Here are the required reading recommendations by Larry @LMT978 that can create the foundation of your trading library. Larry lead in my online poll as the most helpful trader on twitter up until the last few hours. He has studied trend following for many years and I actually knew him from Facebook before twitter and he has […]
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10 Price Action Trading Tips You Can Learn in 10 Minutes 418 Likes The 5th Annual Most Helpful Trader on Twitter Poll – 2016 302 Likes How to be a Profitable Trader in 180 Days 228 Likes The 7 Most Important Money Decisions of Your Life 104 Likes The 5 Holy Grails of Trading 70
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Long term the $SPY chart is still in an uptrend. $SPY remains within striking distance of all time highs in price. But needs price consolidation and a pullback before it can really go higher. The odds of success favor buying pullbacks. In the short term $SPY is on the wrong side of the 10 day
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With more than 5,000 votes cast in our annual poll, the results are in! Congratulations to this year’s winner of the Most Helpful Trader on Twitter poll- @Alsabogal! And what a photo-finish, edging out @LMT978 by just two votes! And rounding out the top three was @ACInvestorBlog. Below you can see a list of the
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6 of the 17 highest volume stocks that crossed over and closed over the 200d today were Gold Miners. — LMT978 (@LMT978) December 30, 2016 I have absolutely no views or predictions about stocks, bonds, gold, any of it. I don't make market calls. I just trade lines on a screen. — LMT978 (@LMT978) December
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3 Lessons I Got From A Proprietary Trading Firm Founder & Trader This is a guest post from Etienne Crete @DesireToTrade. For years, I have been passionate about trading. It is a discipline that is generally unknown by a lot of people and seen as mysterious by many. Nevertheless, I gave it a try three years
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This is a Guest Post by Alex @MacroOps which was originally posted HERE. From Jack Schwager’s Market Wizards: October 1987 was a devastating month for most investors as the world stock markets witnessed a collapse that rivaled 1929. That same month, the Tudor Futures Fund, managed by Paul Tudor Jones, registered an incredible 62 percent
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“Winners do quit all the time, they just quit the right stuff at the right time.” – Seth Godin Quitting is not always the wrong thing to do. There is a time when you have to decide what you want and go get it, there are times to stop if you hit a dead end
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It’s that time of year again! Time to choose the most helpful trader on Twitter Finance for 2016. Who gave you the most encouragement, saved you some money, or inspired you to be a better trader? Choose from the list, or write in the Twitter handle of your favorite trader. Poll closes December 31st.
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This is a fun festive Christmas Guest post from Andrew Derbyshire: On The Twelve Days Of Christmas My Central Banker sent to me: Twelve Non Farm Payrolls Eleven Market Gurus Ten All Time Highs Nine Rounds Of Printing Eight Analyst Upgrades Seven Faulty Samsung Phones Six Twitter
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10 Things That Don’t Work Trading Stocks Are You Tracking 2016’s Most Influential FinTweeters? How to find an edge in the markets (a proven approach) Respect to the Trader, the Epitome of the Entrepreneur
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The #SPX has traded in an intra-day range of less than 0.35% three straight days. Going back 45 years, this has never happened before. — Ryan Detrick, CMT (@RyanDetrick) December 23, 2016 This #bull market is 3 yrs old. It might sound old, till you look at history. https://t.co/1lGqNF2gcy pic.twitter.com/quRvPnVyX4 — Ryan Detrick, CMT (@RyanDetrick)
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In over 25 years of learning what works and what doesn’t in the stock market I believe there are many paradoxes. Most of trading is counter intuitive and new traders usually enter the market looking for predictions, sure things, hot tips, and to know what to buy. In reality it is following price action as
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The $UVXY ETF started trading in October of 2011 and it seeks a return that is 2 times the return of the VIX on a daily basis. Due to the compounding of daily returns, the $UVXY’s returns over periods other than one day will be very different than just holding double the $VIX due to
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Intuition In Trading And Investing: Can You Trust It? This is a Guest Post by Alex @MacroOps which was originally posted HERE. Do you ever get that feeling that a certain trade will be huge? That you should size up on it and go for the jugular? You can’t exactly describe why this trade is
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This is a Guest Post by Dante Vincent you can find him on Twitter @DGTrading101. This post originally appeared on his website dgtrading101.blogspot.com. It is reposted here with permission. I get approached with this question so often. “How do I find direction in my trading? I don’t have a niche. I feel like everybody has one and
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$SPY continues to stay in a strong uptrend but is starting to consolidate gains. $SPY traded in a $224 support and $227 resistance trading range last week. Price has become very extended from the 50 day and 200 day SMA and even the 10 day EMA. A small pullback is likely next week to the 10
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Karen “The Supertrader” Goes Rogue iShares Italy ETF (EWI): A Risk Reversal Options Trading Setup All Indexes Are Not Created Equal Personal finances are more important than portfolio management. Shhhh! Blazing Your Own Trading Trail
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Times in the past 35 years that the 30-Yr Treasury Bond has been more oversold than today (using 14-week RSI)…19841987199420062013 pic.twitter.com/Sp6K64sBGV — Charlie Bilello, CMT (@charliebilello) December 16, 2016 Ratio of S&P 500 to Gold at an 11-year high. $SPY outperforming $GLD since its inception (Nov '04) for the first time since 2005. pic.twitter.com/GVSfm0Z305 —
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This is a Guest Post by Dante Vincent you can find him on Twitter @DGTrading101. His website is dgtrading101.blogspot.com. Routine & Extraneous Influence – How Important are they to your Trading? Routine. This is one of the most important tools in your trading arsenal and you don’t even know it. What you do day in and day
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