Which trader type are you? Understand the differences between swing-trading and day-trading Best Practices, Best Processes, and Why Traders Don’t Reach Their Potential Stock Market Outlook: Are Investors Too Excited For Santa? The Flaw in The Critique of Technical Analysis Reuters Poll: U.S. Managers Keep Equity Allocations Steady Near Record Lows
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A quick guide to trading technical chart patterns for easy profits pic.twitter.com/3AvWerpi4p — Tom Dante (@Trader_Dante) December 4, 2015 Oh it must be NFP pic.twitter.com/qfnOB1hTlO — Tom Dante (@Trader_Dante) December 4, 2015 in an alternate universe the unemployment rate is actually the percentage of people that don't have jobs – and it's well over 5%
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I am looking for suggestions for candidates to be on my most helpful trader on twitter poll for 2015. In past years it has been a great way for the trading community to vote for their favorite trader on twitter. It also helps everyone to discover new people to follow that add value to their
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Day traders can lose money in markets with low volatility. Trend followers don’t make money without a trend and lose money in whipsawing markets. Swing traders can’t make money in tight ranges. Investors lose money in bear markets. Option buyers need trends to make money, and option sellers need small moves in prices to make
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Bullish Facts about the $FB Chart All short term moving averages are over long term moving averages: 10 day over the 20 day and 50 day over the 200 day. Price broke above the 10 day EMA after being below it for four days. Price broke back above the 17 day descending trend line.
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Today two monster stocks broke out on the highest volume of the past year for $BABA and the 2nd highest volume of the year for $BIDU. $BABA’s average 10 day trade volume is 17 million shares, today it traded 72.5 million shares during market hours and another 25 million shares in the after hours and
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Last week the stock market did an amazing job recovering from bad news, terrorist threats, and the Russian/Turkey pilot incident. Rallying on bad news is bullish. Being within striking distance of all time high prices is bullish for $SPY. For the past seven trading days the 10 day EMA has acted as end of day
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Russia took out 1000 terrorist oil tankers in 5 days. Anonymous disabled 25,000 terror Twitter accounts. The US closed fantasy football. — Downtown Josh Brown (@ReformedBroker) November 23, 2015 My tailor said I’ve reached my inflation target. — Downtown Josh Brown (@ReformedBroker) November 23, 2015 Every day I google “10 best traders of all time”.
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Guest post by Holly Burns As most of you know, I’m not a trader. I’m a writer and web developer who married (luckily) one of the most patient and knowledgeable traders around, Steve Burns. Steve has taught me so much about trading in the last year that’s it’s hard to sum it up in
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Bullish MACD Crossover 56.92 RSI is bullish Price break above the 10 day EMA Price break above the 50 day SMA Strong break on 2nd highest volume in eleven days Bullish breakout of the symmetric triangle Next breakout the 200 day SMA?
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This is a guest blog post from Rolf at Tradeciety: The victim-trader – is trading really unfair and rigged? High frequency trading, rigged markets, unexpected news and insider trading makes profitable trading impossible for the regular trader. But is that really true, and is trading becoming harder and harder these days? Trading isn’t becoming harder
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$BABA broke the downward trend line. It broke over the 10-day EMA. It broke over the 200-day SMA. The 50-day SMA has begun to slope upwards. The 60 RSI is bullish and gives it room to climb higher. It rallied as the rest of the market was down Monday. $BABA continues to go up on
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Recently the top 10 stocks in the S&P 500 were +13.9%. The other 490 were -5.8%. This is the largest spread since the late 1990s. This market continues to lack breadth. The leaders control the direction. In swing trading markets, momentum signals fail for the upside and downside. On Monday the bulls stepped back into
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Flat 200 Day Moving Averages Create Headaches Investing success isn’t about genius ― it is about staying power The 14 best lessons from “What I learned losing a million Dollars” Every Problem Is An Outdated Solution I Owe Etrade $106k, Ouch!
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And therein is the best description of how a pro trader views losing – "unpleasant but a necessary drawback" — Tom Dante (@Trader_Dante) November 16, 2015 When you get hammered in the stock market, all u can do is take it out on your kids… pic.twitter.com/cEUk0ZB9E9 — Modern_Rock (@modern_rock) November 19, 2015 Success… it's all
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“Don’t ever average losers.” When a trade is going against you it means you are wrong. Adding to a loser just usually makes it bigger and your stress overwhelming. “Never trade in situations where you don’t have control.” Getting into a trade that you can’t easily get out of is a dangerous trade in itself.
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Never trade so big that you end up watching every price tick even though you are not a day trader. Don’t trade so big you dramatically increase your pulse rate or get the sweats. Each trade should only be one of your next one hundred. Never risk more than 1% of your trading account on
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Top Five Trading Lessons From Market Wizard Dr. Van. K. Tharp from the book “Market Wizards”: “The composite profile of a losing trader would be someone who is highly stressed and has little protection from stress, has a negative outlook on life and expects the worst, has a lot of conflict in his/her personality, and
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