The reason trend traders make money in the long term, is due to supply and demand, and the flow of capital through equities, currencies, commodities, and future contracts. These tend to trend in one direction or the other at different times. Trend traders and trend followers are ready to capitalize on those trends by letting […]
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After the hundreds of trading books I have read and spending thirteen years actively managing my accounts I still consider Jack Schwagers Market Wizards Series the best of the best. Why? His trading books are not based on theories, opinions, predictions, or beliefs, he goes down a completely different path.
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If you want to come out as the winner in your trading adventure let the charts be your guide. For me the charts biggest translator is the moving average. It works so well because it is based on the one thing that matters the most: PRICE. But it smooths all the price noise into an
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The S & P 500 has been range bound for a week holding at the 10 day moving average as support. The problem is that it can run the full range and back in 48 hours. The market is currently range bound in a $131/$134 $SPY price box. A price break out from here
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U.S. Investing Champion Mark Minervini, who was featured in Jack Schwager’s book Stock Market Wizards, was generous enough to grant me this interview. Read on and learn from the man who has returned consistent triple digit returns in the stock market. Jack Schwager wrote in the book Stock Market Wizards; Interviews with America’s
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With the powerful reversal off the $SPY 200 day and then the comeback after the reversal day I am ready to go long. The European Union headline risk was hanging over the market causing a lot of uncertainty and confusion but with the loan to the Spanish banks approved much of this will
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The free markets do not give up profits easily. The vast majority of all traders lose money over the long term. Many studies say it is as much as 90% that are net losers after all their trading. Even investors can work very hard to end up at even after a brutal bear markets takes
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The 200 day is the test of all tests for the bulls, there are many systems used by traders that gives a buy signal for stocks as they move above their 200 day moving average. For the last three years buying THE market leader Apple as it either
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Time and again I heard him say, “Well, this is a bull market, you know!” as though he were giving to you a priceless talisman wrapped up in a million-dollar accident-insurance policy. And, of course, I did not get his meaning. (Mr. Partridge from Reminiscences of a Stock Operator) “They say there are two sides
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How do I make money in trading? I seek to profit from market trends. I am a short term trend trader. I seek to be long or short a stock or ETF that is in a trend and has the potential to trend for several days or weeks. I will trade anything that is
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