What exactly is a chart pattern? A chart pattern is a visual representation of the actions of buyers and sellers in a market recorded in price action. A chart is not predictive of the future but shows what is happening with buyers and sellers in the present moment. The price action on a chart gives […]
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Profitable trading is not about opinions, not about a prediction, or even great stock tips or picks. Profitable trading is all about math, making more money on profitable trades than you lose on unprofitable trades. How you do this is the details. Trading without understanding the math creates randomness and luck in your process. Understanding
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Here are the first and most important lessons that a new trader needs to understand. All traders have to learn these lessons either the easy way and learn them from others or they can learn them the hard way by losing their own money. Do not start trading until you have a quantified trading system
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A mental model is an explanation of someone’s thought process about how something works in the real world. It is a representation of the surrounding world, the relationships between its various parts and a person’s intuitive perception about his or her own acts and their consequences. – Wikipedia Backtesting uses the scientific method to determine
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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. 2018 was a rough year… so rough that for the first time, no major asset class outperformed inflation. This
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Chart courtesy of StockCharts.com $SPY price continues under all key moving averages except the 5 day EMA and 10 day EMA. $SPY broke out of its recent 10 day trading range Friday to close at $252.39. $SPY closed under the 10 day EMA Thursday and then reversed closing back over the 10 day
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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. Is The 2019 Stock Market Crash Over? | Why The Bear Market Will Continue Is this latest down move
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This is a guest post by Avinash Mittal @Pure_Financial There is a close relationship between technical analysis and technical indicators. If technical analysis is an art and a science for trading the stock market and following price trends. Technical indicators help technical analysts react to any significant price action or volatility as it occurs in a
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This is a guest post from Tino @tradersreality. This article originally appeared on tradersreality.com and is reposted here by request. Everyone knows, the goal of a trader is to make money. Although this is the general consensus, having this frame of mind usually leads you to frustration and loss of money. So how do we
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This is a guest post by Roman Sadowski, chief analyst at Humble Traders We all get into trading the Forex Exchange Market wanting to be that guy who beats the market into submission with our own bare hands, and comes out smiling from ear to ear with a huge account balance! The guy who drives
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