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Disciplined Trading Strategies
Disciplined Trading Strategies is an educational trading podcast focused on helping traders and investors develop the knowledge, discipline, and decision-making skills needed to navigate the markets more effectively. Paul Lange breaks down technical analysis, price action, trade setups, risk management, trading psychology, market preparation, and common trading mistakes while challenging conventional wisdom and misconceptions about how markets work. What makes the show different is its emphasis…
Episodes
- Disciplined Trading Strategies
The Difference Between a Watch and a Trade
A stock makes it onto your watch list, but does that mean it’s a trade? In fact, most stocks on your watch list are unlikely to even be considered as trades…
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Getting to Targets
Understanding price action, finding good chart setups, and identifying reasonable target areas are among the first skills every new trader needs to learn. But…
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Lessons From Coaching Sessions
After years of coaching traders, Paul has seen certain problems surface again and again—often without the traders themselves recognizing them. In this episode…
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To Take No Action is an Action
Does successful trading always require taking action? Many traders feel they should be doing something whenever the market is open—but that instinct may be…
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DTS Trading Quick Tips Part 3
On the Disciplined Trading Strategies resource page, down at the bottom, I have what are called 21 Trading Quick Tips. These have slowly accumulated over…
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DTS Trading Quick Tips Part 2
On the Disciplined Trading Strategies resource page, near the bottom, there is a section called 21 Trading Quick Tips. These tips have slowly accumulated over…
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DTS Trading Quick Tips Part 1
On the Disciplined Trading Strategies resource page, down at the bottom, I have what are called 21 Trading Quick Tips. These have slowly accumulated over…
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What Holds All Traders Back
Most podcasts are on specific individual topics. I know a lot of you have listened to many or all of them, but even if you have, it is sometimes difficult to…
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McDonald's Days
This is a much bigger deal than the quiet title may be indicating to you. And I imagine the title brought about a little curiosity, and you probably have some…
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Diversification and Leverage
This episode is a practical look at two topics that are not directly related, but are often misunderstood: diversification and leverage. Diversification is…
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A Common Sense Warning
This episode is a brief common-sense reminder about staying aware, thinking clearly, and not getting too comfortable IF or when conditions may be changing. It…
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A Beginner's Guide to Trading
If you’re new to trading, this is where you start. Before you ever place a trade, there are a few things you must understand, from choosing the right broker…
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The Real Purpose of Scanning
If you’re new, scanning is the process of taking a large number of symbols and narrowing them down to a smaller group by identifying the characteristics you…
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Averaging Down — The Trade That May Never End
The term averaging can be confusing for newer traders. In simple terms, it means entering a stock at one price and then adding more shares later, which creates…
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Strategies from a Cookbook
Due to the holidays, it's been an extra couple of weeks since my last podcast. This one actually came as an offshoot from the last DTS educational event I did…
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FOMO in Trading - Summary of Demons
This one was inspired by many questions I received. In this episode, I break down one of the biggest trading demons we all face — FOMO. I talk about how fear…
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That Good Trade May Not Be So Good
In this episode, I dive into the trap of judging trades by their results. Sometimes we get rewarded for doing something sloppy, and other times we take a…
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Trading Plans Follow Up
Two podcasts ago, I talked about trading plans for the first time in this series. Now, it’s not because trading plans aren’t important — they’re actually…
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The PDT Rule Abolished - Likely
The Pattern Day Trader Rule essentially prevents people from day trading stocks unless they have a $25,000 balance. This rule was enacted in 2001 and was…
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Trading Plans – Just Some Tips
In all this time, this is Podcast 68, I have not had a full presentation on trading plans. The answer is partly because I just haven’t gotten around to it yet…
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Timeframes - How The Money Works
A while back I did a podcast that was simply titled “Time frames” which discussed some of the basics and what you may choose to focus on as a trader. This…
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Risk Management v. Trade Management
While on one hand this may seem like a fairly basic topic, I get a lot of questions that let me know that a lot of traders are confused about risk management…
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Five Biggest Pitfalls for Active Trader-Investors
Sorry about using one of those “top-five” titles. But that’s what this one is. It’s a new topic to discuss these as a group, but naturally each one of these…
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Helpful Comments to Aspiring Traders
There is an entire category of comments you’re not likely to ever hear when you’re learning to trade. That is because they are unsavory and not things a lot of…
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Recent False Perceptions
Some recent events and a new DTS Question of the Week email sparked several comments and questions that generated this podcast topic. I don’t want to describe…
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Oh Those Bots... Algos and AI
While it is not normally the case, this podcast is a takeoff from an hour-long live DTS Educational Event I did last week. The reason I’m doing that is because…
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Markets, Crashes, and Ponzis
This episode touches on the importance of understanding market pullbacks/corrections/all-out crashes even though the market is up the majority of time both…
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A Bigger Picture Look at Price Movement
Most traders are wired to trade a certain way. Everything is a “breakout” to them whether it occurs on a weekly chart or a one minute chart. That poor wiring…
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More on Trading Psychology
