How to be a Smart Trader: My Interview
Here is an interview I did with @CaseyStubbs for the Finance and Markets Podcast.
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5 Reasons Why Forex Trading Will Never Go Away
Did you know that the forex market is the largest market in the world? In fact, the foreign exchange market is so big that no other market can even dream about competing with it. Most people assume that the stock market is the largest market in the world since it’s the one that you hear
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The Price of Oil Explained
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. What the heck is going on with oil??? Why have prices crashed over 30% in the last few months?
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Why Bull Market Tops Are A Process
This is a Guest Post by: Troy Bombardia @bullmarketsco his website is BullMarkets.co. Market outlook: bull market tops are a process The U.S. stock market rallied last week and was sitting just under its 200 day moving average. Source: Investing.com The economy’s fundamentals determine the stock market’s medium-long term outlook. Technicals determine the stock market’s
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Is the Correction Over? : $SPY Chart 12/2/18
Chart Courtesy of StockCharts.com $SPY set off bullish reversal signals by closing over the 50 day, 200 day, and 250 day moving averages on Friday. The Fed chairman’s dovish comments lead the markets to believe that they could be more accommodative on monetary policy than previously thought. $SPY finished higher than the previous close
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Trade Probabilities Not Predictions
“I will be first to admit that charts do NOT forecast price – they show path of least resistance and provide an excellent risk management tool” – Peter L. Brandt Boolean logic reacts off how the pattern plays out. It is just probabilities not predictions. Boolean logic is named after a nineteenth-century mathematician, George Boole.
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Creating a Process that Works for You
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. What could Rick Rubin, legendary music producer, know about trading? Well, that’s what we’re going to find out
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Why Egos Cause the Biggest Trading Errors
The ego is a person’s sense of self-esteem or self-importance. The ego is a mental construct that can be both on a conscious and unconscious level. An ego is the self concept that a person tries to protect and keep safe from pain and destruction. A trader has to trade the math and their own
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The Dangers Of Algorithmic Trading In The Stock Market
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. In this video we’re going to talk about the dangers of algorithmic trading in the stock market. Cathy O’Neil
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Lessons From Two Failed Trades
This is a Guest Post by: Colibri Trader @priceinaction. This article is used here with permission and originally appeared here on ColibriTrader.com. Dear traders, This last week I had a couple of trading ideas that initially looked great on the chart, but then failed. So, why did they not work out? First Failed
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After Market’s Around the World Have Fallen. What’s Next?
This is a Guest Post by: Troy Bombardia @bullmarketsco his website is BullMarkets.co. Market outlook: most market’s around the world are falling. What’s next The U.S. stock market has made a 61.8% bounce and now retested its lows, which is the standard pattern for these fast 10%+ corrections. “Drop, pop, and slop” Source: Investing.com Now
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Read My Trading Books In This Order
After being asked several times what the best order to read my books in I decided to write this post as a go to place to direct people interested in learning about trading by reading my books through in order to best serve them in their journey. Investing Habits is the book to read if
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15 Bear Signals on the $SPY Chart: 11/24/18
Chart Courtesy of StockCharts.com Price is under all key individual daily moving averages: The 5 day EMA. The 10 day SMA. The 50 day SMA. The 100 day SMA. The 200 day SMA. The 250 day SMA. 2. Several bearish moving average cross under signals have triggered: 10 day / 50 day SMA
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12 Rules for Good Trading
Here are twelve great rules that can give new traders a quick list to see what the right questions to answer that will lead to good trading and also a guide to more experienced traders that just can’t get to consistent profitable trading over the long term. Create your own quantified trading system with an
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Why Account Size Should Not Determine Your Risk Management
This is a guest post from Tino @tradersreality. This article originally appeared on tradersreality.com and is reposted here by request. Why Your Trading Capital Determines Your Trading Style The old saying goes, you have to speculate to accumulate. I agree, but what is the magical figure that allows you to accumulate, more so how does
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Is Buy and Hold Investing Smart or Dumb?
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 passive investing safe? Will index ETFs save you in the next market crash? Or will both of these
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Why the Economy is Bullish for Stocks Going into 2019
This is a Guest Post by Troy Bombardia of BullMarkets.co Market outlook: why the economy is bullish for stocks going into 2019 As we expected in last week’s market outlook, the U.S. stock market has pulled back after a hard bounce. The S&P 500 has now retraced more than 61.8% of its gains. The economy’s
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Mixed Signals on the $SPY Chart: 11/18/18
Chart Courtesy of Stockcharts.com $SPY closed over the 250 day SMA which is bullish long term trend reversal signal based on backtesting. Two bullish moving average crossover signals were triggered with the 10 day / 200 day SMA cross and the 10 day / 250 day SMA crossover. The volume on the up swing
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The 10 Top Skills of Profitable Traders
Most long term profitable traders possess a set of skills that lead to their consistent success over a long period of time. Here are the 10 skills that I have seen in common with so many successful traders. These were skills that had to be mastered before I was able to generate and keep long
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64 Powerful Pieces of Trading Wisdom
The following are top tweets from Tino @tradersreality. Traders Reality Wisdom: Knowledge only becomes wisdom if it is transferred and applied. I have compiled 64 of the best tweets that focus on the psychology of trading. This is beneficial for those who would rather refer to this document in their spare time, maybe print it
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