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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This is a Guest Post by Alex @MacroOps which was posted originally here: is reposted here The Psychology Behind Managing A 20 Bagger with permission. What do you do with a massively profitable trade that has grown to become a large percentage of your total portfolio value? This question has been circulating in the Macro
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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 A lot of people have been getting mad
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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. To learn more about China’s Downfall, make sure you read Macro Ops’ article: https://bit.ly/2IkYHYm Make sure to watch our entire series here
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This is a Guest Post by Troy Bombardia of BullMarkets.co The U.S. stock market has made a breadth divergence recently. We examined the S&P 500’s breadth divergence yesterday. While this isn’t necessarily bearish, there are a cluster of signals in 2007 (near the previous bull market’s top). We are seeing more and more of a
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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. To determine the return potential of any trading strategy you have to look at three things, edge, frequency, and position size. Edge
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Chart Courtesy of StockCharts.com $SPY remains near all time highs of $293.22. It is bullish to be within striking distance of all time highs. Price remains bullishly over all moving averages. $SPY lost the 10 day EMA as intraday support last week showing the market starting to go sideways in a range. $SPY has been
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