Watch our free informational webinar with Larry Connors to learn about the TradingMarkets 2014 Advanced Swing Trading Summit. The 2014 Advanced Swing Trading Summit, which will be conducted on April 5, will be your final opportunity to learn how to swing trade, directly from Larry Connors, using a professional, systematic, data-driven approach to trading that… [Read More]
10 Considerations When Selecting an Online Broker
Whether you’re opening a new trading account or are just curious about what other brokers may provide, it’s always a good idea to take these core considerations into account when selecting an online broker.
How to Swing Trade S&P 500 Stocks with ConnorsRSI
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]
4 Keys to Understanding the Basis of Successful Swing Trading
Beyond the benefits of flexibility and maneuverability, swing trading is advantageous because it allows you to trade the market regardless of whether it’s up, down, or even sideways. The TradingMarkets Swing Trading College is a comprehensive training program designed to teach you the core competencies involved with high-probability swing trading, and to provide you with… [Read More]
Learn How To Successfully Trade with the New ConnorsRSI Indicator
While there is a wide assortment of products and books on swing trading purporting to be true swing trading primers, in reality they are filled with vague concepts on trading pullbacks and none teach you exactly how, when, and when to enter and exit your positions. The Swing Trading College is specifically designed to arm… [Read More]
Take Advantage of the Sell-Off with Leveraged ETFs
Yesterday I wrote ”A healthy 1-2 day global sell-off is what the market needs right here and it will then provide some very good leveraged ETF buy set-ups heading into the weekend.” This is in fact what happened and please see the Leveraged ETF section for today’s buying opportunities. Have a great weekend! Receive high… [Read More]
Essential Skills for Swing Traders: Part 3
We’re all aware that there are a myriad of ways to approach identifying pullbacks in the market, from simply cherry-picking securities to using complex variations of multiple indicators. We rigorously test and retest to create quantified pullback trading strategies that produce maximum consistency and accuracy. One of the factors we prioritize is the ‘quality’ of… [Read More]
How to Successfully Swing Trade – Part 2: Buying on Pullbacks
Now that we’ve covered the initial basics of what swing trading is, and covered why buying above the 200-day moving average is so important, we can move forward to another core rule of successful swing trading: buying on pullbacks. To briefly summarize – a pullback refers to a market closing lower than it did the… [Read More]
How to Successfully Swing Trade – Part 1
One of the fundamental ideas we base our research around is the relatively static nature of the ‘human factor’, or more simply that human behavior rarely changes. What changes are the markets, and we are buying and selling at extreme moments of either fear (we’re buying) or greed (we’re selling). There are two extremes on… [Read More]
Essential Skills for Swing Traders: Part 2
Throughout the years of research and development we’ve put behind our quantified trading strategies, one stands out singularly for its consistent accuracy. The S&P 500 Selective strategy has regularly indicated high-potential value trading opportunities both in real-world trading and throughout our extensive historical back-testing. This systematic trading strategy pinpoints trading opportunities for buying and selling… [Read More]