This is a guest post by Helyn Bolanis: Founder,CEO,& Chief Investment Officer @ParlanFinancial Corp. You Don’t have to be an Investment Geek to Make Money with this Idea Ever wonder why a stock or the market just takes off like a rocket, with no apparent rhyme or reason? Me too. Sometimes you get why […]
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$TSLA closed below the 200 day moving average. This is a key dividing line between an long term up trend ending and a down trend beginning. In the intermediate time frame the 50 day line itself is at a downward curve. The RSI gives $TSLA plenty of room for more downside. Stocks do not
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All time highs are bullish. Everyone that has every bought the S&P 500 index has a profit, or is very close to one. At these levels, almost no stop losses are being hit; only profit taking puts pressure on the market. The long term up trend is in place with years of higher
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The bears will finally have their wish come true today. The market will close early. — Jon Boorman, CMT (@JBoorman) November 28, 2014 After "excluding items" I didn't really overeat at Thanksgiving. Adjusted EBITDA = Eating Before Ice cream, Turkey, Dressing & Apple pie. — Tren Griffin (@trengriffin) November 28, 2014 There's a longer line
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There is a story in the book Anti-Fragile of a turkey that is fed for 1,000 days by a butcher, and everyday, confirms to the turkey and the turkey’s economics department and the turkey’s risk management department and the turkey’s analytical department that the butcher loves turkeys, and every day brings more confidence to the
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There are many simple principles that can make all the difference between allowing your money to grow or staying broke. Here is a very simple and quick top ten list that if followed with discipline can make a huge difference in a person’s life. Simple but very difficult for most people to follow consistently over
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Subjective: Based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes, or opinions. Proceeding from or taking place in a person’s mind rather than the external world. Subjective traders are intertwined with their trades. They generally enter out of greed and exit based on fear. They believe in their opinions more than the actual price action. They
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Unfortunately, the retail trading world is full of false promises. No other industry has as many snake oil salesmen, promising to make traders rich for a fee. The more a newsletter writer or trading system seller tells you how easy trading is, the more cautious you should be. Consistently profitable trading requires a
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The long and short term up trends in the market are both in place. This market has gone parabolic on a break above the 70 RSI. This is a rare outlier event to run so far with no pullback. This is currently a market for trend followers and momentum traders. Short signals have failed
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“The answer to the question, What’s the trend? is the question What’s your timeframe?” –Richard Weissman One of the biggest misunderstandings among traders is the time frame on which they trade. A day trader can believe a stock is going down and be bearish on the intra-day chart, while a longterm stock picker is
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Trade #1 I shorted $IWM three days ago by buying $TZA at $13.02 when $IWM was near the 70 RSI on the daily chart. My stop loss was to exit if $IWM closed above the 72 RSI. My trailing stop is to stay short unless $IWM closes above the previous day’s high. There is
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chart courtesy of stockcharts.com The long term up trend is still in place. All indexes are with-in striking distance of all time highs which remains bullish. $SPY $QQQ $IWM $DIA With all stock indexes pushing against the 70 RSI on the daily chart the potential upside is very limited putting the odds on limited momentum
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