This standard definition of a trend is correct and confirms it but does not rank it by preference for an actual trade. If using a trend-following...
Irrelevant.
If you try to trade the way hedge funds do, you should expect a similar result to what they get. They make a very small percentage of profit,...
He's already "gone to meet his Mentor?"
As you have tried so many systems and patterns, it must be that you haven't decided what you need to find. Your search will continue for ever...
No problem Bugsy. Your concern highlights one of the issues when trading stocks - each one on its own is much more liable to surprises than an...
Buy-outs in a sector tend to come in series. As long as yours isn't the first in line you might get some early warning as larger players in the...
Sounds like a trend-following strategy. I love to follow one of these, but using the 20 and 50EMAs instead of the 10 and 40SMA's, so little real...
Get into long-term trading. Check your charts after the close, set your orders with stop-loss for each, then go to sleep, then go to work and do...
I'm not a maths expert, calculation as such doesn't come into my trading style much but I can definitely say its good to understand percentages...
Yes, some still occur out of the blue. Of the 20 worst daily price falls on the Dow since 1900, only 4 came in like that, the other 16 came out of...
I don't accept that downside protection is the ONLY risk management for a crash. I have been busily posting elsewhere that most price-negative...
Here is a further study of the 20 worst 1-day price falls in the Dow since 1900. The object is to establish – “Would a trader have avoided these...
What I'm saying is that the most significant price falls occur when price is already falling, as demonstrated by the location of price and the...
I agree on that, real time calls are not the be-all end-all test of a trader. What's important is why the trade was made, and why the stop was...
Wikipedia carries a handy list of the worst stock market crashes and bear markets in Europe and United States...
There have to be other factors that would influence whether you go short after seeing a 20/50EMA dead cross. It cannot be an automatic reaction....
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There's really no need to adapt a trading strategy continuously. Price will either rise or fall and its surely easy to decide what you will do in...
I also would certainly hope that newcomers do not take technical indicators at face value: I'm on record as stating I never use any off-chart...
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