The Turtle Soup trading strategy is based on the breakout trading system of the Turtles. The difference is that we want the breakout to fail when using the Turtle Soup strategy. The story of the Turtle Traders is a popular one and shows that people who have no prior financial... Read more… read more
The average directional index, ADX for short, is a technical indicator that measures the strength of a trend. Given that most instruments spend more time in a consolidated environment, it is helpful to know if your market of choice has any life to it. There is nothing more frustrating that... Read more… read more
Some of the best chart patterns to trade, such as bull flags, are simple and that includes the “anti” pattern by Linda Raschke. The anti pattern takes into account both a pullback and a momentum move that setups up the pullback. As described in my article about trading pullbacks, we... Read more… read more
Bollinger Bands are a popular trading indicator that was introduced to the trading world by John Bollinger in 1983. The visual nature of the Bollinger Bands makes it simple for a trader to see if price has extended far from the average security price. This tells a trader if the... Read more… read more
The best way to answer the question “what are Renko charts”, is to describe them as fixed sized bricks that plot on your chart in relation to price movement. They are very different from the common bar chart, Japanese candlestick charts, or Heiken Ashi charts as Renko charts (Renko bricks)... Read more… read more
Traders spend a lot of time back testing trading strategies, systems, and researching news events that are related to the market. The outside work such as that is important but many don’t spend nearly enough time working on themselves. More importantly, working on ensuring they believe in themselves. If you... Read more… read more
Trading is accessible to anybody with internet, money, and a computer any time during the day. That is one thing that lures people to trading for a living because your schedule can be what you choose. Once they have put together a trading plan and back-tested their trading strategy, they... Read more… read more
There are many trading articles on this blog that can help you virtually build your own trading strategy from. From topics about moving averages and price action trading, to stop loss placements and trading journals, you can learn to trade the markets and make a living. I wanted to go... Read more… read more
Heikin Ashi charts may not be as popular as bar charts and traditional candlesticks but for traders who use them, they don’t care how popular they are. Charts generally calculate the high, low, open, and close which makes the main difference between (HA) Heikin Ashi and other charting types, being the... Read more… read more
Day trading futures attracts many types of people that share one thing in common: they want to be successful at day trading. When the drive to succeed is strong and armed with a winning trading strategy, why do so many fail? What is the difference between the traders that succeed... Read more… read more
Moving averages are a technical analysis tool that have been a staple of traders for decades. There are many types of moving averages that all use different formulas and the easiest one to understand is the simple moving average – the SMA. What Is The Simple Moving Average Indicator... Read more… read more
Overthinking and subjectivity can be the downfall of many traders. Searching too hard for a trade or having flexible rules for determining market state is not the road to disciplined and consistency in trading. When I started trading, I had a tendency to over think many things. “If in doubt... Read more… read more
