What is Pair Trading? Pair trading is the strategy of trading two securities simultaneously, one long and one short. These trades combined constitute a pair. Pair Trading was developed as a strategy that seeks to generate significant and consistent returns while controlling risk by maintaining a low correlation to broader market averages. Pair Trading is… [Read More]
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5 Steps for Trading Low-Priced Stocks Without a Broker
In the present age of economic instability, having multiple sources of income is the only way by which you can ensure future financial security. Alongside earning from service wages, investment is one of the most convenient ways to make your capital grow. However, investment is not always easy to pursue and in a time of… [Read More]
Top 5 Popular Trading Strategies
This article will show you some of the most common trading strategies and also how you can analyze the pros and cons of each one to decide the best one for your personal trading style. The top five strategies that we will cover are as follows: Breakouts Breakouts are one of the most common techniques… [Read More]
How the Intra-Day Momentum Method can Help You Make Better Trading Decisions
The Intra-day Momentum Method was designed to help determine the best way to trade a particular stock / ETF, whether it is trend-following or reversion to the mean, in connection with a low-to-mid frequency intra-day trade. In order to determine which method had worked best over time, I created an algorithm that would find a… [Read More]
7 Ways to Determine What Stocks To Buy And When
In a previous article I discussed the common mistakes made in retirements and the difference in a trade versus an investment. Let’s talk about the most common question I get. “What should I buy and when should I buy it?” Okay, technically speaking, it’s two questions; but stay with me though. The answer for you… [Read More]
How to Avoid the 3 Most Common Causes of Trading Failure
I have served as a trading coach and advisor to traders, investors and portfolio managers for over twelve years. During that time I have worked with several hundred traders. Whenever I work with individual traders, whether they are newbies or experienced professionals, I put them through a trading profile inventory I developed. The results of… [Read More]
How to Trade Diagonal Option Spreads
The diagonal option spread offers a great compromise between the vertical spread and the horizontal spread. It incorporates the best features of each while avoiding some of the drawbacks of each. Let’s briefly review the vertical and horizontal spreads including the shortcomings of each. For the discussion here, we will consider only debit spreads. VERTICAL… [Read More]
Determining Daily Intra-Day Direction – Is it possible?
Successful speculation starts with observation. Instead of looking at charts, I have designed a methodology for determining intra-day direction based on ‘measured moves’ and created applications to answer my questions regarding trade-able tendencies and to assist in my research. The first thought that comes to mind, when considering the question – “Is it possible to… [Read More]
3 Dos and Don’ts Most Traders Learn the Hard Way from Market Wizard Mark Minervini
The following article is an excerpt from Trade Like a Stock Market Wizard: How to Achieve Super Performance in Stocks in Any Market by Mark Minervini with permission from McGraw Hill Publishing. How to Handle a Losing Streak A losing streak usually means it’s time for an assessment. If you find yourself getting stopped out… [Read More]
8 Rules That Simplify Futures Trading
I never knew where my first job on the trading floor was going to lead me. It started as a runner in the grain room at the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) making $70 bucks a week. It then took me into the bonds where I got to know Tom Bladwin who turned $15,000 into… [Read More]
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