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 you’re aware of these option concepts before trading them. Options are a zero-sum game. You don’t own the underlying, so […]
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This is a guest post by Tom Buckland, the founder of Elite Forex Trading The best things to learn in life come from those who have proved successful in doing it themselves. Make as much effort as you can to learn from these people and what they have to offer. This applies to all aspects
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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. Stratasys (SSYS) is a massively underpriced stock with huge long-term compounding potential. The centerpiece of this long thesis
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This is a guest post by Phillip Konchar, he is the Head Tutor at My Trading Skills. The Forex market has some notable differences compared to the stock market, some of which may give an advantage to the Forex trader over his stock-trading peer. Nevertheless, we’ll try to explain the main differences between these two
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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 the classroom we were constantly praised and awarded for complexity. A desire for higher marks meant creating more pages of writing,
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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. Today we’ve got an update on the JD.com situation with the company’s CEO, Richard Liu, being accused of misconduct. Is he going
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Chart Courtesy of StockCharts.com $SPY has now had an orderly six days straight of lower highs and lower lows. This is what a down swing looks like. Volume has been increasing during this swing lower in prices. Price closed under the 10 day EMA the last two trading days breaking the short term uptrend. The
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This is a guest post by British Solomon, he is a contributing writer and media specialist for Market Realist. What is a stockbroker and what do they do for you? A stockbroker is a sales agent who works in the stock market where shares are traded. They help their clients maximize their profits and minimize
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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 talk about the types of returns you’re getting in with your trading/investing strategy. By the
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One sign of a new trader of an inexperienced investor is emotionally reacting too much to a single trade or a single days price movement. Success happens on a longer timeframe, one day or one trade can be random in nature on the short timeframe. Market edges play out over time with a larger sample
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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’re going to talk about how you can use big picture thinking to beat the market. And we’re going
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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. Howard Marks is the founder of Oaktree Capital — a hedge fund that manages $100 billion. Howard himself is worth almost $2
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You can’t determine whether mechanical entry and exit signals are viable for profitable trading unless you test it over a broad range of trading vehicles through different market environments. Recent price action can create bias and isolated examples are not enough to make decisions from. You have to start with your own watch list and
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Chart courtesy of StockCharts.com All time highs are bullish. The MACD stays under a bullish crossover. Short term support is the 10 day ema. The next area of support is the old breakout in the $286 area, then the 50 day sma. The 70 RSI area held as resistance at all time highs last week
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A back test is where a trader takes a series of historical price action data and tries to find patterns that were profitable in the past. The trouble is when a trader tries to keep changing the parameters of a back test until they fit in to a path to profitability in the past. A
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This is a guest post by Troy Bombardia, a private trader who shares fact-based market analysis at Bull Markets The U.S. stock market recently made a new all-time high. What’s next? The S&P 500 (U.S. stock market) recently made a new all-time high after 7 months. So what’s next for the U.S. stock market? Let’s
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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. Did Wall Street destroy Toys “R” Us? Are hedge funds the reason the company had to shut down completely? We talk about
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Where do our greatest trading mistakes come from while we are trading the financial markets? They arise primarily from within. It is not the price action that causes our missteps and mistakes but our response to the price action. Your ego will cause you to allow a small loss to grow into a big loss
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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 Fortnite makers, Epic Games, along with Netflix, Spotify and other tech companies have had enough of Apple and Google’s duopoly. This
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The key to learning and growing as a trader is to learn from mistakes that you make and not repeat them. The first time you commit an error that costs you money is just a mistake the second time is stubbornness, the third time you make a mistake is foolishness. You can be active in
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