," went on to have a trading career that includes a 14-year span that started in the 1970s and the current ongoing 13-year span that restarted in 2006.
As charts become"much less reliable" than they were during the 1970s and 1980s, Brandt has switched from trading one- to four-week patterns to trading eight- to 26-week patterns. He has also become more selective and would only trade patterns where the breakout is through a, which allows traders to"find out much more quickly whether you are right or wrong."
"The fun of trading had left me at that point. Trading had become drudgery," he said."I was feeling the discrepancy between how I was performing and how I knew I could perform. That gap was emotionally difficult for me to live with."In 2006, Brandt returned to trading after an 11-year hiatus. He was gone for so long that the world had transitioned to electronic trading, but his trading strategies and rules still applied.
."If I have an open profit of $1800 per contract on a trade with a target of $2,000," he said,"why would I risk giving it all back to make the extra $200?"
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