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
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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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All your trades should end in one of four ways: A small win. A big win. A small loss. Break even. Never a big loss. A small win puts money in your trading account, a small win is a success as long as your did not forfeit a big win by exiting too quickly during
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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. In this video we’ll cover whether or not Amazon (AMZN) is actually abusing the Post Office and what’s going on with the
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We are now in a short term range bound market that is inside of a longer term bull market. Last week down days were on much higher volume than the up days. For 13 of the last 14 days the 10 day EMA has acted as end of day resistance. The $SPY average true range
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This is a Guest Post and Infographic by 16best.net. How Brands Are Using Renewable Energy? (Infographic) In the last few years, something amazing happened. The term “go green” transformed from an idealistic buzz phrase to an inspirational call-to-action, as we saw more and more big name brands getting onboard the renewable energy bandwagon and making
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This is a Guest Post by AK of Fallible AK has been an analyst at long/short equity investment firms, global macro funds, and corporate economics departments. He co-founded Macro Ops and is the host of Fallible. The 3 stocks we’ll cover today have amazing potential! So make sure to keep them on your watch list so you don’t
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10 Ways To Reduce Stress: Don’t respond to negative people: You do not have to answer to people that do not understand what you are trying to do with your life. The odds are that your critics and naysayers have no idea how it will be possible for you to achieve your goals. Get exercise:
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Here are ten ways to keep your account safe during a market correction, when support levels break, up trends reverse, and oversold indicators just get more oversold. Your long positions should be stopped out quickly as the first short term moving averages are broken early on. You should already be out before the pullback turns
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$SPY did bounce near the 200 day sma and the 30 RSI but failed to rally and begin a new uptrend. ($SPX chart had a near perfect peg of the 200 day sma / 30 RSI and bounce). $SPY chart remains under a bearish MACD cross under. The ATR has continued to expand back to
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Boolean logic is named after a nineteenth-century mathematician, George Boole. What is Boolean logic? It is a type of algebra where all values are either true or false. Boolean logic is used in computer science as it conforms to the binary numbering system that is the language of computer programming. In a binary numbering system
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Stop hoping and stop wishing you had magically known what to do in the past and start following your trading plan 100% in the present. The clarity of a past historical chart is 20/20 but that has nothing to do with the real time chart that abruptly stops giving you information on the far right
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This is a Guest Post by Alex @MacroOps which was posted originally here: Why you need to Red Team Everything and is reposted here with permission. Have you ever had an investment idea that you just knew was going to be a slam-dunk and make you a ton of money? So you put on a
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