Ideas and Inspirations for a Monday

* Excellent post on what winners do to win;

* Five qualities I look for in a successful new trader;

* Reflections on risk and an ETF update;

* What it means when important levels in the market hold;

* Findings on what works best among investing approaches;

* What happens when VIX goes from overbought to oversold;

* A look at the market's recent bear traps;

* Excellent ETF overview each week;

* Thoughts on investment and dollar cost averaging;

* Trading monthly historical patterns that show up in markets;

* Banks holding excess reserves and what that might mean.

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