The principles that are used with A.A. can be applied to help traders who are struggling. These principles can help traders avoid falling back into the habits that have prevented them from reaching their goals: Failure to prepare for their trading day (or career) Not sticking to their trading plan... Read more… read more
We all have a logical, thinking being and an emotion based being automatically behaving inside of us. They are important and are in operation at the same time but just like in trading, the balance of power is not always equal. When these parts of ourselves are in balance, much... Read more… read more
If you’ve ever seen the movie “Trading Places”, you’ve seen how crazy it can be trading in the pits. A lot of yelling, screaming, and hand gestures with everyone trying to get the price they’ve been waiting for. The modern trader of today uses trading charts to monitor price but... Read more… read more
Trading chart patterns has been a swing and day trading approach for decades of chart pattern traders. Edwards and Magee helped bring this form of chart analysis into the public eye and it’s been a popular approach ever since. Finding a chart pattern can be done through scanners or manually but... Read more… read more
When traders decide to start day trading for a living, there are a few choices that are faced including: How much money they need to start day trading The markets they will day trade What trading strategy they will use The most important choice when people decide to make trading... Read more… read more
The Stochastic Oscillator is a momentum indicator that is designed to give you an objective measure of the momentum in your trading instrument. It’s bounded by the numbers 0 and 100 and will oscillate between those two areas. One area you want to be clear on is that because the... Read more… read more
Designing a trading strategy is tough work and that is if we include only technical factors as opposed to adding in fundamentals and seasonal cycles. There are many variables to keep in mind when undertaking the design of your own strategy: Which indicators will you use? What price points will... Read more… read more
Every market that you trade will constantly shift from balance to imbalance, consolidation ranges to directional movement looking for higher or lower price points. The most relevant and new information we have about the possible acceptance of price is by comparing the open and the market’s reaction to yesterday’s price... Read more… read more
The Parabolic Sar (stop and reverse indicator) by J. Welles Wilder, is a trading indicator used in markets with a strong trend to determine buy and sell signals for your chosen trading instrument. The “stop and reverse” feature indicates that the Parabolic Sar is an indicator that was designed to... Read more… read more
The Keltner Channel is a volatility based trading indicator that uses two bands and the average true range to set the channel distance below and above an exponential moving average, generally 20 period EMA. You use the Keltner Channel to determine when a market has stretched too far from the moving average –... Read more… read more
Fibonacci levels are just a tool and like any tool and any type of trading system, the usefulness depends on the user and the rules they follow in their application. You have probably heard that the main knock of Fibonacci levels is: “place a bunch of Fibonacci retracements and extensions on... Read more… read more
The auction in any market is straightforward: There are two types of market participant- buyers and sellers The degree to which these buyers and sellers are motivated by current price or market behavior Yes, there are lots of nuances to complicate things but the fundamentally important factors are straight forward.... Read more… read more
Whenever you take a trade, you should be looking to profit from certain market behavior: a reaction to a level market momentum break out trailing your stop looking for bigger gains. Prices set the limits of our risk and potential profits, but at what point does the market behavior no... Read more… read more
