The time when the market is closed is when 99% of my work is done. Review the data & prep for next session. Open markets are for executing! — Micah Yo (@micahhyo) September 17, 2016 show me on the chart where the algo touched you — StockCats (@StockCats) September 22, 2016 rumors of a $TWTR […]
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Survivorship bias, or survival bias, is the logical error of concentrating on the people or things that “survived” some process and inadvertently overlooking those that did not because of their lack of visibility. This can lead to false conclusions in several different ways. – Wikipedia There is survivor bias in looking at trading and investing
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My trading consists of signals for trading existing trends. A stock or ETF breaking out to all time highs or breaking down to all time lows after being range bound is one trend trading entry signal to go in the direction of the break out. I also use signals to buy off key supports levels in longer term
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Who is Dan Zanger? His mother Elaine loved the stock market and Dan would often watch the business channel with her. One day in 1978 Dan saw a stock explode across the ticker tape at the bottom of the screen hitting $1. He made his first purchase and sold the stock a few weeks later
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Jack Schwager’s interview with Scott Ramsey from Hedge Fund Market Wizards was very clear and to the point. Mr. Ramsey trades futures in an approach that reminded me of the Darvas techno-fundamentalist method. He looks for fundamental reasons for a trade, and then makes his entries and exits based 0n confirmation in the technical price action. “I made
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I am using the $SPX chart this week due to the skew of the quarterly dividend payout Friday on the adjusted price. It is also possible to see the unadjusted $SPY price by using the ticker _SPY on stockcharts.com. $SPX is trading in a price range of 2120 support and 2150 resistance. The 10 day
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Screening And Backtesting With Finviz Elite Limiting Losses: The Key To Long-Term Investing Success Are beliefs all that matter? Thoughts on trading psychology My Stock Is Special
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“Fear grips Wall Street as the Fed threatens to raise interest rates for the eight-hundred and sixty-fifth time” — StockCats (@StockCats) September 9, 2016 Two questions I always ask myself before placing a trade: ⏺Do I have an edge? ⏺How much can I lose? — Micah Yo (@micahhyo) September 9, 2016 “Day Traders Sleep Better”
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This is a Guest Post by Alex @MacroOps which was originally posted at Lessons from a Trading Great: Bruce Kovner. Bruce Kovner retired in 2011 from Caxton Associates, the hedge fund he founded and ran for 28 years. Over that time the fund returned an average of 21 percent a year since its inception. In comparison,
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Regardless of whether you are a trend follower, day trader, swing trader, value investor, or growth investor, profitable trading requires one thing to make any trading process work long term. Successful stock market operations require studying the principles that lead to making money, you have to do the work. When you understand the principles of
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