Will This Data Breach Actually HELP Facebook?!? The news all says that the Cambridge Analytica data leak was terrible for Facebook. Regulation will come in a wreck the company’s advertising model. But is this true? What if more regulation actually HELPS Facebook. There is potential for regulation to make Facebook an entrenched incumbent. This may […]
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This week $SPY has been under a MACD bearish cross under. On Thursday morning $SPY gapped down out of the symmetrical triangle pattern. $VIX spiked up to 23.35 this week. ATR slightly increased this week. RSI has stayed under the 50 RSI this week showing a loss of momentum. The uptrend is now damaged after
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This is a guest post by Deb Shaw of MarketsNow.com. Should we expect to see reliable commodity backed cryptocurrencies emerge in the future? The reality is that such cryptocurrencies would be backed by a range of different financial assets (stocks, bonds, precious metals etc.) hosted in reputable jurisdictions with fully audited financial statements. However, there
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Chart Courtesy of StockCharts.com Last week $SPY retraced the previous big bullish candle ending lower. The 10 day EMA acted as end of day support last week. Price remains bullish and over the key moving averages 10 day, 50 day, 100 day, 200 day. $SPY is trading inside a price range that is consolidating.
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We’re excited to announce that to give our followers a better user experience, we are migrating NewTraderU.com to a new platform this week. Although we don’t expect there to be any significant interruptions in service, we ask for your patience while we roll-out these improvements. In addition to an improved blog reading experience, the new
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All your trades should end in one of four ways: 1. A small win: You take a profitable exit, this is usually a short term trade. 2. A big win: You let a winning trade run when you are on the right side of a trend. This is the biggest contributor to profitable trading as
This is a Guest Post by Alex @MacroOps which was posted originally here: High Quality Trading Is Episodic, Not Continuous and is reposted here with permission. There’s two types of market returns. Alpha and beta. Beta is what you get for diversifying and passively holding the market. Alpha is the opposite. It requires an edge,
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So many people will quickly judge traders and investors as gamblers. In many families you can’t discuss trading openly without judgmental stares, rolling eyes, and disapproval. The general public does not understand that on a deeper level everyone is a trader in some way. We trade one thing in order to receive another thing. Not
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This is a guest post by BlockBliss.com: 10 useful tips for cryptocurrency beginners “There are loads of success stories from cryptocurrency investors that hit it big. However, where there are winners there are likely a lot of less fortunate investors too. Don’t become one of those statistics, prepare yourself! The infographic below is a good
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the stock just got ahead of itself — StockCats (@StockCats) March 13, 2018 Stocks are down on ‘profit taking’ — Mr. Breakout (@sharptraders) March 13, 2018 Buy low sell high — John Grimley (@jgrim375) March 13, 2018 Don’t put all your Eggs in the same basket — vinaykumar (@vinne786) March 13, 2018 “It’s
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“Trend following is a form of technical analysis. However, it is not predictive technical analysis, but rather it is reactive technical analysis. This is key to understand.” – Michael Covel All that matters for a trader is what they are doing right now in the current moment. Their potential entry set ups, their stop losses,
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The bulls regained control of the stock market last week. Price is back over all moving averages. The key 10 day ema remains over the 50 day ema which is a bullish crossover system. The tech sector was leading the move back up with $XLK and $QQQ breaking to new all time highs in price.
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The normal path of nature has fragile things like living creatures and mechanical things follow a ‘bathtub curve’ where, after being a baby then child the probabilities of death increases as time goes by. For fragile things age and health determine the probability of continued survival which is the basis of insurance companies mortality tables
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This is a Guest Post Vlog 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. How does the Federal Reserve manipulate financial markets and your money? They do it by controlling risk premium spreads… The goal
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Thus is a Guest Post by Coinlist.me: Bitcoin has rocketed in value over the last 12 months, with its market cap at its peak reaching over $336 billion. For something that has no value according to many naysayers, it seems to be doing very well indeed! Like any tangible asset that’s actively traded, its value
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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. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIGLj6T5TkU&feature=youtu.be Did Kylie Jenner kill Snapchat? Maybe… In the video above we cover what exactly is happening with Snapchat as a company
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The $SPY has transitioned to a range bound market with price between the 200 day SMA support and all time high resistance. The average trading range remains elevated at a 4.62 ATR. Volatile moves last week went in both directions. The MACD is in the process of a bearish cross under. With the loss of
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The top 10 causes of big losses in trading: Too stubborn to exit when proven wrong: You just refuse to take a loss, you think a loss is not real as long as you do not exit a trade. Too much ego to take a loss: You are on the wrong side of the market
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It is interesting when looking through the past few years of my trading activity that my profitability came from the longer term trades. The profits were in the trades that caught trends of weeks and months not a trade for a day or two. I have found the less I trade the more money I
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