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Read a Sample Chapter of ‘Trading Stocks and Options with Moving Averages’

December 2, 2013 by TradingMarkets Editors

Indicators are not always what they appear to be. Moving Averages are widely used as a trend-following tool. In many of the trading strategies that we have developed over the years, the 200-day moving average is used to identify the direction of the trend. We have found that taking buy signals only when the price…    [Read More] 

Filed Under: Connors Research, ConnorsRSI, Promos, Recent Tagged With: Featured, First Chapter

How to Swing Trade S&P 500 Stocks with ConnorsRSI

November 1, 2013 by TradingMarkets Editors

With so much of the money invested in the U.S. being driven by money managers and their search for quality investments for pension funds, it’s no wonder that the majority choose to allocate their capital in the S&P 500. With this glut of cash regularly flowing into what they feel are value-buying opportunities as investments,…    [Read More] 

Filed Under: Connors Research, ConnorsRSI, Promos, Recent Tagged With: First Chapter, momentum trading, S&P 500, Swing Trading

Read an Excerpt from Bollinger Bands® Trading Strategies That Work

October 14, 2013 by TradingMarkets Editors

Bollinger Bands are a technical analysis tool and volatility indicator developed by John Bollinger in the 1980s that measures deviations in price relative to previous trades.  There are bands that are positioned above and below a moving average.  When volatility increases, the bands widen and when the volatility decreases, the bands become narrower. Read the…    [Read More] 

Filed Under: Connors Research, Education, ETFs, Promos, Recent, Short Term Trading, Volatility Tagged With: Bollinger Bands, First Chapter, Stocks

How to Scale Into your Trading Positions

August 7, 2013 by Joshua Glasgall

Traders can find the optimal levels to scale into their positions by using the ConnorsRSI indicator, yielding them lower average purchase prices and higher overall gains on their trades. ETF Scale-In Trading includes more than 20 variations of this high probability strategy that have shown winning trade rates of over 92.8% throughout our historical back-testing….    [Read More] 

Filed Under: Connors Research, ConnorsRSI, ETFs, Recent Tagged With: Featured, First Chapter, scale-in to ETFs

A Quick Primer on Trading Options

July 30, 2013 by Joshua Glasgall

The popularity of trading options has continued to boom in recent years, with more and more individual traders looking to take advantage of the gains options trading can offer without having to risk nearly as much capital as with other securities. The Connors Research team has developed a strategy designed to better control the risk…    [Read More] 

Filed Under: Connors Research, Options Tagged With: ConnorsRSI, Featured, First Chapter, Options trading

New Guidebook Reveals Short Selling Strategy That has Held Up Since 2001

June 28, 2013 by Joshua Glasgall

The latest addition to the Connors Research Strategy Series of quantified guidebooks details a core short selling strategy for identifying overpriced stocks throughout varying market conditions. Short Selling Stocks with ConnorsRSI contains over 20 different variations of this versatile strategy –  all with winning trade rates over 75% – and all structured around the exact…    [Read More] 

Filed Under: Connors Research, ConnorsRSI, Recent Tagged With: ConnorsRSI, Featured, First Chapter, how to short sell, short selling, shorting stocks, Stocks

A Brief History Behind Gap Trading

February 19, 2013 by Larry Connors

Excerpted from How to Trade High Probability Stock Gaps — 2nd Edition: We wrote this How To Trade High Probability Stock Gaps Guidebook shortly after we completed our ETF Gap Trading – A Definitive Guide. If you already own ETF Gap Trading – A Definitive Guide, you will see here that trading gaps on stocks…    [Read More] 

Filed Under: Short Term Trading Tagged With: First Chapter, Stocks, Swing Trading

Introduction to Volatility Trading

October 17, 2012 by Larry Connors

Excerpted from The VXX Trend Following Strategy: For many years, professional traders have built strategies around the concepts of buying and selling volatility in the market. Historically, this meant buying options when implied volatility was perceived to be “low” (and therefore option prices were relatively low as well) and selling options when implied volatility and…    [Read More] 

Filed Under: Connors Research, Options, Volatility Tagged With: First Chapter

Read the First Chapter of “How Markets Really Work – 2nd Edition”

April 11, 2012 by Joshua Glasgall

Click here to read the first chapter from the updated 2nd Edition of How Markets Really Work by Larry Connors and Cesar Alvarez.

Filed Under: Education, Recent Tagged With: Cesar Alvarez, First Chapter, How Markets Really Work

Buy The Fear, Sell The Greed

Buy The Fear, Sell The Greed

Swing Trading College

New Book From Larry Connors and Chris Cain, CMT – "The Alpha Formula; High Powered Strategies to Beat The Market With Less Risk"

We’re excited to announce the release of a new investment book written by Larry Connors and Chris Cain, CMT. The book, “The Alpha Formula; High Powered Strategies to Beat The Market With Less Risk “ combines… Hedge fund legend Ray Dalio’s brilliant insight into combining uncorrelated strategies… With new, minimally correlated, quantified, systematic strategies to trade… [Read More]

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Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 57): 7 Real-World Reasons Why Short Strategies Should Be Included In Your Portfolio

In our new book, The Alpha Formula – High Powered Strategies to Beat the Market with Less Risk, we show the benefits of including short-strategies in your portfolio. As a reminder, building portfolios should be based on First Principles – otherwise known as truths. These truths are: Markets Go Up Market Go Down Markets Go… [Read More]

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