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. Today we’re going to talk about 3 reasons why your trading account isn’t growing like you want it to. More than half […]
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This is a guest post by: Andrew Bezen. Why have ETFs become popular over the past few years? Exchange Traded Funds, popularly known as ETFs are quite a range of investments nowadays. ETFs can be regarded as a basket of stocks that track indices, stocks, commodities, bonds, industries, and even currencies. They provide a low-cost,
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In my thousands of hours of study of top traders and what has enabled me to make money in the market I have noticed 10 common habits of billionaires, millionaires. and skills I had to develop in my own years of profitable trading: They think for themselves. They have their own system, methodology, and plan already
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The biggest key to profitable trading that few people think about is the management of volatility. Setting a stop loss at a level that keeps you in a winning trade but stops you out of a losing trade when proven wrong is the management of volatility. Using a moving average crossover system is a way
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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. Today we’re going to talk about volatility and how you can use it to make more money in the stock market. Volatility
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Short term resistant is at a confluence of the $268 price level, of the 50 day SMA, and the 50 RSI. A close over this level gives a momentum long signal. The RSI is at 49.24, a close over the 50 RSI is a sign of new momentum. For the past four trading days the
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Here are the seven sins that traders commit that put them in the unprofitable purgatory of the markets. Sloth: The belief that trading is easy money new traders to be lazy and not put in the work at first to develop their own trading system and plan before trading. Work is required to learn how
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“They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns).” ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb Many new traders obsess too long over details that do not matter not realizing that at its core trading is simple. Money is made
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There are two kinds of traders: 1. Those who are humble. 2. Those who are going to be humbled. In the markets competence must come before confidence or the market will give you an expensive education. No one can predict the future prices of markets the stronger the belief that you can then the harder
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“I’ve found that the big money was never made in the buying or the selling, was made in the waiting.”– Jesse Livermore You have to wait until you have a profitable backtested system and signals before you start to trade. You have to trade price action with a historical edge or your trades are just
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