On trade entry the risk/reward ratio measures a trades potential for loss versus the magnitude of possible profits. In backtesting the average of all the losses in a system compared to all the average gains gives you the system’s risk/reward ratio based on historical price action. Looking at your stop loss versus your profit target […]
What is a Risk Reward Ratio? Read More »
This is a Guest Post by Troy Bombardia of BullMarkets.co. Market outlook: is this a V-shaped recovery? The stock market bounced this week after it tanked last week on trade war news. Is the stock market making a V-shaped recovery? Probably not. Technicals (short term, next 1-3 months): mixed. If I had to assign a probability to a
The Odds that the Stock Market Will Make a V-shaped Recovery Read More »
This is a Guest Post by Jake @TrendSpider. In this weekend’s analysis, we take a look at the broad market ETF daily Raindrop Charts (TM) and weekly hollow candles into mid-August. The markets were everything BUT stable with huge moves both to the downside and upside in all major broad market ETFs. To learn more about
The Key Trend Lines on the Charts: $SPY $QQQ $BTC Read More »
I first read the original version of this book over fourteen years ago, and it was the book that finally cemented for me the overall structure I needed to understand all the dynamics of profitable trading. I have read hundreds of trading books, and this one still stands head and shoulders above the rest. It
Trading for a Living Read More »
The fact that most traders don’t make money in the markets is no different a statistic than other fields. The majority of high school football players don’t go on to college scholarships and very few college football players get professional contracts to the NFL. Most players play for the passion and the dream. Traders have
How to be in the 10% of Profitable Traders Read More »
Contrarian: a person who opposes or rejects popular opinion, especially in stock exchange dealing. Being a contrarian trader is not as simple as going against the crowd on a trade. Doing the opposite of the popular opinion all the time will not win over time, instead it will likely put you on the wrong side
Three Contrarian Trading Set Ups Read More »
The Average Directional Index (ADX) is a technical indicator that uses the Minus Directional Indicator (-DI) and Plus Directional Indicator (+DI) to visually show a group of directional movement indicators that can be used as a trading system and was invented by Welles Wilder. Mr. Wilder created the ADX to focus on the daily prices
How Does the ADX Indicator Work? Read More »
Markets only trend a small amount of the time, they spend most of their time going sideways or become volatile and go no where. While catching a big trend can be profitable after a break out or break down of a range there are other ways to make money. Swing trading is a trading method that
Three Swing Trading Strategies Read More »
In trading defense is under rated and offense is over rated.Too many new traders want to make money so bad they don’t even consider the risk of loss when the market becomes very volatile and plunges. Here are ten ways to manage risk and limit your losses during market plunges. Your maximum position size on
10 Ways To Protect Yourself in Trading Read More »
This is a Guest Post by Troy Bombardia of BullMarkets.co. Last week we explained why the market’s short term outlook is bearish. The stock market is now making a pullback, and trade war news isn’t helping bulls. Over the past year, tariff-related news has not been good for stocks in the short term. Technicals (short term, next 1-3
The Probability that the Stock Market Selloff is Over Read More »