The Traders Journal

Bio Image
About the author: , MBA, CMT, is a veteran full-time stock market investor who has traded his own account since 1989 unburdened by the distraction of clients. He holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, is a past president of the Technical Securities Analysts Association (TSAA), and is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). After several successful entrepreneurial business ventures, Gatis retired in his early 40s to focus on investing in the financial markets. With consistent success as a stock market trader, he began teaching investments at the post-college level in 2000 and continues to do so today. Learn More

Bio Image
About the author: is the author of Trading for Dummies and Tensile Trading: The 10 Essential Stages of Stock Market Mastery. He is also the Director of Operations at StockCharts.com and the co-founder of Stock Market Mastery. Grayson speaks regularly at investment seminars across the country, including to organizations such as the CMT Association and the American Association of Individual Investors (AAII). He holds a Bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College, where he studied Economics and Psychology. Learn More

Latest Posts

The Traders Journal

Blog Article Title Image

The 10 Key Investing Lessons From Two Decades Of Teaching (1999 - 2019)

by Gatis Roze

After 20 years of teaching at over 200 continuing education classes, dozens of seminars and conferences and many other events, I've seen, heard, read, and watched it all...Read More 

The Traders Journal

Blog Article Title Image

Market Correction Coming: Here's Your Action Plan

by Gatis Roze

If you don't really know yourself, the market is an expensive place to learn about your "Investor Self". This axiom is most essential and relevant during a market correction...Read More 

The Traders Journal

Blog Article Title Image

Don't Be A Mystery Box Investor: Blending Technicals, Fundamentals and Observationals For A More Stable Approach

by Grayson Roze

Quick, don't think, just answer – what's your favorite thing about investing? I can't answer for you, but I can tell you mine. I admit it, I have a problem. I'm a true stock junkie through 'n through. I love the markets. I love the whole system of it...Read More 

The Traders Journal

Blog Article Title Image

Your Shortcut to Stock Market Mastery: ChartPack Update #25 (Q3 / 2019)

by Gatis Roze, Grayson Roze

Investing is like a plumbing game. For this reason, the organization and organization of your ChartLists, along with your routines, matter big time! Figuring out where the funds are flowing and adjusting your piping system accordingly is the key objective...Read More 

The Traders Journal

Blog Article Title Image

Why Pick Stocks Over ETFs or Mutual Funds? My Personal Five Most Compelling Reasons

by Gatis Roze

Yes, this is personal. I'll share my own portfolio experiences from the past 25 years. Feel free to embrace those elements that strike you as most appropriate to your investing style...Read More 

The Traders Journal

Blog Article Title Image

Hail To The Sell-Side Savant: My Mentor

by Gatis Roze

I lost a mentor in September. Justin Mamis, who taught me how to formulate and engage my sell techniques, passed away at the age of 90. The lessons he taught me were the foundation for Stage Nine — the art of selling — in our book. I owe him an immeasurable debt of gratitude...Read More 

The Traders Journal

Blog Article Title Image

The Crisis of Complexity: A Solution

by Gatis Roze

Here's an important lesson I've learned. I'll call it the "crisis of complexity". There is something about most investors that makes them have an insatiable appetite for complexity. In reality, complexity is not the hoped-for portfolio accelerator — it is instead the detonator...Read More 

The Traders Journal

Blog Article Title Image

Examples of Exit Disciplines Are All Around Us: Pay Attention!

by Gatis Roze

You board any airplane today and before it takes off, the flight attendants review all the exits with you. Cruise ships do life boat drills before departure. Exits on trains and buses are also clearly marked and labeled for emergencies...Read More 

The Traders Journal

Blog Article Title Image

Investing With Metaphors: These Three Are Giants!

by Gatis Roze

A personal secret: investing with metaphors has always enlightened and disciplined me, helping me grow as an individual investor. One of the most fertile areas for applying this axiom has been car collecting since, much like investing, it's never black and white...Read More 

The Traders Journal

Blog Article Title Image

Achieve Clarity In A Nuanced Stock Market By Maximizing Relative Strength In Three Investing Arenas

by Gatis Roze

The stock market is indeed a nuanced creature. With that in mind, I'd like to show you how to use Relative Strength to understand what this creature is actually doing...Read More