Trading is a numbers game more than anything. Here are seven crucial numbers and statistics that a serious trader needs to set expectations around and know. Some can be found through historical backtesting, some can be controlled, others give the trader a target to aim for. Once a trader understands these numbers and does the […]
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Trading with no stop losses. You can’t control your profits but you can control and limit your losses with a planned exit. Not having an exit plan can be very expensive when a trend starts against your position and you start hoping instead of just cutting your losses and moving on. Your opinion can be
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$SPY is currently under all bull signals. $SPY has had six trading days of higher highs and higher lows, this is what an up trend looks like. The market has trended higher on good volume. Price is above all key moving averages. $SPY is near all time highs. RSI is parabolic with a 77.61 overbought
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If you have a winning system with the right risk management you can still fail to be profitable if you do not have the right trading psychology to trade it with discipline. If you have a winning system with the right trading psychology you can still fail to be profitable by blowing up during a
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This is a Guest Post by: Colibri Trader @priceinaction. This article is used here with permission and originally appeared here on ColibriTrader.com. Why Did China Ban Cryptocurrency and What Are The Consequences of It? Hi all, This article is definitely about cryptocurrency. I am sure you are already used to the content on my website to
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This is a guest post from the website professionaltradingsystems.com. In this article I would like to touch upon a very often neglected topic: trading costs. Many of us – traders – for some reason are not cautious enough regarding the matter and there are many examples of failed live trading results because of incorrect trading
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This is a guest post contributed by Paul Koger. A positions trader and a blogger over at https://foxytrades.com Contrarian Trading – How It Can Be a Lucrative Option for Investors and Traders Alike Contrarian trading is a type of value investing whereby an investor buys distressed stocks at low price with the aim of selling
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This is a Guest Post by: Colibri Trader @priceinaction. This article is used here with permission and originally appeared on ColibriTrader.com. at: Trading Jokes and Humour or How Not to Get Idle When There Are No Trading Opportunities Hi guys, Today I decided to write on a different type of topic. Usually, after winning streaks, it
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All bull signals are a go here as the uptrend in price continues over every moving average. The 10 day ema has provided end of day support for 22 straight trading days. The trading range and volatility continues to fall creating the most calm September trading in history. VIX falls to a historically low 9.51.
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This is a Guest Post by Alex @MacroOps which was posted originally here: Liquidity, The NFCI, And Leverage and is reposted here with permission. If you want to trade macro, you need to understand liquidity. PTJ, Druck, Soros, Dalio — all these legends have expressed this fact multiple times. Liquidity is what moves markets. This
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This is a guest post from the website professionaltradingsystems.com. In this article, I would like to present you with 3 widespread myths about automated trading which are very popular among the newbies and drag people into the naïve conclusion that you could beat the market easily and without any effort. What is needed is to
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This is a guest post by Faris Sleem @TradeWithTechs. This article originally appeared on his website at www.tradewithtechs.com and is republished here with permission. Benefits Trend trading is one of the most common trading methods due to its success. Personally, I trade continuation chart setups for stocks in a strong bullish trend. Ideally, you are trading a
“Before you can trade you have to get your personal finances in order so you can build up enough capital to open a trading account. Before you can trade you must first develop the self control and discipline to earn, save, and grow enough capital to enter the game in the first place”. – Steve
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This is a guest post by Antoine Martel @martelantoine. This guest post is shared from his website with permission, originally posted here www.martelantoine.com. As a real estate investor who invests out-of-state, I get asked all the time what are the best markets to invest in and how do I go about finding those markets. Over the
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This is a Guest Post by Yvan Byeagee. He is one of my personal favorite teachers of trading psychology. His website is at TradingComposure.com. Transform Your Market Performance With This Simple Shift It’s not the markets that throw us lemons, it’s what we do with them. Keep this in the back of your mind. Now
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SPY stays bullish near all time highs. SPY is above every moving average. The 50 day SMA continues to slope upwards. The volatility on the average trading range continues to fall to 1.21. The MACD is under a bullish crossover. The RSI is at a bullish 64.61 with more room to run until it is
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This is a Guest Post by Yvan Byeagee. He is one of my personal favorite teachers of trading psychology. His website is at TradingComposure.com. The Truth About Willpower Revealed *Hint- Alone It Won’t Make You A Profitable Trader Part of you knows you shouldn’t remove the stop-loss (that’s the more rational part of your mind),
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This is a Guest Post by: Colibri Trader @priceinaction. This article is used here with permission and originally appeared here on ColibriTrader.com. Money is power. This is true since its inception and will still be true in the years to come. The last few centuries saw economies rise and fall, mostly due to war. But,
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This is a Guest Post by Alex @MacroOps which was posted originally here: The Label Stupidity Loop and is reposted here with permission. “I’m a Democrat… I’m an Evangelical Christian… I’m a Trump Supporter… I’m a Value Investor… I’m a Bernie Bro… I’m a Neo-Keynesian… I’m a Scientologist… I’m a… I’m a…” Humans love adopting
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