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General Trading Articles |
Written by Dr. Van K Tharp |
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The first variable in the snow fight metaphor was the wall of snow. If the wall is gone, you have no protection from the snowballs. Hopefully, all of you figured out that the wall stands for the equity in your account. And generally the bigger your equity, the safer you are from disaster. |
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Technical Analysis Articles |
Written by Ian Copsey |
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Support and resistance is a tool which is often used but quite often the source of the support and resistance levels are not often completely obvious. There are several ways to derive these levels: 1. Previous support remains supportive until broken and vice versa; 2. Previous support becomes resistance and vice versa in pivot levels; 3.Fibonacci derived support and resistance either by retracement or projections |
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Technical Analysis Articles |
Written by Ian Copsey |
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Have you ever scanned through the list of indicators to see whether there is anything interesting that you think you can use? Did you input Percent R? Maybe you thought it was useful, perhaps not. Did it remind you of anything? It looks similar to Fast Stochastics possibly… |
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General Trading Articles |
Written by Jim Wyckoff |
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My ideas for educational feature topics usually come from readers' suggestions or from tidbits I have gleaned from many years of studying and trading futures markets and stocks. I also get educational topic ideas from discussing markets with my peers in the newsletter and trading advisory services industry. For this educational feature, I don't have any one topic that I will focus upon, but instead will give you a few more trading "nuggets." |
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General Trading Articles |
Written by Dr. Van K Tharp |
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In the trading arena, most people focus on one of these variables, the ratio of white to black snowballs, and ignore the rest of them. That should give you a good clue what that variable means. But hopefully, even from the metaphor, you can see the importance of the other variables. |
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Technical Analysis Articles |
Written by Ian Copsey |
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MACD is used quite widely among traders mainly, it would seem, because the basis for the indicator is something they can visualize - effectively measuring the degree of convergence or divergence of two exponential moving averages. Commonly traders will consider buying or selling on crossover of the MACD lines. However, there can be problems and it is worth understanding when these may occur. |
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Technical Analysis Articles |
Written by Adam Rosen |
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The EURUSD (1-Hour Chart) has now established what appears to be a classic "Head and Shoulders" pattern over the course of the past few weeks. This pattern is essentially a 'triple top' pattern, where the center top (Head) stands higher than the first or third tops (Shoulders). The rational occurs as the result that the market was not able to revisit recent high prices established during the center top, and therefore is inherently a sign of an imminent reversal to come. |
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Technical Analysis Articles |
Written by Ian Copsey |
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When there is a modestly sustained move the Stochastic crossovers can provide a reasonable profit but all too often in the small, rather tight range consolidations it can give back much too much of hard earned profits. Is there any way we can try and prevent this give back? I tend to consider the plain signals provided by momentum indicators as too simple and in a way that doesn't really fully take price development into consideration. Does a reversal of the %FastD through %SlowD constitute a directional reversal? Personally I do not think so. |
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Trading Psychology Articles |
Written by Dr. Van K Tharp |
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The sixth key quality is that they all have a business plan to guide their trading. I've been talking about the importance of this plan for years. Most companies have a plan to raise money, but you need such a plan to help you treat your trading like a business. I've done a complete teleseminar on this topic and also a prior workshop. You can learn more about these on my website, plus future tips will also be about this topic. |
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Written by Jim Wyckoff |
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I get a lot of questions from less-experienced traders regarding how to best learn about and study "fundamentals" in markets. There is no quick and easy way to study market fundamentals, and I don't know of any books that focus only on fundamentals that impact all the futures markets. The reason books on fundamental analysis of futures markets are so rare is because the subject matter is so enormous. |
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Technical Analysis Articles |
Written by Ian Copsey |
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Many traders like to use Bollinger Bands to try and identify entry signals. The problem I have always had with them is that they only provide approximate support and resistance which causes problems in knowing where you should enter and where the stops should be placed. Not only that but sometimes they just don't seem to work at all as a support/resistance tool and the judgment of when they'll work appears purely subjective. |
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