This is a guest post Jared Tendler. I’m excited to share with you very interesting results from a survey I conducted to learn more about how traders view psychology and emotions in trading. There was a huge turnout, thanks to participation from eight trading communities representing a wide range of traders. The results I’m about […]
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Historically there has been a pattern of stocks selling off on Monday’s. The pattern has varied each year but it remains a pattern even over the past few years. This tendency has been so pronounced that a book was even written about it in 1987, “Don’t Sell Stocks on Monday” by Yale Hirsch. Each day
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How many trading days are there in a year? The NYSE and NASDAQ are open for stock trading an average of approximately 253 trading days a year. This is calculated from the 365.25 days on average per year multiplied by 5/7 for the proportion of trading days per week minus 6 weekday holidays and subtracting
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William Ackman became a billionaire through operating the Pershing Square Capital Management hedge fund that he founded in 2004. He became famous in the financial world for his short position on bond insurer MBIA and his rescue of mall operator General Growth early on in his investment career. Bill Ackman is ranked #368 in 2021
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With buying and holding stock index ETFs becoming thought of as the holy grail of investing by everyone from Warren Buffett to young financial planners in this post we will look at alternatives. Too many young investors now believe that an index virtually guarantees a +8% annual return over most 10 and 20 year periods.
The new blockchain economy is being created online through the utility of both fungible tokens (cryptocurrencies) and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). A token is a digital unit of a cryptocurrency or NFT that are used as an asset or to represent a particular use on the blockchain. Tokens have many types of uses, but the most
Many people spend more time planning their vacation than their financial future. This is why too many end up working so hard for so long and ending up with so little. Self control, financial education, saving, business building, investing, and trading are paths to building net worth. Financial freedom comes from building your own business
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Within the cryptocurrency world, the Bitcoin dominance ratio is one of the first metrics created to quantify the strength of the bitcoin price in relation to the total altcoin market cap. It measures the bitcoin market cap relative to the overall value of the cryptocurrency market, it effectively shows the strength of bitcoin compared to
This is a guest post by @TradesViz of tradesviz.com How do you effectively use an online trading journal? Here’s a very simple flow that we recommend to our users at tradesviz.com. All it takes is 10 minutes every day and it’s worth every minute. First, you need to get your data into your journal. We
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There has been three distinct World Wide Web phases so far in its evolution. Web 1.0 was the first stage of the World Wide Web’s evolution that lasted from approximately 1991 to 2004. The first phase had fewer content creators than later phases. Most users on the early internet were simply consumers of website content,
The co-founder of the Ethereum blockchain, Charles Hoskinson, understood the limitations and challenges to the proof-of-work (PoW) blockchain networks over the long-term and decided to build an alternative. The problem with the first generation blockchains that require proof-of-work is the ability to scale, the interoperability between blockchains, and the sustainability with energy consumption as the
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Solana is a blockchain platform created and designed to host decentralized and scalable applications/smart contracts. Solana started with the publishing of a whitepaper in November 2017 by co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko describing the Proof of History (PoH) concept as a new way to verify blockchain transactions. PoH is a verifying order using the passage of time
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Here is a visual index of all the most popular chart patterns used by traders to visually trade price action in the path of least resistance. The most misunderstood concept of using chart patterns to trade is that the edge doesn’t come from their ability to predict the future or their win rate. The edge
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This is a guest post by Jeremy Wagner, CEWA-M @JWagnerFXTrader on twitter, Certified Elliott Wave Analyst-Master. His website is seethewaves.com. Getting Started with Elliott Wave Theory (Part 1) Elliott Wave Theory was discovered by Ralph Nelson Elliott in the 1930s as a way to describe the market’s behavior. Elliott realized the markets trended in repeatable and
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An inside candle pattern shows price is trading within the previous range of a time period. This candlestick pattern can show a trader that a chart is currently trading in a range and not breaking out and trying to swing or trend in one direction. This is a range bound indicator. An inside candle on a
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Self-help books were written with the purpose of teaching readers the principles and skills for solving personal problems. The authors are trying to explain a solution or a process for how to help yourself improve in an important area of your life. Self-help books can address different areas of your life like psychology, stress management,
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A list of the current most shorted stocks today can be the place to look for deep dip value buys. The stocks with the highest short interest across all major U.S. stock exchanges should be watched and stay updated on for short squeeze opportunities. These company stocks have the highest percentage of their shares borrowed to
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Mental models are a theoretical or scientific framework used for making decisions based on how someone believes the world works. Mental models start with internal beliefs and can be based on many factors like opinions, beliefs, facts, history, science, data, or patterns. The best mental models correlate with reality and give users a pathway to
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It is important to know what persuades us to make the decisions we do in life whether it is in our investments, personal finance, relationships, beliefs, or politics. Aristotle is believed to have explained the three modes of persuasion that we can experience as: Ethos, Logos, and Pathos. We can think more clearly in situations
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Here is the candlestick patterns cheat sheet for The Strat Combos trading strategy created by Rob F. Smith. This image started as a sketch from Sara Strat Sniper and was turned into an infographic cheat sheet by Kostchamore on Twitter. Printable Candlestick Patterns Cheat Sheet PDF TheStrat Combo Sheet-> Here Sara’s Ultimate Strat Guide. Must
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