My Favorite Trading Articles for Week 10/3/15
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Top Trading Tweets of the Week 10/2/15
The good news is that 142,000 people got jobs in September. The bad news is they’re all Draft Kings. — Downtown Josh Brown (@ReformedBroker) October 2, 2015 OK, everyone trot out your pet reason for why the Dow reversed 350 points today. I’ll print the t-shirts. — Downtown Josh Brown (@ReformedBroker) October 2, 2015 The
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10 Facts About the $IWM Chart
$IWM has closed lower than the previous day 9 out of the last 10 days. This is bearish. Wednesday’s rally was rejected Thursday. This is bearish. The MACD is under a big bearish cross. $IWM did have a reversal candle today, but it failed to close over yesterday’s high of day. $IWM is down -8.9%
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My Favorite 5 Facebook Pages about Trading
Here are five of my favorite facebook pages. These facebook pages provide great trading quotes, articles, links, and more. They are a great part of any facebook news feed for those interested in the financial markets. You will recognize many of these from Twitter. Trading Legends NewTraderU.com StockTwits Tradeciety Trend Following
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5 Books That Give Specific Trading Systems
There are many trading books that discuss the principles and philosophy of trading, and I have read hundreds of them. Here are five books that discuss actual systematic ways to trade price action. Here you will find specific trading models with potential buy and sell signals. These are great places to start on your path
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My Favorite Trading Articles 9/27/15
Complexity as a Default Cognitive Style: Why Traders Succeed–And Fail–In Financial Markets Learn from the most successful traders of all times. This is what they do S&P 500 Market Update: Check Your Ego At The Door Keeping Things Simple and Tuning out Folly
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12 Crappy $SPY Chart Facts: 9/27/15
If you think that suddenly your trading sucks or that your method no longer works, it’s not you, it’s the market. Only skillful day traders and perfectly timed short sellers are really making money this year. The chart is really trendless but makes erratic moves inside the tight range. $SPY is down 6.17%
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Top Trading Tweets 9/25/15
Don't ask me when to exit lol you are on your own but you should always think of this pic.twitter.com/WPBfOqoxx1 — DK1 (@canuck2usa) September 25, 2015 "headed into the 4th Quarter of 2015 we think gold will be outperforming the Dow" – said no one pic.twitter.com/l8wZswdNA4 — StockCats (@StockCats) September 24, 2015 Yes. That's happening
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10 Signs a Market is in a Downtrend
A market is trading under it’s 200 day simple moving average. The market price is trading under all short term moving averages. The MACD has made a bearish crossover. The daily chart’s RSI is under 30. A chart has made lower highs and lower lows for weeks. You are seeing large wicks at the top
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Why Bear Markets Steamroll Bulls
Having a bull mindset in a bear market is not profitable. Bear markets have no long term support, they can make lower lows for a long time. Buying pullbacks is not profitable in bear markets because pullbacks turn into downtrends, and old support becomes the new resistance. Buying dips stops working. Bulls end up getting
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10 Signs the Market Is Just Not That Into You
Once we have a proven system, our system’s profitability is not based on our personal ability to trade it. The market environment of trending, range bound, or volatile is what makes our method make money or lose money. Sometimes, we have a perfectly good system and lose money because our method is not viable. A
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Book Review: Stocks on the Move
Andreas Clenow’s new book takes the reader through creating a mechanical trend following system using momentum ranking for stocks in the S&P 500 index. This is an outstanding trading book because it shows the reader year by year performance, and explains the emotions that a trader goes through during drawdowns in trading capital. Mr.
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10 Fast Facts on the $SPY Chart: 9/20/15
The chart had a lot of mixed signals last week without many actionable signals. The Fed decision to keep rates unchanged was a sell the news event. $SPY has settled back into a trading range after failing to breakout on the Fed decision. Two back-to-back shooting star candlesticks show that higher prices were sold into
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Best Trading Articles: Week 9/19/15
How to Embrace Your Fear in Trading: The Trading Intelligentsia Has it Wrong –via @PaulJSingh Emotional Volatility and Emotional Volatility of Volatility –via @steenbab S&P 500 Triangle Pattern Gets At Market Selloff Psychology –via @SeeItMarket Advanced Stop Loss Guide –via @Tradeciety We’re Living Through the Greatest
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Top Trading Tweets: week 9/18/15
Fantastic day for the http://t.co/2GANaPQljj "Random Narrative Generator," here's my suggestion cc @StockCats pic.twitter.com/a150zdrwKR — Brattle St. Capital (@BrattleStCap) September 17, 2015 So the Fed will never hike until every place in the world has entered economic utopia. Noted — zerohedge (@zerohedge) September 17, 2015 We’ll be at 100% employment and 0% inflation and nobody
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The 8 Best Kindle Trading Books for $2.99
Buy Signals Sell Signals:Strategic Stock Market Entries and Exits Moving Averages 101: Incredible Signals That Will Make You Money in the Stock Market Trading Habits: 39 of the World’s Most Powerful Stock Market Rules New Trader 101: The Fastest Way to Grow Wealth in the Stock Market Calm Trader: Win in the Stock Market without
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10 Fast Facts About the $QQQ Chart: 9/16/15
The $QQQ chart has formed an ascending triangle chart pattern. $QQQ closed over the 200 day moving average. $QQQ broke out of an 18 day trading range today. This chart has made higher lows for 5 straight days. This chart has made higher highs for 3 straight days. The Fed meeting will likely provide a
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10 Reasons Most Traders Are Not Profitable
Many new traders turn into bitter traders because they lose a lot of money. It’s a fact that the majority of active traders don’t make it and leave the market. Many investors become disillusioned with buy and hold drawdowns and bear markets that destroy their capital. A trader has to not only overcome slippage and
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The $QQQ Ascending Chart Pattern Signals
$QQQ is currently in an ascending triangle chart pattern. Regardless of where they form, ascending triangles are usually bullish patterns that indicate accumulation. Even though the price can’t rise past the 200 day resistance level, the reaction lows continue to rise. It is these higher lows that indicate increased buying pressure and give the ascending
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$SPY Chart Triangle Signals: 9/13/15
The $SPY downtrend stopped after the bottom 3 weeks ago, and $SPY has gone back to a range bound market. The $SPY chart is currently forming a symmetrical triangle chart pattern. There have been 15 days of lower highs and lower lows showing a range compression of prices. Which trend line we break first will
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