10 Times Traders Lose Money
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What I Look For in a Trading Methodology
A trading system with big wins and small losses is actually easier to be profitable with than a high winning percentage system. It allows the trader to capture a trend for big wins when the opportunity presents itself. Well positioned stop losses and the use of trailing stops can create an asymmetric trading
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The Twelve Days Of Central Banking Christmas
A Guest Post by Andrew Derbyshire: The Twelve Days Of Central Banking Christmas On The Twelve Days of Christmas my Central Banker sent to me.. Twelve Yellen Speeches Eleven Rate Predictions Ten Faulty Volkswagen’s Nine Analyst Upgrades Eight Rounds Of Printing Seven Shorts On Oil Six Longs On Go Pro Fiiive Gold-en Crosses Four
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Best 25 Traders to Follow on Twitter 2015
The 2015 winner for best trader on twitter is NorthmanTrader with 339 votes! Well done! Here are the results from the best trader on twitter poll I conducted this year. A lot of familiar names that received hundreds of votes and some new faces that have made a market on financial twitter over the past
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Down is Up and Up is Down: $SPY Chart
In 2015 momentum buy signals have failed consistently. The indexes have stayed inside a tight range. The stock market hasn’t given up profits this year to buy and hold investors or trend followers. 2015 is a range-bound market not giving bulls or bears a trend that they could trade for more than a week. The
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My Favorite Trading Articles Week: 12/12/15
Technical_Charts_via_NorthmanTrader Assad’s Rules of Trading Nassim Taleb vs. Victor Niederhoffer Stock Trading 101: Learn to Manage Risk with Position Sizing The Definitive Guide to Trading Pullbacks and Breakouts
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Top Trading Tweets of the Week: 12/11/15
Oil still plunging. Look for a bottom around $0.02 Worth a punt long there with a tight stop — Tom Dante (@Trader_Dante) December 10, 2015 Know that sometimes you did nothing wrong, the trade was good, your mindset was good but you got a bad beat. End of. — Tom Dante (@Trader_Dante) December 6, 2015
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Book Review: Momo Traders
This book is in the Market Wizard format as the author interviews successful and profitable traders at many stages of their journey. Most traders in the book trade six figure accounts and some are millionaires. Many of them trade penny stocks, but are sensitive to the volume and understand the dangers involved in that market,
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Take the Guesswork out of Trading with this Technique
This is a GUEST POST by Steve LeMoine @Turtle_Follower One of the biggest steps I took in becoming a more robust trader was learning how to deal with uncertainty. I wrote a post about something I call the Uncertainty Principle which I urge you to check out…after reading this post of course. In a nutshell
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10 $SPY Chart Facts 12/6/15
Very strong bullish daily candlestick on Friday that overtook the Thursday high of day. A bullish candlestick that large leads to higher prices the majority of the time. Friday bounced strongly off the 200 day support Friday. The 200 day has gone flat but it is bullishly constructive to be above it. The 50 day
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My Favorite Trading Articles: Week 12/5/15
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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Top Trading Tweets of the Week: 12/4/15
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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Candidates For Most Helpful Trader on Twitter Poll 2015
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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A Big Obstacle for Traders: Time
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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7 Bullish Facts about the $FB Chart
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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Two China Stocks Break Out on Massive Volume
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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10 Bull Facts about the $SPY Chart 11/29/15
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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Our Latest Books on Amazon
These are are our latest titles available on Amazon. All of our eBooks are $2.99. You can pick up a hard copy of our books for $6.99, also on Amazon.
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My 5 Favorite Trading Articles: Week 11/28/15
Why Investors Should Be Careful Using Market Divergence Signals Trading Psychology of a Systematic Approach Trading Momentum Trends How to perform a multiple time-frame analysis step by step and avoid all the mistakes Trading vs. Long-Term Value Investing
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