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Swing Highs And Swing Lows 
Part of Art of Chart Reading The terms swing high and swing low often show up in all kinds of technical analysis discussions. They are simply the local extremes that are visible to us in a particular timeframe. It is not difficult at all to recogn ...
Part of Art of Chart Reading The terms swing high and swing low often show up in all kinds of technical analysis discussions. They are simply the local extremes that are visible to us in a particular timeframe. It is not difficult at all to recogn ...
Essence Of Trading: Make Trading Worth Your Time
One thing about being a trader, specifically daytrader, is to accomplish financial freedom with the power of scalability. Once you master a sound trading style, you can scale up easily to improve your profit. The important thing is to realize if ther ...
One thing about being a trader, specifically daytrader, is to accomplish financial freedom with the power of scalability. Once you master a sound trading style, you can scale up easily to improve your profit. The important thing is to realize if ther ...
The Minimalist Approach To Chart Patterns
Part of Art of Chart Reading There are chart readers who use many patterns. They use so many patterns you have to wonder if it is feasible to recognize them all. Of course one can computerize the patterns and automate the recognitions. But for nor ...
Part of Art of Chart Reading There are chart readers who use many patterns. They use so many patterns you have to wonder if it is feasible to recognize them all. Of course one can computerize the patterns and automate the recognitions. But for nor ...
Essence of Trading: Price Goes Up And Down
Before you spend time even thinking of the more complex price patterns or technical setups, have you even paying any attention to the most basic foundation of the price charts, like the price bars themselves? It does not matter you use candlesticks ...
Before you spend time even thinking of the more complex price patterns or technical setups, have you even paying any attention to the most basic foundation of the price charts, like the price bars themselves? It does not matter you use candlesticks ...
Estimate Of Volume Affected By The Sudden Margin Increase On Apple Inc.
I posted in my real-time chat yesterday in the morning that the sudden margin increase on Apple will force a significant amount of stocks to be liquidated and that amount can be estimated. It is not a straight forward formula. Instead we can approach ...
I posted in my real-time chat yesterday in the morning that the sudden margin increase on Apple will force a significant amount of stocks to be liquidated and that amount can be estimated. It is not a straight forward formula. Instead we can approach ...
Essence of Trading: Don't Forget Your Trading Goals
Many people simply forgotten why they choose to trade or day trade. Trading is an activity to seek profit. The time you spent on trading should be productive and profitable. More importantly, trading should be more profitable than, say, the salary o ...
Many people simply forgotten why they choose to trade or day trade. Trading is an activity to seek profit. The time you spent on trading should be productive and profitable. More importantly, trading should be more profitable than, say, the salary o ...
Essence Of Trading: Why We Love Picking Tops and Bottoms (Part 2)
... continue from part 1 Insecurity Associated With Trading Confirmed Signals When being stopped out, you feel a lot more painful on confirmed signals comparing to taking a relatively smaller loss should your extreme picking not going your way. T ...
... continue from part 1 Insecurity Associated With Trading Confirmed Signals When being stopped out, you feel a lot more painful on confirmed signals comparing to taking a relatively smaller loss should your extreme picking not going your way. T ...
Essence Of Trading: Why We Love Picking Tops and Bottoms (Part 1)
All common trading techniques with positive expectancies are likely triggered on confirmed basis, meaning that there is no top and bottom picking involved. Yet, almost all traders who learn to trade on their own would do so. This behaviour of picking ...
All common trading techniques with positive expectancies are likely triggered on confirmed basis, meaning that there is no top and bottom picking involved. Yet, almost all traders who learn to trade on their own would do so. This behaviour of picking ...
Essence Of Trading: Value Of Time
Many traders who learned to trade by themselves often glue themselves to the screen watching every single trade, every bid and offer updates on the markets they trade until they are so tired that they either fall asleep or cannot do it any more bec ...
Many traders who learned to trade by themselves often glue themselves to the screen watching every single trade, every bid and offer updates on the markets they trade until they are so tired that they either fall asleep or cannot do it any more bec ...
Magic Multiples For Position Sizing
Many people asked about my strategy of position sizing. I know the standard techniques involve calculating the exact number of contracts based on certain threshold of your trading capital to optimize performance. Since I do not stretch my trading cap ...
Many people asked about my strategy of position sizing. I know the standard techniques involve calculating the exact number of contracts based on certain threshold of your trading capital to optimize performance. Since I do not stretch my trading cap ...
