In the capital markets money flows in these continual directions… Money flows from those that do not know how to manage risk to those that do. Profits flows from those who fight trends to those who follow them. Money flows from those who buy option contracts that have terrible odds of being profitable to […]

System What type of trader will I be? Swing, trend trader, trend follower, day trader, Elliot Wave, Fibonacci, CAN SLIM, option trader, another, or a combination? What time frame will I be trading on? What are my trading rules? What signals my entry? What will signal my exit? Do I use a trailing stop or

Longer term uptrend still very healthy and intact, long term trend followers have been able to let long equity positions run for over a year now. Short term we are still a little overbought here and it would be healthy for a retracement to the 21 day or 50 day or some base building in

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                            A great conversation broke out in my trading group over the past few days when one member asked: “I have a question for some of you guys….right now I’m a part time trader with a full time job. I’d love to be

When a new trader is in the process of building their capital for a trading account there are a few financial mistakes that they make that can really keep them from having the ability to ever build the necessary trading account to even be able to trade with in the first place. Here are some

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The long term up trend and bull market is still very healthy and intact no doubt. Short term trend traders are highly likely to get a better entry point if they exit here and wait for a pull back to near term support levels or a dip. The 70 RSI has been resistance all year

3.75% max total exposure helps with limiting risk in cases of positive correlations… so my rule is 1% max per asset, 3.75% max total. — Trade Like a Casino (@TradeLikeCasino) December 22, 2013 Change with changing conditions. There's no right or wrong, only profit or loss. — Peter Ghostine (@PeterGhostine) December 23, 2013 Bull Markets

                      New traders make the mistake of being biased to current market conditions and do not consider that it is only a phase, bull markets, bear markets, and range bound markets are a cycle that plays out over and over. From trending and non-trending to

  The 50 day sma bounce that most traders expected did happen Wednesday and it was fast and furious moving from the near term support back to resistance in a manner of hours. There really was no choice but to go long with that massive reversal candlestick, the bulls won. We now have two days

                    The Top Ten Skills of Profitable Traders They Develop robust systems using principles and patterns that work and are based on historical back testing. They Write a trading plan that fits their personality and  results in profitability. They have the discipline and self control to