This is a Guest Post by Jake @TrendSpider. In this weekend’s analysis, we take a look at the broad market ETF’s as the markets closed green. We take a look at SPY, QQQ, and IWM while using Multi-timeframe analysis, Raindrop Charts(TM), automated settings, and more! Don’t miss this weekend’s webinar as we do a panel […]
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Apple is one of the top performing stocks of the past 27 years with a +11,393% return but what if I told you there was a trend trading signal that doubled those returns to +25,896%? Would you be interested? The power of moving average crossover signals is first in finding the right short and long
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Legendary trader John Paulson is a hedge fund manager that leads the Paulson & Co. he founded in 1994. He made one of the biggest fortunes in Wall Street history in 2007 when he earned almost $4 billion personally and became a legend in the industry. Paulson used credit default swaps to place a trade
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The ‘Dogs of the Dow’ investment strategy first became popular when of Michael B. O’Higgins’s published the book, “Beating the Dow,” in 1991 where the phrase “Dogs of the Dow” was first used. The ‘Dogs of the Dow’ strategy is a very simple strategy based on the theory that a high dividend yield means a
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Warren Buffett has established himself as one of the greatest investors of all time in both size of operations and consistent long term return on capital. He has created the sixth largest company in the U.S. with corporate conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway. From 1965 to 2017, Berkshire Hathaway’s rising market value generated a 20.9% annual return compared to
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Position trading is when you hold a position over a longer period of time of weeks and months because you think there is a good possibility that it will go in your favor in that time period for a big profit. Position traders try to trade in a higher time frame the intra-day noise that
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I get asked a lot about what are the best Forex trading books on the market. The following are the best based on a combination of sales ranking, a high overall review ranking on Amazon, the amount of other online recommendations for the book, and my own experience. While all the great trading books overlap
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When you enter a trade a stop loss is the exit tool you use to know when it is time to get out of the trade because you are losing money. A stop loss is the tool you use to prevent a small loss from becoming a big loss. This is one of the most
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This is a Guest Post by Jake @TrendSpider. In this weekend’s analysis, we take a look at the broad market ETF’s as each day was a rollercoaster ride over the last week. We take a look at SPY, QQQ, and IWM while using Multi-timeframe analysis, Raindrop Charts(TM), automated settings, and more! Don’t miss this weekend’s
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Moving averages are technical trading tools that can help identify trends on different time frames. They can replace opinions and predictions for making trading decisions by being used as signals. Moving averages can identify trends in real time but are not as useful during choppy or range bound markets. Here are ten ways to use
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Here are five steps that will help you become a better trader by taking you through the most important steps in your learning curve if you are early in your journey. As a new trader, you must have realistic expectations about your risk tolerance and return goals. What type of return are you trying to
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A short squeeze is when a big rally to the upside happens during a downtrend in a market due to a lack of sellers at lower prices combined with the pressure on current short sellers to be forced to buy to cover due to the reversal in the market trend creating upside price pressure. Short
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Howard Marks is an investor, writer, and author. After working for Citibank early in his career at senior positions, he joined TCW in 1985 and created and managed the High Yield, Convertible Securities and Distressed Debt groups. He left TCW in 1995 and co-founded Oaktree Capital Management. Mr. Marks net worth is $2.2 billion as of 2019. He
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In the past decade I have seen a lot of trading blogs come and go. Here is a list of the blogs that are still active and that I think are among the best online. These blogs share great information on trading, psychology, and risk management. Some of the content you will find on these
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Michael J. Burry was once a physician then a hedge fund manager of Scion Capital from 2000 until 2008, before closing it to focus on his own personal investments and trades. Michael Burry was made famous by his depiction in the movie ‘The Big Short’ played by Christian Bale based on the book by Michael
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Buy and hold investing on the S&P 500 index with a low cost mutual fund is a top performing system first made popular by Jack Bogle. Warren Buffett also recommends this strategy as a way to beat the majority of mutual fund managers and hedge fund managers. Most financial advisers recommend this buy and hold
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Ray Dalio founded the Hedge Fund Bridgewater Associates out of his apartment in 1975. He opened an office in Westport, Connecticut by 1981, and grew it into becoming the world’s largest hedge fund by 2005. As of 2019 it has over $124.7 billion in assets under management. In 2007 Bridgewater starting seeing warning signs there
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Trading for a living is a professional endeavor like any other. It requires a large amount of capital to go full time like any other business and the returns are irregular much like being a commissioned sales person. It is less about trading from a lap top on the beach with a Lamborghini in the
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This is a Guest Post by Arnout ter Schure on Twitter @intell_invest. Using my mechanical system’s results to test the “is trading the close or open more profitable?” thesis. SPX Trading System Signals Some say one should only trade the close because the overnight Futures markets carry most of the stock market’s gains, see here. Others
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Profitable trading principles are the same for both day traders and swing traders, what changes is the time frame they operate on and the different psychology that is required. There is no right or wrong way to trade, there are profitable traders on all time frames but let’s discuss the pros and cons of day
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