissman’s first book, Mechanical Trading Systems, was published by John Wiley & Sons in 2004. His second book, Trade Like a Casino: Find Your Edge, Manage Risk, and Win Like the House, was selected as a Finalist for the Technical Analyst 2012 Book of the Year Award.
Show Notes
- Introduction
- The three things you can guarantee in the market and its application in real life.
- Why Richard gets excited when the market is boring.
- How to become at peace, whether the market up or down.
- How to minimize the risk by focusing on the things you can control
- How to not let emotions get in your own way.
- The #1 lesson that Richard learned from the market crash in 1987 stick with him until today.
- What was Richard's first successful trading model?
- The two things that helped Richard to gain more confidence in his trading.
- How to deal with emotional pain in trading
- The one subject that he read every single book about
- The market wizard's interviews that impacted his trading journey
- How to embody unwavering decipline without being rigid.
- How to have an open mind and learn when to be flexible and when to be rigid.
- How did he gain the title "I don't care" guy
- The one subject that he read every single book about
- When did Richard decide to return to his first love (writing fiction)
- How your beliefs about money and self-worth can impact your trading
- How to connect with Richard: https://www.dtn.com/energy/education-and-consulting/