While I have done an awful lot of podcasts, none are directly titled about psychology. This one says “More on Trading Psychology” because it has been mentioned…
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Living Through a Pullback
This is a very timely discussion I think most of you will appreciate. It discusses several things including the different ways that traders can handle an…
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Strategies v Reading a Chart
This is a higher-level discussion that you all may not relate to. If you are new, you may simply tune out as it seems like a bit of an abstract discussion. But…
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When Your Hairstylist Is Buying Tesla -A Deeper Look into Technical Analysis
When your hairstylist is buying Tesla. Is that part of technical analysis? My first for podcasts I discussed why about 6% of the world does not even need to…
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Trading: Correlation v Causation
I have mentioned these two words in at least one or two other prior podcasts. I received a couple questions about what exactly I mean when I use these words in…
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You Don't Have to Be a Genius
This is actually a great topic. Yes, this is episode 54, and I’m still calling things great topics as if they should’ve been the first thing you heard. There…
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Let's Talk About Using Stops
Note for the faint of heart… A quick word if you are very new. When a trader takes a trade, that trader will always (should always) have a point at which they…
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Learning From the Internet
The Internet is obviously a very useful tool for many things. But how useful is it in the endeavor to learn special skills, like learning the skill of trading…
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The ONLY 2 Times That Psychology Matters
You may be curious about the phrasing of the title of this episode. Because it kind of implies that there’s only certain times that psychology matters. To be…
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Slippage - An Advanced Talk
This is a more advanced talk, at least for a podcast. On the DisciplineTradingStrategies.com website this is on the free stuff page, in the educational videos…
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Missed Money
I love this title because it has some different implications depending upon where you are in the trading world. If you’re kind of new you may just be excited…
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Perseverance
My last podcast was largely technical, at least as technical as you can get in a podcast. It was about understanding some of the concepts and misconceptions…
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The Concept of Trend
A lot of clichés exist in trading. One of the more common ones is the common-sense notion of following the trend. It is one of the very few good clichés, and…
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The Use of Options
As a podcast, this of course will not be a detailed lesson on exactly how to make money from options. However, there will be some great information discussed…
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Overtrading
In the DTS seminar program there is a discussion near the end about pitfalls that new traders may run into. The first pitfall is listed as overtrading. The…
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The Top Fear Explained
You likely already know that emotions play a big part in trading, no matter how much of a cool cucumber you think you are. And we all know those emotions are…
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How a Trader Spends Their Time
Whether you are a new and developing trader, or an experienced trader, the use of your time is a very important facet. And this is one category where the more…
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The Psychology of Losing
New traders get knocked out of the game because they don’t take their stops. You probably heard that 5000 times if you spent even one hour researching the…
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Excuses
This episode has two purposes. First it is to set the record straight about what many traders use as excuses for their own poor trading. The list is long and…
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Rules and Expectations
When you start listening to this podcast you will hear the actual quote about rules and expectations. That quote actually comes from Mark Douglas, who is the…
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How We Learn as Traders-Humans
This is definitely what I consider to be one of those “soft” topics when it comes to trading. It actually is about the learning process that we go through as…
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Two Comments on Common Sense
Yes, there are two very different comments about common sense in the markets. We need to draw a very hard line between preparing yourself for exactly what you…
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Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
A self-fulfilling prophecy is a prediction that comes true because someone believes or expects it to come true. This concept is very alive and well in trading…
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Long versus Short
This podcast is about the difference between being “long” stock positions and being “short” stock positions. It’s going to come to you at several different…
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The Risk Unit
Okay, this may be a little bit of a boring topic for a podcast. At least to the average person. However, as I have mentioned in some prior podcasts, oftentimes…
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Patience
Lack of patience is probably one of the greatest trader-killers out there. If that grabs your attention, it should. In my experience, when a trader starts to…
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Learn as a Pro Day ONE
Don’t let the title fool you, this has great information. If you are going to learn how to trade, there are many pitfalls. There are enough natural pitfalls…
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Use of Technical Indicators
• This is important enough for its own podcast. • Formal definition – from two different sources. • Simple definition. • What is NOT a technical Indicator. •…
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The Shocking Way to View the Market
This podcast is short and sweet and to the point. The more complete title should be, “the absolute way you must view the market to make money, which would…
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What is the Best Setup
I don’t want to give anything away but some of you who have been listening for a while may be thinking that there is a little sarcasm in the title of this…
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Management Is More Than Critical
In almost anything you read or listen to about trading, you will likely read or hear that trade management is important. This is not accurate. Trade management…
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Why the Pundits Seem Right
There is a section called “Look for the Pitfalls That Stop Most” that is toward the end of the free course that I do for everybody called, Introduction to…