One example of a simple long term trend following system is the ‘Golden Cross’. This is the most popular and famous bullish moving average crossover entry signal along with its inverse ‘Death Cross’ bearish exit or short selling signal. The Golden Cross happens when the 50 day simple moving average crosses over the 200 day […]
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David Winton Harding is a billionaire trend following quant trader, and the founder and CEO of Winton Group. His fund was launched in 1997 with $1.6 million in assets and now has approximately $20 billion under management. His funds trading programs have returned a compounded +12.5% return over the last 19 years even with its size. David
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This is a Guest Post by Jake @TrendSpider. In this weekend blog post, we look at the broad markets taking a HUGE step back after quite the move over the last few months. Is this just a blip on the radar or something bigger? Make sure to check out our Sunday Chart Show this weekend with
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This is a Guest Post by Troy Bombardia of pythonforfinance.org Most traders begin trading with discretionary trading strategies since these strategies are usually easier to understand. Just pull up a chart, overlay some indicators onto the chart, and voila! You can start to understand, analyze, and learn about the market from Day 1! But as your trading experience
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What is FOMO? FOMO is an acronym that stands for the ‘Fear of Missing Out’ on an opportunity, event, or chance to make money. FOMO originally came from the feeling people had on social media when they saw other people having fun on social media somewhere else and had the feeling of missing out on
Why did the Coronavirus drop the stock market so fast? The stock market is a forward looking investment mechanism and is always pricing in the future earnings expectations today. The Coronavirus is a highly contagious and dangerous illness that has already caused the quarantine of Chinese cities, Italian towns, cruise ships, and travellers returning home
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There are many different types of trading strategies. Some traders trade with the trend buying high looking for higher highs or sell new low prices short looking for even lower lows in price, momentum strategies just look for a strong move to go a little farther, others trade a market inside a price range of
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This is a Guest Post by @BullDudeC of BullDude.com. A Japanese candlestick chart is a type of visual price display of a financial instrument. Usually charts are displayed as a line that combines the closing prices of the various trading sessions. The disadvantage of this type of display is that only the closing price
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Bernie Sanders current net worth is estimated to be approximately $2 million in February 2020. Sanders became mayor of Burlington, Vermont from 1981 to 1989. He was elected to the House of Representatives in 1991 and then the US senate in 2007. He is the longest serving independent in the history of congress. Bernie Sanders joined the Democratic Party
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Data analytics is the process of analyzing information through filtering it to transform the raw data into useable models. The goal is to uncover highly probably conclusions that can be used for an an edge in future decision making after seeing repeatable patterns of behavior from the data. Data analytics is reliant on applying statistics
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