TradersLog 
We have established gold’s critical role as the backbone of monetary systems. Hopefully there is an understanding at this point that your personal assets should likewise be backed by something real. The logical question remains, how should one acquire this misunderstood asset?
After finding rules that work, many traders are tempted to optimize the parameters. This is easy to do, and is the beginning of the end of many solid trading plans.
A trade can be very “right” in every logical way if your valuation of the underlying asset or your analysis of the chart pattern was done correctly … but if your opinion gets crossways with the larger flow of money in or out of that market, your subsequent losses will feel very “wrong.”
Many investors look for help when picking investments. One tool people use is the quarterly filing of institutional investment managers called form 13(f).
I’m sure you’ve heard the saying to become a successful trader you must “treat trading like a business.” Setting up a trading entity correctly is an important step if you are a business trader whose full-time position is (currently or soon to be) trading the markets.