If you are a longer term trend follower and there is a long term trend, then you make money. If you are a shorter term trend follower and their is a trend in your trade you make money. Swing traders make money in range bound markets. Value investors make […]
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While my trading is more following capital flows based on trends that I measure with key moving averages there is one chart pattern that I find very useful and that has high probabilities of success. The cup and handle pattern is a bullish continuation formation, it is one of the newer chart formations and
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If you could ask advice from the world’s most successful hedge fund managers what would they tell you? Jack Schwager has done the work to get us some answers, here are some of the best tips garnered from the top traders in the hedge fund industry. The following quotes are from Jack Schwagers book Hedge
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This is not what an up trending market looks like. Choppiness, uncertainty, leaders getting pummeled, fear running rampant over many, and government interventions to save the economy. As I write this we are looking at possibly 6 straight down days in a row for some indexes. While the $SPY
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How is it possible for swing traders, trend followers, position traders, growth investors, value investors, and even some skilled day traders to all make money in the markets even with what is many times opposite strategies? There are three elements that cause profits in the stock market regardless of strategy. They are: Managing risk with
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Ever have that day when you were a new trader and you were 100% sure about a trade. You just could not lose, the stock was a real buy it had already fallen a great deal and it could not possibly fall any farther. So you waited and then plunged in, you couldn’t
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The debate rages about whether facebook is hype or the big winning stock of this decade. Whether it is a whole new form of communication that is changing the world or just a fad. The debate rages whether its earnings and revenue growth can appease Wall Street or if they have even begun
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With the wild action in the market it is more important than ever for us not do stupid things in our trading. While the market is trying to digest what a socialist president means for France and a Greek political fracture means for Greece’s future in the European Union we need to tread carefully. The
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While I do not predict, I do play the trend and the probabilities in my trading. I am currently long 100 shares of Priceline stock at an average price of $723 a share. Thanks to Expedia’s much better than expected earnings and sales results $PCLN holders got to experience a
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The Perfect Trader is patient with entries and exits, they are focused on what works not personal opinions. They do not worry about missed trades, the Perfect Trader does not boast while winning and does not become depressed while losing. They are never too proud to admit when they are wrong and exit their trade.
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