With the endless choices of podcasts on investing to listen to in 2020 I thought it would be helpful to recommend five that I enjoy and think bring great value and information to listeners. These five are a great place to start and listen to a few episodes and see if they align with your […]
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“Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” ― Tim Notke There are plenty of people with talent. There are people born with some innate talents naturally over others. As someone enters higher levels of competition whether in sports, business, academics, or investing, talent is not enough. All your competition has some level of skills and
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Financial freedom is achieved when you have created enough wealth and/or cash flowing assets to live on and no longer need to depend on a paycheck as an employee. You are then financially free from a job, a boss, and a company. There are many ways to make a living in the 21st century other
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What is Positive Expectancy? The closest a trader can hope to come to a “Holy Grail” of profitable trading is a trading system with a positive expectancy. A trader’s focus should not be on predictions, stock picking, opinions, or being right all the time. The best focus is on creating a quantified system with an
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Unusual options activity can provide insight on what smart money, insiders, and big traders are doing with large volume option orders. Unusual options activity can tip a large traders hand and be a sign that a big bet has been placed for a potential move in price for the underlying stock that has a high probability.
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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 show! Make sure to check out our Sunday Chart Show this weekend at 6 PM EST with Steve Burns, founder of NewTraderU.com.
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Technical analysis can be both an art or a science based on how you use it. It is very easy to become too rigid in its practice believing it can become a crystal ball or too flexible and see whatever you want to see. Here are ten common mistakes people make in the practice of
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The uptick rule stops the short selling of a stock in a sharp downtrend by restricting the ability to sell when a stock is going down in price and only allowing new short selling as a stock is going up in price. To follow the rule a new short sell can only occur at a
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Selling short reverses the process of buying and selling higher. When selling short you borrow shares and sell first hoping to buy back later at a lower price for a profit. Selling short goes against the long term trend in the stock market and has to be done when charts create the best chances that
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Larry Williams is a legendary trader and the author of approximately 11 books on trading stocks and commodities. He developed several technical market indicators like the Williams %R, Ultimate Oscillator, COT indices, accumulation/distribution indicators and others to measure cycle forecasts, market sentiment, and also for quantifying the values for commodity prices. He is most famous for winning
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