This is a Guest Post by Jake @TrendSpider. In this blog post, make sure to check out the top 5 TrendSpider charts posted this week on social media as well as the link to sign up for this Sunday’s show at 6 PM EST!
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Have you ever been curious if certain months of the year have any statistically significant stock market returns better or worse on average than other months. Here are the statistics for monthly S&P 500 index performance from 1950 to 2019 to let you see if you see any patterns. Month: Number of times with positive
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When a market’s price action falls straight down making lower lows continuously without stopping or bouncing back it is considered a ‘falling knife’ on a chart because of its speed and trajectory. It’s not a good idea to buy into a chart with plunging price action that can’t find support before there is a signal
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A cognitive bias is a mental pattern that breaks from logic, reason, and the ability to rationally judge something through the filter of facts and reality. It is when an individual’s thinking is so clouded by their own subjective reality, memories, and experience that they are unable to interpret new information correctly. A cognitive bias
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Is technical analysis bullshit? Many people will dismiss technical analysis as useless before doing the homework to even fully understand what it is or how it should be used. Dismissing technical analysis as bullshit after hearing that academics dismissed it in a paper is like saying no one can make any money in the stock
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“It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.” – George Carlin The long term trend of the stock market is up. Not individual stocks, as some go up 1,000% and others go to $0 over the years. However, equities as an asset class tend to go higher over five and ten year periods most
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Look for a mission in life not a job. “Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.” – Oriental proverb A career has a path where education and experience leads to growth in value and pay. A job can be any place you go to receive
This is a Guest Post by Jake @TrendSpider In this weekend blog post, you will find our “Top 5 TrendSpider Charts This Week”, weekend analysis, and the link the this Sunday’s event! Make sure to check out our Sunday Event, “Lesson’s From Volatility Masters” this weekend starting at 10 AM EST!
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Ray Dalio designed an asset allocation that is supposed to be able to weather any economic storm, manage risk exposure, and make steady returns over the long term. He calls it the All Weather Portfolio and it diversifies by holding multiple asset classes: bonds, commodities, and stocks. Tony Robbins first made this portfolio popular in
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This is a guest post by Manu Shoker of manushoker.com. Why Trading and Investing are so Fundamentally Different There is a popular misconception that trading and investing could be used interchangeably with one another. But as professional traders and investors can attest to, they are both radically different. It’s easy to mix the terms when both
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