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How Stocks Work – From a First Graders Perspective
How does the Stock Market Work? Stocks, oh where do we begin? Let me first commend you for taking the time to try and understand how the stock market works. When researching this topic you will...
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How to Let Your Winners Run – 7 Tips for Success
Letting your winners run is a topic which polarizes traders. There are those that swing for consistency and trade with strict profit targets. These are the traders who likely view letting your...
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Is Day Trading Like Gambling – 8 Signs You have Lost Your Way
This answer to this question is based on the strategy and investing style of the participant. I can tell you without a doubt that trading in the markets is not like gambling at all. Gambling has a...
View ArticleHow to Trade with Margin
What is trading with Margin? Trading with margin is simply using borrowed money to buy or sell stocks short. Brokerage firms will allow you to use your cash on hand as equity in determining the amount...
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Learn How to Pull the Trigger on a Trade
First Let's Try to Understand Why you are Afraid? Fear is one of the emotions that can hold you back from reaching your full trading potential. Trading is primarily a mental game and those that...
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8 Reasons Why Not to Sell a Stock Short
Selling Short requires more skill than going long. That statement alone may trigger a response from my readers, but I believe that is an accurate statement for a number of reasons. First, the market...
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How to use the NYSE Summation Index as a Trading Guidepost
Why Care about the NYSE Summation Index Let me first start off by saying that this article will not cover the nuances of how the Summation Index was created, all the detailed math behind the equation...
View Article6 Reasons Day Trading While at Work is a Bad Idea
I totally get your motivation of day trading while at work. Odds are you are a logical person and fully understand the risk you are taking by even considering trading as a means of income. Naturally...
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5 Simple Steps for How to Day Trade Penny Stocks
Story Highlights Day trading penny stocks requires a methodical approach for locating and trading the best opportunities in the market Penny stocks are not like other securities in that their price...
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5 Benefits of Day Trading without Margin
As I say day trading without margin aloud, it is almost as if I am taking all the fun and excitement out of trading. I would compare it to riding a super charged Harley with a helmet. The trading...
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How to Measure Your Trading Performance
Trading performance is something that I have personally been studying for over 15 years. It's one of those topics that many traders either avoid or spend little time researching. Most traders, simply...
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6 Reasons Not to Trade During the First 30 Minutes
The first 30 minutes is the most volatile time in the equities market. As a new or even seasoned trader, you will gravitate to the first 30 minute slot like a moth to a flame. It really comes down to...
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5 Reasons I Use Stop Limit Orders to Enter Trades
I exclusively use stop limit orders to enter day trades. This is because I trade breakout strategies and I like to wait for the price to exceed the most recent high or low. In this article, I will...
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Top 4 Awesome Oscillator Day Trading Strategies
Awesome Oscillator I don't know about you, but what was Bill Williams thinking when he came up with the name awesome oscillator? With names floating around as complex and diverse as moving average...
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5 Examples of Keltner Channels versus Bollinger Bands
I am a self-proclaimed ATR fanatic, yet I have not explored Keltner Channels. The Keltner Channel is a lagging on-chart indicator that uses a combination of exponential moving averages and the Average...
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3 Strategies for Trading Flags and Pennants
Flags and pennants are foundational chart patterns of technical analysis. What I mean by this is most technical traders have heard of the patterns, as these are easy to recognize. Most of the trading...
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How to Improve your Trade Entry and Execution
When you review your historical trades, you will notice that given a better entry price, your loser could have actually been a winner. It's like anything in life timing is the key. When day trading,...
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How to Trade using the Choppiness Index Indicator
choppiness indicator Wouldn't we all love to know when a stock is trending and when it is in flat territory? Close your eyes for a second and imagine a world where you know on the first tick that the...
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How to Day Trade with the Elder’s Force Index
Overview of Elder's Force Index (EFI) You can never call Alexander Elder a humble guy as he decided that the best name for his indicator would be that of his own last name. I can however appreciate the...
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6 Best Price Action Trading Strategies
Overview of Price Action Charts If you browse the web, at times it can be difficult to determine if you are looking at a stock charts or hieroglyphics. When you see a chart with a ton of indicators...
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