This is a Guest Post by: Troy Bombardia @bullmarketsco his website is MarketHistory.org. Is this the start of a bear market for stocks? That’s probably what you’re wondering right now, with the S&P 500 sitting right ontop of its 200 daily moving average. Here’s our long term, medium term, and short term outlook for the […]
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Chart courtesy of StockCharts.com $SPY closed back over the 200 day SMA Friday triggering a bullish entry signal. A close below the 200 day SMA would negate the bullish signal Friday. Friday was an inside trading day with prices inside Thursday’s range. Friday had the highest volume up day since the reversal out of the
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What type of strategy exactly is trend trading or trend following? “Trend followers use reactive technical analysis. Instead of trying to predict a market direction, their strategy is to react to the market’s movements whenever they occur. This enables them to focus on the market’s actual moves and not get emotionally involved with trying to
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This is a Guest Post by AK of Fallible AK has been an analyst at long/short equity investment firms, global macro funds, and corporate economics departments. He co-founded Macro Ops and is the host of Fallible. Make sure to watch the entire China’s Downfall series here: https://bit.ly/2Ig0JZz Why now? Why is China finally going to feel
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This is a Guest Post by: Colibri Trader @priceinaction. This article is used here with permission and originally appeared here on ColibriTrader.com. Over eighty percent of today’s trading is automated. Before arguing this number, don’t think of only the HFT (High-Frequency Trading) industry. While responsible for a big chunk of it, retail automated trading contributes
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This is a Guest Post by: Troy Bombardia @bullmarketsco his website is MarketHistory.org. Mainstream financial media is tripping all over itself about “the stock market’s terrible breadth and why the stock market will crash”. Because hey, bad news sells like hot cakes. *A lot of traders have an obsession with breadth. The reality is simple:
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This is a Guest Post by AK of Fallible AK has been an analyst at long/short equity investment firms, global macro funds, and corporate economics departments. He co-founded Macro Ops and is the host of Fallible. Is Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla (TSLA), right about short sellers? Should what they do be illegal?
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Risk management is one of the most overlooked aspects of investing and trading. Too much energy effort and focus is placed on entries and picking the right stocks. Risk management is the defensive aspect of trading. A lack of respect of risk is what removes many traders from the markets permanently at all levels. Here
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Chart Courtesy of StockCharts.com In October we saw the seasonal tendency for expanded volatility to the downside. A pullback to the 50 day SMA is a normal pullback in a strong bull market. VIX was held at 14.82 back under it’s 200 day moving average. The VIX expansion failed over the 200 day SMA twice
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A moving average is a line on a chart that represents the average of prices over a specific timeframe, it changes as the price changes in the timeframe it represents. Moving averages are technical tools that traders use to identify trends on charts. A simple moving average is just the average of prices in
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