Posts Tagged ‘Strategy-Session’
Stock Scanning to Make Opportunity Out of the Market’s Traps
Here’s the beginning of a correspondence with Dr. Brett Steenbarger who wisely suggested that the exchange would make for a good blog post. That’s why he’s the PhD. From the Desk of Trade Ideas March 24, 2010 Dear Brett, I just read your quick post regarding the “traps” the market can play on intraday traders…
Read MoreStock Scanner Settings in a Market Going Nowhere
What does one do when it looks like nothing is happening? Traders often find themselves frustrated at times when seemingly there is nothing going on. This is a time that separates the professionals from the amateur traders. Professionals know first of all that there is no need to push it. Getting frustrated mentally only hurts…
Read MoreStock Scanner Setting to Catch the Trend-line Break
The Trade-Ideas stock scanner can not only show you events that are happening now that have implications for short term day trading, it is also used to find trading patterns for longer term investing or swing trading. One of the most powerful trading set ups is a trend-line break either up or down. What we…
Read MoreSteenbarger Inspired Strategy: Trade the Transitions
Great strategies align themselves with vetted and observable themes in the market. Strategy comes from taking a stand based on what you perceive are demonstrative behaviors in the recent market and then submitting that position to the market’s cross examination – you’ll come out smelling like a rose or its fertilizer. The nice thing with…
Read MoreFibonacci Long 1st 30 Minutes = 88% Odds in Your Favor: TASC Trader’s Tip September
Traders’ Tips: September Issue “Now, you listen to me! I want it reopened right now. Get those brokers back in here! Turn those machines back on!” Mortimer Duke, Trading Places (1983) This month’s Traders’ Tips concerns pivot points. While researching an appropriate strategy for this month, we discovered a stock trading strategy based, in part,…
Read More200 Day SMA Good Support for a Swing Trade: August TAS&C Traders’ Tips
Traders’ Tips August Issue “It’s not being wrong that kills you, it’s staying wrong that kills you.” Jeff Macke, Trader For this month’s Traders’ Tips, we offer a stock trading strategy based, in part, on the position of a stock near its 200 day Moving Average. Specifically this strategy discovers that in today’s market the…
Read MoreTrailing Resistance & Support Stops: TAS&C July Traders’ Tips
Traders’ Tips July Issue of Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities “Eventually, luck runs out; skill does not.” Scalper68 (AlexD) In this month’s Traders’ Tips, Sylvain Vervoort offers a 3rd trailing stop method, called a trailing resistance & support stop, which evaluates price movements or ‘turning points’. This 3rd trailing stop method most closely resembles…
Read MoreThis Strategy’s Winners Are 5x Greater Than Its Losers – Explanation:
I gave a solid presentation to traders online in a DTI chat room this afternoon. DTI offers educational services across all instruments but specialize in equities, commodities, and futures. They are lead by the talented Tom Busby and Jeanette Sims. The format I used involved soliciting requests for favorite chart patterns ahead of my talk…
Read MoreVWAP Mashup of the Daily Trading Coach and Trade-Ideas
A Strategy-Session post. The Daily Trading Coach Dr. Brett Steenbarger is a trader’s coach. As essential as his experience getting the best performance out of traders is the way in which he conveys his wisdom in plain language – judge for yourself in his latest (his third) book on improving trader performance and decision making, The…
Read MoreMorning Prep and Trades Show How I Got Ready Today
I get ready for the day, trying to figure out a market theme that will bias my trading direction for the session and thanks to Twitter/StockTwits, I get an insightful nugget from Brian Shannon of Alphatrends: “When 200 DMAs are DECLINING, rallies typically DO NOT hold, especially when they are advertised so strongly in media,…
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