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The Mechanics of Stock Price Movements
Contrary to popular belief by the majority of the general population and even investors and traders stocks are not tied to their fundamental values or even the companies that sold the shares to raise capital. Stock prices are tied to simply what the current buyer and seller in the market is willing to exchange ownership
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How New Traders Can Limit Their Pain
Trading is not all fun and games. We do not make money on every trade. It is not like other careers or jobs where you work and then get paid. Our pursuit is more like the life of an entrepreneur. Our idea may work or it may not. The
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My Favorite Indicator
Do you use moving averages in your trading? If not, you are missing one of the very best indicators. Moving averages are powerful because they give traders a view of the market’s or stock’s trend in the moment. Including its volatility, along with possible
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10 Ways to Labor Towards Trading Success
On this Labor Day when many are off work for a paid holiday I am working, looking at charts, planning, thinking and reading. Pondering what Tuesday trading may bring. Trading is NOT the path to easy money nor free money. Trading is work and a profession like any other, traders
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Three Charts: Here is What I See
Here are my thoughts on the top three stocks on my watch list. But be aware I trade a very fast time frame and could change my opinion at the open Tuesday if prices move strongly through support or resistance that changes what I think the stock
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If Babe Ruth was a Trader….
While Babe Ruth was not a trader he was the greatest home run hitter to ever play baseball for many, many years until Hank Aaron finally beat his record. I think it is appropriate to look at Babe Ruth quotes for trading because many of the most profitable traders of
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The 10 Steps to Trading With Mojo
You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.” -Babe Ruth You can read trading books until you are blurry-eyed, you can spend thousands of dollars on seminars, you can try to get successful traders to give you the secret sauce of trading and the holy grail. But, in the end it is simply
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Do You Trade like Captain Kirk or Mr. Spock?
Discretionary Traders Vs Systematic Traders In the classic Star Trek movies and television show Captain Kirk believed in his abilities to make the best decisions in the circumstances he found himself in. Mr. Spock contrasted against Kirk’s leadership style by using logic and reason along with probabilities of success to make the best
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Trading Success: How bad do you want it?
Do you want trading success bad enough to read one hundred quality trading books? Do you want it bad enough to review charts for hours? EVERY day? Do you want it bad enough to find the right mentor to help you in your trading quest? Will you attend the right seminars if you need to?
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3 Ways to Lose Money when you are Right, but your Trading is Wrong
Apple is at $610 you believe it will go to $680 in a month, instead of buying at $610 you want to buy on a pullback to $600, the pull back never comes and you just watch it go to $680 with no position. Apple is at $675 and you
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Trader: Meet Thy Judge
If you are a longer term trend follower and there is a long term trend, then you make money. If you are a shorter term trend follower and their is a trend in your trade you make money. Swing traders make money in range bound markets. Value investors make
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Stock Options: 10 Ways to Move From Peril to Profits
Fish see the bait, but not the hook; men see the profit, but not the peril. Chinese proverb. Stock options are not lottery tickets, chips in a casino, or a path to easy street. They are tools for the transference of risk from one person to the other. When trading options you must understand where
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10 Reasons Why Apple $700 may be Inevitable
[hr_invisible] Apple: For now still the same old monster stock story with a few added chapters. With Apple proving in court that Android is a copy cat and Samsung being told they must pay $1 billion in patent infringements to Apple , the stock shot up to all time highs in the post market
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K.I.S.S. Principle for Traders
“There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.” ~Warren Buffett “The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.” -Warren Buffett The biggest thing that trips up many new traders and even more experienced and
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Weekly Options: 5 Things to Know
Weekly options are very powerful tools in the hands of a trader that understands them but can do serious damage in the account of a trader that uses them to gamble. Weekly options can be great trading tools if the position size is right and they are used inside of a quantifiable trading system that is
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Ten Rules for Trading Pocket Pivots
This interview with master trader Chris Kacher first appeared in Your Trading Edge magazine. Like his colleague Gil Morales, Chris is a protégé of William O’Neil, the legendary investor and author of ‘How to Make Money in Stocks’. Along with Morales, Chris is one of the few to have traded O’Neil’s own funds as an
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Why the Cup & Handle Chart Pattern Works
While my trading is more following capital flows based on trends that I measure with key moving averages there is one chart pattern that I find very useful and that has high probabilities of success. The cup and handle pattern is a bullish continuation formation, it is one of the newer chart formations and
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10 Ways I Trade With the Winning 10%
The strange thing about trading is the vast majority of traders lose money. Most studies put it at 90% as the amount of traders that are unprofitable in the long term. How can this be? The majority of traders are trading on emotions and predictions instead of what
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