Today is Friday October 19th and will be updating trading results at the bottom of the page for the past week, but want to share a few thoughts on the title of today’s post, “scalp trading for daily profit”. For most people scalp trading is the hardest form of day trading, but it has it rewards and its disadvantages for some. This is the most difficult form of trading to master as your discipline and patients will be tested. Learning…
Yesterday’s action was no surprise, a big sell off. The indexes moved up on Wednesday a little more than I thought, but no real surprise there, just before a sell off, drawing in those who wanted higher prices. Wednesday I said that at the open we should see some continuation going higher by a few points, but once the trajectory of the up move is broken, you will see the wave down to lower prices. We needed to see how…
Do you find you spend too much time watching the forex charts with too little results? Don’t you wish you could be enjoying your life instead of getting stressed out by price movements? What if you could make money trading forex in less than 10 minutes a day? Trading the forex markets for profit can be very lucrative. Unfortunately, there is a huge learning curve before you can really get a decent grasp of what it takes to be a…
Hundreds of brokers and system developers are enticing new traders into trading the Forex market with claims of double digit or higher returns in a short space of time by using MetaTrader4 automatic trading systems, called Expert Advisors. The reality is that 95% of new traders lose their trading bank in the first couple of months. How can you ensure that you are part of the successful 5%? 1. Get familiar with the Forex market. You can’t possibly hope to…
I trust you’re enjoying this series on Lessons from the Casino. Although many investors would not consider themselves “gamblers,” their investment decisions call their self-judgement into question. That’s why I wanted to take a few moments to compare approaches within the two arenas. So far, here’s the lessons we’ve considered from the Casino: Avoid Debt to Create Investment EquityWalk Away a Winner by Putting Cash in your PocketKnow the Rules of the Game before PlayingDon’t get Raked over the Coals……
I started investing without really bothering looking at the financial reports. When I started looking at stocks, I looked at the company’s name and evaluate whether the products that the company is selling are popular. My rationale is simple: As long as the product is popular, profit streams will be continuous. What I failed to realize is that a good product does not really translate to profits. There are many companies who have good products but still end up losing…
In whatever trade market you are on, your trading system should always contain rules or initiatives that would prevent you from further losing money, should the market is not working in your favor. One of these is a proper trade exit. This is part of risk management that you should take seriously or else you will continue to lose within your market. Probably you have already set your system on how to spot a good trading opportunity and you have…
The stock market is a complex and constantly changing environment, so who regulates it? This question could be answered in many different ways. The Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) has the primary responsibility for regulating the securities industry. They are tasked with overseeing all aspects of this industry including stocks, bonds, and other investments. State governments also have their own regulations that may apply to some specific types of securities transactions depending on who is involved or where they take place.…
How a special combination and setting of proven indicators, can alert you on significant Stock Market tops and bottoms. RSI – Relative Strength Index is a well known and much used momentum indicator. It was invented by J. Welles Wilder Jr., a great technical analyst. RSI compares the magnitude of a stock or index’s recent gains to the magnitude of it’s recent losses and that information is turned into a number that ranges from 0 to 100. A single parameter…
When it comes to investments, risk tolerance is an issue often discussed but rarely defined with precision. And maybe, because it is a complex issue that has to do with the psychology of each investor, is a difficult topic to address, because there are no fixed rules can be applied equally to everyone. As a first tool to approach this issue, there are tests that candidates can apply to measure. Surely, as a result investors may be described as: conservative,…