The below chart is an example of a recent trend trade I did using a 5 day EMA/ 20 day EMA crossover entry and a rising trailing stop to maximize profits. 1. I entered $AGQ at $23.25 at the end of the day on 12/6/18 based on the 5-day / 20-day EMA crossover. My initial […]
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This is a Guest Post by AK of Fallible AK has been an analyst at long/short equity investment firms, global macro funds, and corporate economics departments. He co-founded Macro Ops and is the host of Fallible. The big news last week was Apple (AAPL) cutting first quarter revenue guidance on weaker than expected iphone sales.
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There was a question asked on finance Twitter by a wealth advisor that went something like this: “Okay, so you got out of the stock market and into cash in your 401K, and avoided the bear market, so when do you get back in?” Most portfolio managers believe in the long term, with asset diversification
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This is a guest post by Sam Hoffman, he is a consultant with Washington Brown Every year the real estate market changes and goes under some unexpected shifts. Depending on location, bank policy or fluctuating cultural opinion. Moreover, the mortgage crisis was a decade ago, and the industry can still fill the consequences. We don’t
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This is a Guest Post by AK of Fallible AK has been an analyst at long/short equity investment firms, global macro funds, and corporate economics departments. He co-founded Macro Ops and is the host of Fallible. If 2018 felt different then the past several years it’s because it was……. Gone are the days of portfolio
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Chart Courtesy of StockCharts.com $SPY remains over short term moving averages last week like the 5 day and 10 day EMA. $SPY price remains under all key long term moving averages 50/100/200/250. $VIX continued to trend lower last week to 18.19 as volatility has been contracting since the day after Christmas. The trading range has
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This is a Guest Post by Troy Bombardia of BullMarkets.co As the stock market rallies higher and approaches its 50% Fibonacci retracement resistance, we can see a clear divergence in the data: The economic data is mixed, with some long term macro models turning bearish. Breadth is long term bullish. Quantitative market patterns are medium
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What exactly is a chart pattern? A chart pattern is a visual representation of the actions of buyers and sellers in a market recorded in price action. A chart is not predictive of the future but shows what is happening with buyers and sellers in the present moment. The price action on a chart gives
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Profitable trading is not about opinions, not about a prediction, or even great stock tips or picks. Profitable trading is all about math, making more money on profitable trades than you lose on unprofitable trades. How you do this is the details. Trading without understanding the math creates randomness and luck in your process. Understanding
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Here are the first and most important lessons that a new trader needs to understand. All traders have to learn these lessons either the easy way and learn them from others or they can learn them the hard way by losing their own money. Do not start trading until you have a quantified trading system
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A mental model is an explanation of someone’s thought process about how something works in the real world. It is a representation of the surrounding world, the relationships between its various parts and a person’s intuitive perception about his or her own acts and their consequences. – Wikipedia Backtesting uses the scientific method to determine
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This is a Guest Post by AK of Fallible AK has been an analyst at long/short equity investment firms, global macro funds, and corporate economics departments. He co-founded Macro Ops and is the host of Fallible. 2018 was a rough year… so rough that for the first time, no major asset class outperformed inflation. This
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Chart courtesy of StockCharts.com $SPY price continues under all key moving averages except the 5 day EMA and 10 day EMA. $SPY broke out of its recent 10 day trading range Friday to close at $252.39. $SPY closed under the 10 day EMA Thursday and then reversed closing back over the 10 day
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This is a Guest Post by AK of Fallible AK has been an analyst at long/short equity investment firms, global macro funds, and corporate economics departments. He co-founded Macro Ops and is the host of Fallible. Is The 2019 Stock Market Crash Over? | Why The Bear Market Will Continue Is this latest down move
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This is a guest post by Avinash Mittal @Pure_Financial There is a close relationship between technical analysis and technical indicators. If technical analysis is an art and a science for trading the stock market and following price trends. Technical indicators help technical analysts react to any significant price action or volatility as it occurs in a
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This is a guest post from Tino @tradersreality. This article originally appeared on tradersreality.com and is reposted here by request. Everyone knows, the goal of a trader is to make money. Although this is the general consensus, having this frame of mind usually leads you to frustration and loss of money. So how do we
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This is a guest post by Roman Sadowski, chief analyst at Humble Traders We all get into trading the Forex Exchange Market wanting to be that guy who beats the market into submission with our own bare hands, and comes out smiling from ear to ear with a huge account balance! The guy who drives
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Thanks to everyone that took the time to vote in this year’s poll! There was a total of 8,174 total votes on our 7th annual Most Helpful Trader Poll. Here are the Top 20 ranked by vote and their quantity of votes. This total includes the main voting ballot and the write ins for each person.
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This is a Guest Post by Troy Bombardia of BullMarkets.co The stock market crashed and has now bounced. V shaped recoveries are rare, but not impossible. Most crashes are followed by a bounce and a retest of the lows. Source: Investing.com The economy’s fundamentals determine the stock market’s medium-long term outlook. Technicals determine the stock
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Charts Courtesy of StockCharts.com $SPY price remains under all key moving averages even after last week’s rally. All my moving average systems remain with cash signals here. The ATR continues to be near the yearly high at 6.53 due to the huge intra-day moves last week. The MACD remains under a bearish cross under. The
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