This is a Guest Post by: Troy Bombardia @bullmarketsco his website is MarketHistory.org. Mainstream financial media is tripping all over itself about “the stock market’s terrible breadth and why the stock market will crash”. Because hey, bad news sells like hot cakes. *A lot of traders have an obsession with breadth. The reality is simple: […]
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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 Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla (TSLA), right about short sellers? Should what they do be illegal?
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Risk management is one of the most overlooked aspects of investing and trading. Too much energy effort and focus is placed on entries and picking the right stocks. Risk management is the defensive aspect of trading. A lack of respect of risk is what removes many traders from the markets permanently at all levels. Here
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Chart Courtesy of StockCharts.com In October we saw the seasonal tendency for expanded volatility to the downside. A pullback to the 50 day SMA is a normal pullback in a strong bull market. VIX was held at 14.82 back under it’s 200 day moving average. The VIX expansion failed over the 200 day SMA twice
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A moving average is a line on a chart that represents the average of prices over a specific timeframe, it changes as the price changes in the timeframe it represents. Moving averages are technical tools that traders use to identify trends on charts. A simple moving average is just the average of prices in
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This is a Guest Post by Alex @MacroOps which was posted originally here: is reposted here The Psychology Behind Managing A 20 Bagger with permission. What do you do with a massively profitable trade that has grown to become a large percentage of your total portfolio value? This question has been circulating in the Macro
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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. Make sure to watch the entire China’s Downfall series here: https://bit.ly/2Ig0JZz A lot of people have been getting mad
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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. To learn more about China’s Downfall, make sure you read Macro Ops’ article: https://bit.ly/2IkYHYm Make sure to watch our entire series here
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This is a Guest Post by Troy Bombardia of BullMarkets.co The U.S. stock market has made a breadth divergence recently. We examined the S&P 500’s breadth divergence yesterday. While this isn’t necessarily bearish, there are a cluster of signals in 2007 (near the previous bull market’s top). We are seeing more and more of a
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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. To determine the return potential of any trading strategy you have to look at three things, edge, frequency, and position size. Edge
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Chart Courtesy of StockCharts.com $SPY remains near all time highs of $293.22. It is bullish to be within striking distance of all time highs. Price remains bullishly over all moving averages. $SPY lost the 10 day EMA as intraday support last week showing the market starting to go sideways in a range. $SPY has been
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This is a Guest Post by Troy Bombardia of Bull Markets. Q3 has been exceptionally strong. Here’s why stocks will do well in Q4 Q3 2018 is now over. So far, the U.S. stock market’s price action has exhibited extreme strength. This is from yesterday’s market study. The S&P 500 has gone up 6 months
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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. In this video we’ll be talking about how the Gerschenkron growth model spells disaster for China and Chinese stocks. Make sure to
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In the below video I explain how to position size properly to manage your risk by keeping your losses to a small percent of your total trading capital. A 20% position of your total trading capital gives you a potential 5% stop loss on your position to equal 1% of total trading capital. A 10% position
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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. As my trading career developed I began to think deeply about the market’s first principles. And that’s when I landed on a
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This is a guest post by independent trader Max. Let’s face it. Most of us have started in the trading world with the view that in a matter of no time, we’ll spend an hour a day trading from our luxury yacht and then wonder what to buy with the millions we make. Does this
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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. Occam’s Razor, a principle conceived in the middle ages by a philosopher named William of Ockham, basically states that when given two
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Chart Courtesy of StockCharts.com $SPY made a new all time high on Friday then closed under Thursday’s high of the day. $SPY is currently still triggering all bullish moving average long signals. Thursday’s breakout to new highs was on increasing volume while Friday’s reversal at the 70 RSI was on even higher volume. $SPY ran
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Being a profitable trader is not just about changing what you do but who you are. Unprofitable traders tend to be impulsive, greedy, impatient, and take actions that are random. You don’t need to do one great trade, the odds are that one big trade will cause more damage than good. Like most lottery winners
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Here are twelve fast facts about writing covered call options on your stock holdings: A covered call gives the buyer of the call the right but not the obligation to call away your stock at the strike price. The option chain you want to trade has to have liquidity to avoid losing too much in
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