The $UVXY ETF started trading in October of 2011 and it seeks a return that is 2 times the return of the VIX on a daily basis. Due to the compounding of daily returns, the $UVXY’s returns over periods other than one day will be very different than just holding double the $VIX due to […]
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Intuition In Trading And Investing: Can You Trust It? This is a Guest Post by Alex @MacroOps which was originally posted HERE. Do you ever get that feeling that a certain trade will be huge? That you should size up on it and go for the jugular? You can’t exactly describe why this trade is
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This is a Guest Post by Dante Vincent you can find him on Twitter @DGTrading101. This post originally appeared on his website dgtrading101.blogspot.com. It is reposted here with permission. I get approached with this question so often. “How do I find direction in my trading? I don’t have a niche. I feel like everybody has one and
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$SPY continues to stay in a strong uptrend but is starting to consolidate gains. $SPY traded in a $224 support and $227 resistance trading range last week. Price has become very extended from the 50 day and 200 day SMA and even the 10 day EMA. A small pullback is likely next week to the 10
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Times in the past 35 years that the 30-Yr Treasury Bond has been more oversold than today (using 14-week RSI)…19841987199420062013 pic.twitter.com/Sp6K64sBGV — Charlie Bilello, CMT (@charliebilello) December 16, 2016 Ratio of S&P 500 to Gold at an 11-year high. $SPY outperforming $GLD since its inception (Nov '04) for the first time since 2005. pic.twitter.com/GVSfm0Z305 —
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This is a Guest Post by Dante Vincent you can find him on Twitter @DGTrading101. His website is dgtrading101.blogspot.com. Routine & Extraneous Influence – How Important are they to your Trading? Routine. This is one of the most important tools in your trading arsenal and you don’t even know it. What you do day in and day
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Two things that many new traders and even experienced traders waste their time on is regret and hindsight. They look at charts and see the past so clearly on them, they should have bought here, they should have sold there. Why didn’t they? The charts look so obvious in hindsight. We really should not waste
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This is not a prediction it is just a list of things to look for as possible signs before a market rolls over. Alone these are just possibilities but the probabilities increase as more of the signs are in place. These signs do not mean that the market could crash just that it can pullback to
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This is a Guest Post by Alex @MacroOps which was originally posted here: Lessons From A Trading Great: Stanley Druckenmiller The “greatest money making machine in history”, a man with “Jim Roger’s analytical ability, George Soros’ trading ability, and the stomach of a riverboat gambler” is how fund manager Scott Bessent describes Stanley Druckenmiller. That’s
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The first support for $SPY on any small pullback would be the 10 day EMA. $SPY is over two ATRs from the 10 day EMA and a pullback there would be a normal pullback inside a parabolic uptrend. We should see this next week. Over the next few weeks the next key level for support
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25 Places To Find Quantitative Trading Strategies https://t.co/n9Tda0iUIi via @marwoodjoe — JBMarwood (@MarwoodJB) November 29, 2016 The only way to correct our own behavior is to create systems. Willpower alone won’t do it. https://t.co/uqHsh0skdf via @awealthofcs — Downtown Josh Brown (@ReformedBroker) December 9, 2016 8 metrics every trader must know about his trading system to
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The President of the United States communicates with the world – universally, directly and nearly exclusively – on $TWTR. Please make money. — Downtown Josh Brown (@ReformedBroker) December 7, 2016 Macro trading is like hockey – all the great ones are foreigners and whenever someone scores it’s like 80% luck. — Downtown Josh Brown (@ReformedBroker)
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Here are ten steps to growing your personal wealth through good financial habits. Be long stocks during bull markets. Exit stocks and go to cash during bear markets. Buy your home in an area that is growing in population, business, and opportunities. Create cash flowing assets. Buy bonds only when interest rates are high +6%.
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Analyze yourself: How much risk can you handle? What goals for returns do you have? What timeframe can you trade most comfortable with the lifestyle you want and your current circumstances? Choose your Method: Will you be a day trader, trend follower, swing trader, value investor, growth investor, scalper, or option trader? What school of
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$SPY is in a long term uptrend. Pushing against all time highs is the most bullish signal. $SPY has been range bound for the past seven trading days. The 10 day ema has acted as end of day support for the past 19 trading days. The 10 day ema is the first line of support. The $218.50
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Total disaster US economy enters its 90th straight month of expansion. — Downtown Josh Brown (@ReformedBroker) December 2, 2016 I’m hearing disturbing rumors that people who told you to load up on bonds and gold pre-election are deleting their posts. — Downtown Josh Brown (@ReformedBroker) November 30, 2016 Unemployment is at its lowest level since
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Declutter definition: “To remove unnecessary items from (an untidy or overcrowded place).” There is only one reason to trade: to make money. You only need to incorporate things into your trading that makes you money. If you do not have a good filter on what matters and what does not matter trading can become a
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