You can’t determine whether mechanical entry and exit signals are viable for profitable trading unless you test it over a broad range of trading vehicles through different market environments. Recent price action can create bias and isolated examples are not enough to make decisions from. You have to start with your own watch list and […]
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Chart courtesy of StockCharts.com All time highs are bullish. The MACD stays under a bullish crossover. Short term support is the 10 day ema. The next area of support is the old breakout in the $286 area, then the 50 day sma. The 70 RSI area held as resistance at all time highs last week
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A back test is where a trader takes a series of historical price action data and tries to find patterns that were profitable in the past. The trouble is when a trader tries to keep changing the parameters of a back test until they fit in to a path to profitability in the past. A
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This is a guest post by Troy Bombardia, a private trader who shares fact-based market analysis at Bull Markets The U.S. stock market recently made a new all-time high. What’s next? The S&P 500 (U.S. stock market) recently made a new all-time high after 7 months. So what’s next for the U.S. stock market? Let’s
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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. Did Wall Street destroy Toys “R” Us? Are hedge funds the reason the company had to shut down completely? We talk about
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Where do our greatest trading mistakes come from while we are trading the financial markets? They arise primarily from within. It is not the price action that causes our missteps and mistakes but our response to the price action. Your ego will cause you to allow a small loss to grow into a big loss
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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. The Fortnite makers, Epic Games, along with Netflix, Spotify and other tech companies have had enough of Apple and Google’s duopoly. This
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The key to learning and growing as a trader is to learn from mistakes that you make and not repeat them. The first time you commit an error that costs you money is just a mistake the second time is stubbornness, the third time you make a mistake is foolishness. You can be active in
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Chart Courtesy of StockCharts.com $SPY is at all time highs in price. This is the most bullish signal as historically all time highs beget new all time highs. $SPY price is over all moving averages. $SPY has a bullish crossover on all moving average crossover systems. MACD is under a bullish crossover. There is room
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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. In this video we’re going to talk all about why HBO needs to become more like Netflix to survive. Back in July
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