Reversal patterns happen when a chart has a strong break from its current trend and its momentum reverses course. This can happen on a trend line break of resistance or support out of a price range, a gap in price, or a long wick candlestick that changes direction and reverses off of highs in an […]
I have read over 400 trading and investing books in the past 20 years that have given me the principles of profitable trading and allowed me to make money in the markets consistently and build life changing amounts of capital. Here is a list of the ones that were most memorable, useful, and meaningful, along
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Bullish price action trading creates chart patterns that show uptrends in a market through the buying pressure by traders and investors creating higher highs and higher lows and breakouts to the upside. A bullish chart pattern is a visual record of the votes by bulls that increase price levels over a period of time. There are different
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A gap in stocks is when a chart skips over levels of prices and starts trading higher or lower than the last candle without a direct path through all previous prices. Gaps on charts are momentum signals in technical analysis in the direction of the gap. On an intraday chart if an opening gap versus
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What does Ape mean in stocks? Retail investors bullish on heavily-shorted stocks are now known as Apes. The new vocabulary for trading allows someone to be bullish, bearish, or apish. Apes are very strong holders of a stock that they have a huge conviction on it going higher due to being oversold, heavily shorted, and
Here is a list of my picks for the top ten financial documentaries available on Netflix at the time of this writing that you can watch with a subscription. These documentaries are informative, educational, and most are also entertaining. This is a great way to raise your financial IQ and are basically free if you
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Here are ten questions that can measure how financially fit you are in your personal finances. Grading scale: No = 0 I’m halfway there = 1 Yes = 2 You can pay off off your credit card debt any time you want to or have zero credit card debt. You have three to six months
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What does a black candlestick mean on a chart? A black candlestick forms on a chart set for hollow candles where all candlesticks will be set for filled or hollow and will appear as white, red, or black. The black candle forms when price closes lower than it opens but the closing price is still
In my opinion the following list are the best twelve Wall Street movies ever made based on their popularity, entertainment value, and lessons they teach for those paying attention. While these movies may not go too deep into how to make money in trading they do show the dangers of greed, fear, bubbles, and the
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Instead of searching for an options play structure every time you come across a potential option trade you want to make you can now simply refer to the below guides created by Gavin McMaster at OptionsTradingIQ.com you can also following Gav on Twitter at @OptionTradinIQ. Options traders at all trading levels can find having these
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A listing of the most shorted stocks right now is a a great place to look for potential deep dip technical entries or value buys. Stocks with the highest short interest across all major U.S. stock exchanges is the list to watch to stay updated on stocks setting up for potentially explosive moves to the
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A trailing stop loss is a risk management tool for locking in profits on a winning trade. While a trade may start out with a stop loss after the initial entry to exit if the trade does not go in the right direction but instead goes against the trader enough to show that a trade
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Buy to open versus buy to close in options trading are very different processes that many stock traders don’t understand. A buy to open order in options trading is when a call or put contract is bought and entered as a long position. The term comes mostly from the fact that when the option seller
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Option contracts are different than stock shares in the way they are created, traded, and closed. There are two different types of selling in options trading: sell to open vs sell to close. An options trader will sell to open a new option contract that they want to be short. This is also called writing
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The rounding top is a bearish chart pattern in technical analysis. This pattern is formed when a chart puts in a top that forms when price curves up and then down in price. The right side of the curve will make higher highs on the left side of the move until the top price is
A consolidating stock is one that forms a trading range on its chart. A stock under consolidation will have defined resistance above price action and support below that acts as barriers to short-term movement. Stocks and markets go through different cycles of uptrends, downtrends, trading ranges, and volatility, the consolidation period is the one where
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What is a bear trap? Bear trap stocks are ones that have already fallen a lot in price and traders continue to sell it short believing it will continue to fall and make lower and lower prices. These bear trap stocks can create extreme bearishness luring in more and more short sellers after it has
The star doji is a neutral signal candle signal that has opening and closing prices that are the same price level or very close. A single star doji candle shows that buyers and sellers reached equilibrium during the candle period as the close and open were the same price level. When a star doji appears
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Is forex trading profitable? Is day trading profitable? Are commonly asked questions by new traders but the answer can be yes or no depending on how someone trades. Yes, trading is profitable if you have a positive expectancy model where the average win is bigger than the average loss over a series of trades. Profitability is
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