After that, it's leverage.
The issue for me as a long-time trader, is people these days don't seem to have time, patience or the ability to absorb information.
They read an article or watch a few seconds of a stream and assume they know!
I am not just talking crypto, I mean in general. The attention span of a fish.
I read a pretty decent article by this...
Three Black Crows is a term used to describe a bearish candlestick pattern that can predict a reversal in an uptrend.
Classic candlestick charts show "Open", "High", "Low" and "Close" prices of a bar for a particular security. For markets moving up, the candlestick is usually white, green or blue. When moving lower they are black or red.
The Three Black Crows...
S&P500 (SPX) strategy using Stochastic RSI Min-Max, normalized Volatility and Trailing Stop signals, beats the Buy&Hold strategy by 16 times
Embarking on the quest to time the market accurately, the 'Holy Grail' of strategies, led me to create a script to approach this goal. Unlike other strategies that I tested, this one not only surpasses the long-term S&P500...
As we approach the end of 2023, we are just a short time away from the 1st anniversary of the AI research company ChatGPT's chatbot being launched on November 30, 2022.
This publication, although dedicated to a single company - Microsoft Corporation - is educational in nature, and is a representation of a letter to shareholders - 2023 by Satya Nadella, Chairman...
Dividend Market as well as Dividend futures trading shines bright, in accordance with CME Group @CME_Group Q3'23 Equity Insights Report. Dividend futures combined Q3 ADV reached 5.1K contracts, and OI averaged 284K contracts (+5% vs. Q2 2023).
Over 77K contracts have traded since the launch of Annual Dividend Index futures on Nasdaq-100 NASDAQ:NDX and Russell...
I was reading another trading book today and much like watching the dumb money movie the other day, it prompted me to write another post.
So, you may have heard the expression "the market is an Algorithm" whilst this is somewhat true, it's actually more a sequence, Ralph Elliott, Richard Wyckoff and Edward Jones knew this.
In simple terms, the larger operators...
I am pleased to introduce a robust long-term strategy that seamlessly combines performance with an enticing risk profile.
This strategy involves strategically investing in ETFs indexed on the S&P 500 and ETFs backed by physical gold. Let's delve into the rationale behind selecting these two assets:
S&P 500:
1. Automatic Diversification: Instant exposure to a...
The issue is everyone wants to make money (well, maybe not everyone) but nobody wants to take the time to learn how to do it properly. This is NOT a sales pitch by the way! it's FACT!!
People often ask why I bash influencers so much, it's mainly for this reason. Majority of noobs, come into trading expecting to make a fortune. If only it was that easy, every...
A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Looking outside the Scope of Trend:
To Peek or Not to Peek
“The trend is your friend until the end when it bends.” - Ed Seykota
Trend analysis lies at the core of technical analysis. Modern technical analysis derived from Dow Theory. In turn, Dow Theory emphasized the nature and importance of trends and their constituent parts and...
There's a completely logical but not often used "technique" (if you can call it that) I see only very experienced traders use.
When I do it I can understand why very few people actually stick to it.
Yes it's profitable.
Yes it will make you money both in the short term and the long term.
But you will feel extremely uncomfortable.
The technique I'm talking...
PRIMARY CHART: S&P 500 (SPX) with VIX/VIX3M ratio in subgraph on a weekly time frame
Tricks for Reading the VIX Part I
SquishTrade's original 2022 article on VIX entitled "Tricks for Reading the VIX" covered the basic concepts of the CBOE's Volatility Index (VIX) to aid in understanding and interpreting VIX and its behavior relative to the S&P 500 ( SP:SPX )....
Get rewarded for your ideas and scripts!
A month earlier, on the 20th of May, Tradingview introduced its new Rewards Program .
Sharing is powerful, right!? The TradingView community thrives on fantastic members who share their knowledge, experience, successes and sometimes even their failures. Interaction, open discussion and self-expression are the keys to...
Funniest thing always happens in a bear market;
You get influencer guru wannabe gigachads acting like they're OJ Simpsons lawyer trying to argue a case they know is wrong.
If the glove fits, right?
When the ships sinking peeps turn into three people;
(1) They admit they were wrong, reassess and act accordingly (2) They deny their lying eyes and continue to...
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(DXY chart)
The 102.034-105.873 section is a volatility section, and depending on which direction you deviate from this section, the movement of the investment market is expected to...
As discussed in class yesterday.
Similar setup on ES
-Net Short
-Bearish overall bias
-50/vwap bounce (down) with MACD zero bounce( down)
-Old support /New resistance with 50 MA
Powerful setups...
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I recently did a video to highlight the key levels to watch on the S+P. There is a convergence of resistance at 4017/83 (this is the location of the one-year downtrend, the 55-week ma and nearby resistance). I explained that success or failure at this key zone would be critical for direction over the next few months and this zone should go on your radar.
I was...
I love trading these patterns. They are my favorites when I trade. Sometime it's difficult to spot because they need to complete the formation.
Diagonals aka wedges, usually people are confused with continuation triangle and get squeezed. Has 2 types: leading and ending. Leading has 2 entry points. If it breaks the first entry, wait for second one to enter an...
Home work, do your research and learn learn learn till you become aware of what is
going on in mkts and then being able to choose the right path for your and being able
to distinguish right ideas and analysis from the wrong ones.
*****Passing this cool info (Not mine) :
2. Set realistic expectations
When you're investing, your expectations of what you could...
