One example of a simple long term trend following system is the ‘Golden Cross’. This is the most popular and famous bullish moving average crossover entry signal along with its inverse ‘Death Cross’ bearish exit or short selling signal. The Golden Cross happens when the 50 day simple moving average crosses over the 200 day […]
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David Winton Harding is a billionaire trend following quant trader, and the founder and CEO of Winton Group. His fund was launched in 1997 with $1.6 million in assets and now has approximately $20 billion under management. His funds trading programs have returned a compounded +12.5% return over the last 19 years even with its size. David
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This is a Guest Post by Jake @TrendSpider. In this weekend blog post, we look at the broad markets taking a HUGE step back after quite the move over the last few months. Is this just a blip on the radar or something bigger? Make sure to check out our Sunday Chart Show this weekend with
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This is a Guest Post by Troy Bombardia of pythonforfinance.org Most traders begin trading with discretionary trading strategies since these strategies are usually easier to understand. Just pull up a chart, overlay some indicators onto the chart, and voila! You can start to understand, analyze, and learn about the market from Day 1! But as your trading experience
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What is FOMO? FOMO is an acronym that stands for the ‘Fear of Missing Out’ on an opportunity, event, or chance to make money. FOMO originally came from the feeling people had on social media when they saw other people having fun on social media somewhere else and had the feeling of missing out on
Why did the Coronavirus drop the stock market so fast? The stock market is a forward looking investment mechanism and is always pricing in the future earnings expectations today. The Coronavirus is a highly contagious and dangerous illness that has already caused the quarantine of Chinese cities, Italian towns, cruise ships, and travellers returning home
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There are many different types of trading strategies. Some traders trade with the trend buying high looking for higher highs or sell new low prices short looking for even lower lows in price, momentum strategies just look for a strong move to go a little farther, others trade a market inside a price range of
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This is a Guest Post by @BullDudeC of BullDude.com. A Japanese candlestick chart is a type of visual price display of a financial instrument. Usually charts are displayed as a line that combines the closing prices of the various trading sessions. The disadvantage of this type of display is that only the closing price
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Bernie Sanders current net worth is estimated to be approximately $2 million in February 2020. Sanders became mayor of Burlington, Vermont from 1981 to 1989. He was elected to the House of Representatives in 1991 and then the US senate in 2007. He is the longest serving independent in the history of congress. Bernie Sanders joined the Democratic Party
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Data analytics is the process of analyzing information through filtering it to transform the raw data into useable models. The goal is to uncover highly probably conclusions that can be used for an an edge in future decision making after seeing repeatable patterns of behavior from the data. Data analytics is reliant on applying statistics
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Michael Bloomberg’s net worth is currently $61.9 billion as of February 2020. This is up approximately $10 billion from November 2019. He is currently the 12th richest person in the world and the 12th richest person in the USA. How did Bloomberg create his personal wealth? Bloomberg started his financial career at Salomon Brothers, before founding his own
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A stop loss is a risk management tool that keeps your losing trades small. The point of a stop loss is defensive and to eliminate big losses from your trading. Here are ten tips for thinking about when placing a stop loss on a trade: Your stop loss should be a part of your trading
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Here are ten current high yielding dividend stocks in 2020 for income investors and value investors to take a look at. Purchasing a well known company listed on a major exchange that you are familiar with can add a margin of safety with high yielding stocks. Many times high yields can be a warning sign
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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. Since my last post regarding Martial arts and trading, I have been consolidating my thoughts on ways to improve our mindset of when we trade. Let’s face it. Mastering any craft, has no destination. Pit stops maybe, but
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There are two different types of stop orders you can place with your broker to exit a trade when a specific price level is reached that triggers your stop loss on a position. Both of these types of orders are risk management tools that try to limit the losses if a stock or market moves
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Here are thirteen of Warren Buffett’s favorite things. Warren Buffett’s favorite investing book: “The book that had the most impact on my life was ‘The Intelligent Investor’ by Ben Graham.” he says. Warren Buffett’s favorite book: Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street by John Brooks Warren Buffett’s favorite index fund is the
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This is a Guest Post by Jake @TrendSpider. In this weekend’s analysis, we analyze the moves made by SPY, QQQ, and IWM over the last week and beyond. On Sunday, We have TrendSpider partner and avid user of the platform, “AlwaysRed” on to discuss his trading style and how he uses TrendSpider.
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Trader and author Nassim Nicholas Taleb created the black swan theory of events as a metaphor to name an event that happens far outside the normal distribution of deviations from the mean and looks like a fat tail outside a normal bell curve. The term comes from how people thought all swans were white until
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Private equity is specifically a kind of stock ownership in a company that is not publicly traded on a stock exchange. In recent times though it has been what people call private funds that use capital to takeover companies (many times through leveraged buyouts) with the goal to rebuild the company’s business model to create
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In his book “Fooled by Randomness” author N.N Taleb shows the dangers of seeing patterns where there is only random noise, the danger of confusing luck with skill, and believing things can be predicted with accuracy that are simply randomly occurring. Randomness can become especially dangerous in trading and investing in the financial markets as
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