Are You Diversified? Investopedia describes diversification as “A risk management technique that mixes a wide variety of investments within a portfolio” that “strives to smooth out unsystematic risk events” “so that the positive performance of some investments will neutralize the negative performance of others.” I personally think of it as the process of combining multiple […]
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I married the love of my life 3 years ago. While reflecting on the commitment I was about to make, I realized that my past mistakes in marriage reminded me of some of my trading missteps. Trading stocks and marriage are a lot alike. (I actually wrote this blog post originally the day before I
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Current support is the $204.50 that held Wednesday and Friday. It would not be a good risk/reward to short a break under the $204.50 price level as the RSI will be in the thirties if support is lost and in the oversold rally zone. $207 is our near term resistance. A break above this
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Top Trading Tweets of the Week 3/13/15 Wall Street Firm Develops New High-Speed Algorithm Capable Of Performing Over 10,000 Ethical Violations Per Second http://t.co/L2DISRRkiB — Downtown Josh Brown (@ReformedBroker) March 13, 2015 Don't smoke. I did. Wish I never had. LLAP — Leonard Nimoy (@TheRealNimoy) January 11, 2015 CASH RULES EVERYTHING AROUND ME EXCEPT WHEN OTHER ASSETS PROVIDE HIGHER RISK ADJUSTED YIELDS CONTROLLING FOR LIQUIDITY PREFERENCES B — Wu-Tang Financial (@Wu_Tang_Finance) March 7,
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Social Media can be a lot of fun for traders but at times the fun and sharing is interrupted by rudeness, arrogance, or ignorance, or all of these things combined. Here are ten examples of common annoyances we likely will experience as we navigate the trading world that exists inside social media. You enter a
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Here are two types of buy signals that traders can use. Swing traders have difficulty understanding how momentum traders like assets at higher prices and momentum traders don’t want to buy something that is not moving straight in one direction. I hope this sheds some light on two different kinds of traders. Momentum Signals: This
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I never understood why traders held losing trades for too long. Our goal is to make money, isn’t it? And yet, we’ve all held onto something negative for too long; a losing trade for a few days, a bad marriage for a decade, smoking for a couple of decades, or any number of other things
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On February 27th $GOOGL broke out over the key 200 day moving average. The day finished with a reversal candlestick, so I waited to enter on a pullback to the 200 day, or a continuation above the February 27th close. On March 2nd, $GOOGL gapped over the close and continued up. I went long that
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