When a market’s price action falls straight down making lower lows continuously without stopping or bouncing back it is considered a ‘falling knife’ on a chart because of its speed and trajectory. It’s not a good idea to buy into a chart with plunging price action that can’t find support before there is a signal […]
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A cognitive bias is a mental pattern that breaks from logic, reason, and the ability to rationally judge something through the filter of facts and reality. It is when an individual’s thinking is so clouded by their own subjective reality, memories, and experience that they are unable to interpret new information correctly. A cognitive bias
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Is technical analysis bullshit? Many people will dismiss technical analysis as useless before doing the homework to even fully understand what it is or how it should be used. Dismissing technical analysis as bullshit after hearing that academics dismissed it in a paper is like saying no one can make any money in the stock
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“It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.” – George Carlin The long term trend of the stock market is up. Not individual stocks, as some go up 1,000% and others go to $0 over the years. However, equities as an asset class tend to go higher over five and ten year periods most
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Look for a mission in life not a job. “Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.” – Oriental proverb A career has a path where education and experience leads to growth in value and pay. A job can be any place you go to receive
This is a Guest Post by Jake @TrendSpider In this weekend blog post, you will find our “Top 5 TrendSpider Charts This Week”, weekend analysis, and the link the this Sunday’s event! Make sure to check out our Sunday Event, “Lesson’s From Volatility Masters” this weekend starting at 10 AM EST!
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Ray Dalio designed an asset allocation that is supposed to be able to weather any economic storm, manage risk exposure, and make steady returns over the long term. He calls it the All Weather Portfolio and it diversifies by holding multiple asset classes: bonds, commodities, and stocks. Tony Robbins first made this portfolio popular in
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This is a guest post by Manu Shoker of manushoker.com. Why Trading and Investing are so Fundamentally Different There is a popular misconception that trading and investing could be used interchangeably with one another. But as professional traders and investors can attest to, they are both radically different. It’s easy to mix the terms when both
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With the endless choices of podcasts on investing to listen to in 2020 I thought it would be helpful to recommend five that I enjoy and think bring great value and information to listeners. These five are a great place to start and listen to a few episodes and see if they align with your
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“Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” ― Tim Notke There are plenty of people with talent. There are people born with some innate talents naturally over others. As someone enters higher levels of competition whether in sports, business, academics, or investing, talent is not enough. All your competition has some level of skills and
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Financial freedom is achieved when you have created enough wealth and/or cash flowing assets to live on and no longer need to depend on a paycheck as an employee. You are then financially free from a job, a boss, and a company. There are many ways to make a living in the 21st century other
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What is Positive Expectancy? The closest a trader can hope to come to a “Holy Grail” of profitable trading is a trading system with a positive expectancy. A trader’s focus should not be on predictions, stock picking, opinions, or being right all the time. The best focus is on creating a quantified system with an
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Unusual options activity can provide insight on what smart money, insiders, and big traders are doing with large volume option orders. Unusual options activity can tip a large traders hand and be a sign that a big bet has been placed for a potential move in price for the underlying stock that has a high probability.
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This is a guest post by Jake @TrendSpider. In this weekend blog post, you will find our “Top 5 TrendSpider Charts This Week”, weekend analysis, and the link the this Sunday’s show! Make sure to check out our Sunday Chart Show this weekend at 6 PM EST with Steve Burns, founder of NewTraderU.com.
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Technical analysis can be both an art or a science based on how you use it. It is very easy to become too rigid in its practice believing it can become a crystal ball or too flexible and see whatever you want to see. Here are ten common mistakes people make in the practice of
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The uptick rule stops the short selling of a stock in a sharp downtrend by restricting the ability to sell when a stock is going down in price and only allowing new short selling as a stock is going up in price. To follow the rule a new short sell can only occur at a
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Selling short reverses the process of buying and selling higher. When selling short you borrow shares and sell first hoping to buy back later at a lower price for a profit. Selling short goes against the long term trend in the stock market and has to be done when charts create the best chances that
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Larry Williams is a legendary trader and the author of approximately 11 books on trading stocks and commodities. He developed several technical market indicators like the Williams %R, Ultimate Oscillator, COT indices, accumulation/distribution indicators and others to measure cycle forecasts, market sentiment, and also for quantifying the values for commodity prices. He is most famous for winning
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In options trading a credit spread is an options play where a trader buys one option and sales another option contract of the same stock and expiration but at different strike price levels. This type of option play construction attempts to make a net profit when the price spread between the two different options gets
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The MACD is an abbreviation for the moving average convergence/divergence technical trading indicator and is used in technical analysis to filter the trends, swings, and momentum of price action. It is designed to reveal changes in price strength, direction, momentum, and duration for the moves of trends and swings. The MACD is a simple visual momentum indicator. The
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