How to Develop Your "Trader's Intuition" Mike’s note: Mike Merson here, Larry’s managing editor. Today, Larry delivers an honest insight on his time as a beginner trader… And the hard lessons he learned. He wasn’t always a "Hedge Fund Market Wizard"… In fact, he started out as just a regular kid on the CBOE trading floor with $10,000 to trade. But now, some of Larry’s biggest one-day winners include: $9,990,153… $6,031,768… $8,054,552…$4,196,710… even $12,243,021. (And tomorrow night, he’s revealing the results of one of the biggest bets in his career… Sign up here to save your seat.) Today you’ll read about his transition from a newbie to a blue-chip expert… Read on to learn what sets a successful trader apart from the rest...
How to Develop Your “Trader’s Intuition” By Larry Benedict When I started out trading, I wanted to be a master of the universe. I wanted to trade, and beat, every single market sector. The indexes, bonds, currencies, soybeans… you name it. I just wanted to outperform everything and everyone. I bet you can imagine how that turned out. Reality came crashing down... and I learned that it’s just not possible. | Recommended Link | | "I only have two options: win $70K or be 'shamed'"
Hi, my name is Larry Benedict. In basketball, we call it “leaving everything on the court…” That’s what I’m going to be doing on Wednesday, December 11th… I’m going to give you my 100% best effort as I trade for charity… My objective: to use my method—which has served me well over the years—to generate $70,000 or more in a single trading day. If I win, all the money goes to a local charity. If I lose, well, I fully expect to be heckled and shamed. To reserve your seat online to watch the show... Click here. | | | -- | The main thing I realized was you run into a lot of problems when you have too many positions. It’s common thinking that you should invest a small amount of money into a wide array of assets. But, I’m not a buy-and-hold kind of person. I just don’t have that kind of patience. While it would be great to see a 100% return on an investment in 50 years on, let’s say, one out of 40 stocks in your portfolio… I want to see that same overall return, over and over again, in the course of a week. You see, I prefer to see small gains on a frequent basis, rather than big gains I have to wait decades for. This way, I can steadily grow my cash pile and have some of that money to trade now, rather than later. As I like to say: the bigger your account, the larger your growth opportunity. Using this strategy, your profits – and profit potential – grow exponentially. While I’m usually not putting as much money towards each trade as someone else might put towards one long-term investment, my mentality has always been about grinding out a large number of smaller profits. It started out slow for me. In my first year, I was trading to earn maybe $100 per position, if I was lucky. But nowadays I’m trading much bigger lots, and making $1 million here, $4 million there, and another $5 million there… And here’s the thing… those returns are still “small” on a percentage basis. It’s just that my capital pile is much bigger now… And so are my position sizes. When long-term investors say they have a portfolio of 40-odd stocks, that looks dangerous to me. What do you do the day all 40 are down? Which one are you going to look at salvaging first? How could someone look at 40 stocks every day or week and have a broad range of exceptional knowledge of each and every one? The answer is they don’t. It’s impossible. For starters, there’s a difference between how many stocks you should become an expert on and how many positions you should put on. It’s wise to become an expert on just a handful of stocks… around 5-10. And when you’re just starting out, you should have no more than two to five trades going at any given time… Five being your absolute maximum. A trader should know everything about the stock they’re trading. What it means when the stock is weak and the market is strong, or vice versa. When its earnings calls are, how it reacts to certain news stories, the risk profile, etc. So if your stock is performing better than the market, you likely want to be long that stock. If your stock is performing worse than the market, you probably want to be short that stock. This is something I’ve implemented my entire career. Back in the day, when I was working at different firms, each trader always had one sector. There was an oil trader, a tech trader, a healthcare trader… everyone was an expert on their respective sector. Even in the trading pits, no one traded more than one stock. You would stand in the pit of just one stock and trade it all day. So, I wasn’t trading tech because “Steve” was trading tech and it seemed like a winner. I stuck to what I knew. And at the time, that was the top 20-50 blue-chip stocks. I watched them every single day. So, if I were trading Apple, I’d know every move Apple has made. I wouldn’t need a chart to tell me where it’s headed. I would know everything, top to bottom, about Apple. Now, knowing those 20-50 stocks like the back of my hand took some time. Even learning everything about Apple took time. So, when you’re starting out, pick just one stock of one company, and learn everything you can about it. Get to the point where you can anticipate its next move… where it becomes part of your intuition. Then, do it again… and again… until you have a solid repertoire of stocks that you know better than anyone. And once you do, you’ll be leagues ahead of most other traders out there. Regards, Larry Benedict P.S. My trading career spans 35 years. I’ve ran a billion-dollar hedge fund and even enjoyed a 20-year win streak from 1990 to 2010. My firm never had a single losing year during that time. And now I want to give you a rare look at how I make such consistent profits… Tomorrow night, at 8 P.M., you’ll be able to watch me take part in America’s First-Ever Trade-a-Thon, where I’ll share the results of my challenge to make $70,000 for charity in a single trading session… This is something I’ve never seen done before… And I’m excited to share the result. Plus, everyone who attends my Trade-a-Thon will receive a free copy of my Foolproof 50 – the 50 stocks every trader should have on their watchlist each trading day. To claim your copy, reserve your spot to the event right here… In Case You Missed It… On Wednesday, December 11th, Larry Benedict will try to make $70,000 in 3 hours. But BEFORE you watch, today I want to explain what Larry plans to do with his profits that day, and what it means for your wealth. You may not agree with Larry’s plan… But today, he’s personally inviting you to have a look. I’ll give you a hint… After making $274 million, Larry knows he’s been lucky in life. (Although, is it really luck when you go for 20 years without losing money? He’s one of the greatest traders ever, profiled alongside billionaires Ray Dalio and John Templeton.) But… Larry believes in “giving back.” So he’s agreed to do something VERY SURPRISING with the $70,000 profit he hopes to make in our December 11th Trade-a-Thon. See for yourself here… and what it means for you. 
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