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Diversify Your Life and Your Portfolio
“Trading can be your passion and a way to make money and create wealth but it is not the meaning of life. Your highest goal should be happiness and trading should just be a stepping stone on your path there.” – Steve Burns The best traders I know are not chained to their trading desks
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The Battle To Close A Losing Trade…
This is a guest post from Tino @tradersreality the article originally appeared on tradersreality.com and is reposted here with permission. Make no mistake, the truth is that every new and old trader has experienced the battle of when to close a trade that was bleeding their capital. In my opinion, the difficulty in letting go of
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Where I’m Buying the $SPY Dip
Last week the $SPY chart broke out of the symmetrical chart pattern to the downside. The MACD was under a bearish cross under all of last week. The ATR expanded to the upside showing the expansion of downside volatility. Volume expanded by over 50% as prices fell to the downside. The RSI is entering oversold
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Focus On Your Execution, Not the Market
This is a guest post from Tino @tradersreality. This article originally appeared on tradersreality.com and is reposted here with permission. As with any new aspiring trader looking into the chaotic world of Forex, they will browse the internet on “How to Trade Forex”, find a system, purchase it, use it, then probably give up on it
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Will This Data Breach Actually HELP Facebook?
Will This Data Breach Actually HELP Facebook?!? The news all says that the Cambridge Analytica data leak was terrible for Facebook. Regulation will come in a wreck the company’s advertising model. But is this true? What if more regulation actually HELPS Facebook. There is potential for regulation to make Facebook an entrenched incumbent. This may
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$SPY Chart: Bear Signals, Bull Signals
This week $SPY has been under a MACD bearish cross under. On Thursday morning $SPY gapped down out of the symmetrical triangle pattern. $VIX spiked up to 23.35 this week. ATR slightly increased this week. RSI has stayed under the 50 RSI this week showing a loss of momentum. The uptrend is now damaged after
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Is a Commodity Backed Cryptocurrency a Real Possibility?
This is a guest post by Deb Shaw of MarketsNow.com. Should we expect to see reliable commodity backed cryptocurrencies emerge in the future? The reality is that such cryptocurrencies would be backed by a range of different financial assets (stocks, bonds, precious metals etc.) hosted in reputable jurisdictions with fully audited financial statements. However, there
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Bulls Stopped: $SPY Chart 3/18/18
Chart Courtesy of StockCharts.com Last week $SPY retraced the previous big bullish candle ending lower. The 10 day EMA acted as end of day support last week. Price remains bullish and over the key moving averages 10 day, 50 day, 100 day, 200 day. $SPY is trading inside a price range that is consolidating.
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4 Types of Trades
All your trades should end in one of four ways: 1. A small win: You take a profitable exit, this is usually a short term trade. 2. A big win: You let a winning trade run when you are on the right side of a trend. This is the biggest contributor to profitable trading as
Good Trading Is Episodic, Not Continuous
This is a Guest Post by Alex @MacroOps which was posted originally here: High Quality Trading Is Episodic, Not Continuous and is reposted here with permission. There’s two types of market returns. Alpha and beta. Beta is what you get for diversifying and passively holding the market. Alpha is the opposite. It requires an edge,
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Everyone is a Trader
So many people will quickly judge traders and investors as gamblers. In many families you can’t discuss trading openly without judgmental stares, rolling eyes, and disapproval. The general public does not understand that on a deeper level everyone is a trader in some way. We trade one thing in order to receive another thing. Not
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10 Tips for Cryptocurrency Beginners
This is a guest post by BlockBliss.com: 10 useful tips for cryptocurrency beginners “There are loads of success stories from cryptocurrency investors that hit it big. However, where there are winners there are likely a lot of less fortunate investors too. Don’t become one of those statistics, prepare yourself! The infographic below is a good
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Top 10 Worthless Wall Street Sayings
the stock just got ahead of itself — StockCats (@StockCats) March 13, 2018 Stocks are down on ‘profit taking’ — Mr. Breakout (@sharptraders) March 13, 2018 Buy low sell high — John Grimley (@jgrim375) March 13, 2018 Don’t put all your Eggs in the same basket — vinaykumar (@vinne786) March 13, 2018 “It’s
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Trading in the Now
“Trend following is a form of technical analysis. However, it is not predictive technical analysis, but rather it is reactive technical analysis. This is key to understand.” – Michael Covel All that matters for a trader is what they are doing right now in the current moment. Their potential entry set ups, their stop losses,
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Big Bullish Candles: $SPY Chart 3/11/18
The bulls regained control of the stock market last week. Price is back over all moving averages. The key 10 day ema remains over the 50 day ema which is a bullish crossover system. The tech sector was leading the move back up with $XLK and $QQQ breaking to new all time highs in price.
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How the Past Projects the Future
The normal path of nature has fragile things like living creatures and mechanical things follow a ‘bathtub curve’ where, after being a baby then child the probabilities of death increases as time goes by. For fragile things age and health determine the probability of continued survival which is the basis of insurance companies mortality tables
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The Fed Manipulates Financial Spreads
This is a Guest Post Vlog 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. How does the Federal Reserve manipulate financial markets and your money? They do it by controlling risk premium spreads… The goal
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What if Bitcoin Were a Country?
Thus is a Guest Post by Coinlist.me: Bitcoin has rocketed in value over the last 12 months, with its market cap at its peak reaching over $336 billion. For something that has no value according to many naysayers, it seems to be doing very well indeed! Like any tangible asset that’s actively traded, its value
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