Jack Schwager has personally interviewed the greatest traders of our time. He has published several timeless classics, among them my favorite trading book of all time “Market Wizards”. I was thrilled when I heard that Mr. Schwager had developed his own technical indicators, and they were available through TradeShark.com. TradeShark was generous enough to set me […]
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The common held belief in the trading world is that 90% of traders are not profitable long term. This was based off some old studies of brokerage accounts. I read the original source article long ago in a trading book that referenced it. Other more recent studies seem to have found that the failure rate
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Here are two types of buy signals that traders can use. Swing traders have difficulty understanding how momentum traders like assets at higher prices and momentum traders don’t want to buy something that is not moving straight in one direction. I hope this sheds some light on two different kinds of traders. Momentum Signals: This
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All time highs have been held through all the Greece headlines, this is bullish so far. The old all time high at $209 will be our first level of support as people that missed the breakout will likely be waiting there for a second chance to get in. The previous all time at $207
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For all the people that have asked for it: Here are five trades examples step by step. These were all shared in real time on twitter. My December $UPRO Trade My Simple and Effective $TQQQ Trade Do Bears Drive Electric Cars? My Big Juicy Apple Option Strangle Play My Recent $SPY Trade December 2014
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This guest post is from: Christopher Ebert @OptionScientist There are two VERY DIFFERENT terms to consider when it comes to trading: 1) Prediction and 2) expectation (or confidence) surrounding the prediction. Placing a trade involves making a prediction. It is not possible to place a trade without making a prediction, and that is
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This is a guest post by Helyn Bolanis: Founder,CEO,& Chief Investment Officer @ParlanFinancial Corp. You Don’t have to be an Investment Geek to Make Money with this Idea Ever wonder why a stock or the market just takes off like a rocket, with no apparent rhyme or reason? Me too. Sometimes you get why
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As a trader, your #1 goal is to keep your current trading capital safe and secure. Your goal as a a trader is to make money and not lose money. Many new traders lose their trading capital in the first year, but these ten tips will help you keep your capital intact so you can
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“The answer to the question, What’s the trend? is the question What’s your timeframe?” –Richard Weissman One of the biggest misunderstandings among traders is the time frame on which they trade. A day trader can believe a stock is going down and be bearish on the intra-day chart, while a longterm stock picker is
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Trade #1 I shorted $IWM three days ago by buying $TZA at $13.02 when $IWM was near the 70 RSI on the daily chart. My stop loss was to exit if $IWM closed above the 72 RSI. My trailing stop is to stay short unless $IWM closes above the previous day’s high. There is
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chart courtesy of stockcharts.com The long term up trend is still in place. All indexes are with-in striking distance of all time highs which remains bullish. $SPY $QQQ $IWM $DIA With all stock indexes pushing against the 70 RSI on the daily chart the potential upside is very limited putting the odds on limited momentum
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I entered $TQQQ at $83.13 based on the $QQQ chart as it broke above the 50 day sma. This has been a profitable buy signal over the past 4 years. My stop was a close below the 50 day sma. With the first gap and go I moved my stop to a close below
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Charts courtesy of stockcharts.com and @361Capital These are the kinds of charts that can trick so many because the only selling pressure at all time highs is the pressure to take profits. The longs aren’t being stopped out for losses if they are placed correctly outside the normal intra-day price noise. The pressure
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A breakout into an overbought price level as measured in the historical context of an oscillator. This is almost always a bad trade. $SPY breaking out into a 65 RSI is not the same as it breaking out of a long term price range, to all time highs over a 50 RSI. Buying a breakout
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20 Reasons Why 90% of New Traders Don’t Make It They risk too much to try to make so little. They trade with the probabilities against them. They think trading is easy money. Instead of focusing on learning how to trade they focus on getting rich. They blow up due to improper position sizing. With
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While $SPY ended 2013 with an over 32% annual return and seemed to keep going up day after day with buying the dip as the name of the game last year. While ‘the dip” moved around to the 10 day SMA, the 21 day EMA, the 50 day SMA, even the 100 day simple moving
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The Bear- This trading animal believes the market will be going down and plays the short side. Bears think that a market is going to be very red. The Bull- This trading animal is very optimistic that the market will be green. Bulls love to buy and believe their screen will be full of
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In trading, the money is not made in the entry, it is in the exit. The art of the exit is crucial to a trader’s success in the markets. Profits can disappear if you do not take them at the right time, and small losses can become huge losses if you do not cut them
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Subjective: Based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes, or opinions. Proceeding from or taking place in a person’s mind rather than the external world. Subjective traders are intertwined with their trades. Their signals are generally entering out of greed and exiting based on their own fear. They believe in their opinions more than the
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