Posts Tagged ‘strategy’
Steenbarger 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 MoreTrade-Ideas: Why Won’t You Make Me Rich?
We receive on a regular basis from individuals the comments, demands, requests, supplications, and sometimes the pleas for the keys to making them great wealth. A recent message seemed breathless in its desire, “Basically What i need is a collaboration…and a system trading platform based on historical data……What time to trade….how many….what amount per trade…and…
Read MoreZag vs Zig on Relative Strength & This Stock Pattern Strategy Will Reward You
Below is the original Trader’s Tips article submitted for the just released April issue of Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities TRADERS’ TIPS April Issue “Your emotions are often a reverse indicator of what you ought to be doing.” John F. Hindelong For this month’s Traders’ Tips, we offer a stock trading strategy based, in…
Read MoreTry This Swing Strategy: Reversed MACD Crossover System
Below is the original Trader’s Tips article submitted for the just released February issue of Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities TRADERS’ TIPS March Issue “I measure what’s going on, and I adopt to it. I try to get my ego out of the way. The market is smarter than I am so I bend.”…
Read MoreHow to Short $BAC All Over Again. Watch History Repeat.
The headlines sound an omnious alarm: “Bank of America tumbles on nationalization worries” (Reuters, February 4, 2009) BAC continues to take it on the chin: teetering on bankruptcy, government bail out yada yada yada. If you shorted this ride – congratulations. But is the ride over? Maybe there is more opportunity yet to find in…
Read MoreTry the Market’s Lunch Special: SHORT – Lunch Time Fade Strategy
Below is the original Trader’s Tips article submitted for the just released February issue of Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities TRADERS’ TIPS February Issue “There is always plenty of capital for those who can create practical plans for using it.” Napoleon Hill (Author, Think and Grow Rich, 1883 – 1970) For this month’s Traders’ Tips,…
Read MoreStrategy-Session: 2 Patterns You Want to See As They Happen
I mentioned in yesterday’s post that a bunch of traders gathered online to see and hear my present how Trade-Ideas PRO can model any pattern. They let me have it. I took almost 20 descriptions 30 minutes before the presentation began and picked 3 to model and walk everyone through the process of modeling…
Read MoreFarley and Twitter Combine to Find My Next Great Trade
A Scan that Finds Stocks Resisting the Market Downtrend – Stick Above the 200 MA Already my post earlier this week, How Twitter Improves My Trades, continues to evolve and provide further lessons. Twitter Apps to Consider There’s a growing list of applications that build off of the Twitter data feed of wit, prose, commentary of…
Read MoreYour Brain’s the Grail. How to Make It Holy
Ok. Let’s do something really crazy. I’ve something big to confess. I’ve been hiding it for months because I don’t want the headlines, I don’t want our servers to crash, I don’t even want the private island and the jet to take me there. But now, I can’t hold it in any longer, so here…
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