We are not in Kansas anymore, Toto. Just as Dorothy learned that Oz was different than Kansas, new traders, perma-bulls, and buy-and-hold investors are learning that a downtrend and market correction is not the same as a bull market or range bound market. Oversold levels can become more oversold, lows can get lower, and price support […]
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Trader Profile: Meet John Walsh, the Cabbie Trader The article is shared here with permission from Steve LaMoine at The Turtle Follower I am extremely excited to bring another layer of education to the blog. Over the next few months I have lined up interviews from top traders within the trading world. Some are trend
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I have been active in the stock market in some form for over 20 years. I have made money in several different ways, looking for a good fit for my personality that allowed me to accomplish my life goals. I started as a mutual fund investor and evolved into a trader of stocks and options. My trading
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$SPY is currently in a correction after falling over 10% from all time highs. The 5 day EMA has been the end of day resistance for all of 2016 as $SPY has been in a strong short term downtrend. On Friday the $SPY bounced near a triple bottom support line. Friday’s candlestick was a bullish
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Markets YTD pic.twitter.com/CzTlZavr9g — Rudolf E. Havenstein (@RudyHavenstein) January 15, 2016 We are at major support right here. Look at the chart. pic.twitter.com/woLP4H6hPH — 3:30 Ramp Capital™ (@RampCapitalLLC) January 15, 2016 Most of the good traders I know are making a deliberate effort to stay away from the screens. — Assad Tannous (@AsennaWealth) January 13,
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Good trading is very basic; it’s trading with an edge to capture a trend in your own time frame, while managing your risk exposure carefully with the right position sizing and stop loss. There are endless ways to trade badly. You can change these if you make an effort and become self-aware. Be on the lookout
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2015 was a range bound market that lacked breadth. A few stocks like Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google, and Microsoft held up a weak internal stock market. 2016 went into a quick correction of over 10% from all-time highs. The energy sector and oil continues to go lower and lower. Small caps have fallen below
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You will definitely lose money in the stock market. The only questions are when and how much? The best strategies lead to small losses when they occur. A better question might be, “After I lose money, then what?” Then you will have learned lessons that better prepare you to make money in the future. Well, if
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There was a question asked on finance Twitter recently by a wealth advisor that went something like this: “Okay, so you got out of the stock market and into cash in your 401K, so when do you get back in?” Portfolio managers believe in the long term, with asset diversification and quarterly rebalancing of your stock holdings
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