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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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. Increase your investment returns by red teaming your trade and investment theses! Red Teaming is when you get an
“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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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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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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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?!? 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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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