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The Best Thing About Day Trading
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SharebarThe best thing about day trading is it is scalable if your chosen financial instrument has enough liquidity. It doesn’t matter if you are an experienced pattern day trader or just starting to learn day trading, knowing that your skills are scalable is very motivating […]
There are many ways to assess the state of the stock market.You could take the fundamental approach and consider a wide array of variables to derive an actual value based on projected profits and cash flows. You could take the technical approach and consider price chart patterns.You could also focus on sentiment, which is somewhere in between the fundamental […]
Daily technical analysis – 30 April 2014April 30, 2014 by Craig Erlam in Technical analysisEURUSDWe’ve seen a really strong rally in the pair in the last couple of hours following a negative start to the day. The sell-off saw the 50 fib level – 4 April lows to 11 April highs – once again provide solid support for the pair. […]
My 10 Favorite Technical Analysis BooksPosted by JC Parets
on April 29th, 2014
Share on StockTwitsIt feels like almost every day someone asks me what books I recommend reading if they’re trying to learn more about Technical Analysis. I figured I should just make a list and publish it for everyone to see.So here you go:Technical […]
Re: Technical Analysis and Individual InvestorsPosted by JC Parets
on March 19th, 2014
Share on StockTwitsI’m going to keep this short and sweet. I don’t think it’s worth dedicating more than a couple of minutes to commenting this study. I’m referring to last month’s release of a paper written by Arvid Hoffman and Hersh Shefrin titled, […]
ShutterstockThere are two schools of financial market analysis: 1) fundamental analysis, which is concerned economics, financial statements, earnings, and anything else that you would assume would justify a value in a real-world sense and 2) technical analysis, which attempts to forecast prices by studying past price movements.
Fundamental and technical analysis aren’t totally mutually exclusive. But the folks who focus on […]
On Wednesday, February 26, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Minyanville.com and Buzz & Banter contributor Michael Gayed for an exclusive interview.Mr. Gayed serves as Chief Investment Strategist for the asset management firm Pension Partners and is one of the most valued members of the Minyanville family.We’ve posted a partial transcript of the interview in this article. If […]
The are quite a number of different stock investing strategies. We can choose which ones fit us best. But sometimes the choice isn’t all about what we want.The stock market is a chaotic place. A lot of things can happen. And, like most other things in life, different situations call for different actions.To be honest, cost-averaging over the long-term is […]
I’ve been working on gathering my thoughts for the market in 2014. This is a very useful exercise, in that it forces us to really think about what goes into stock prices, what those assumptions should be, and how they interact.There are three key variables here: the growth rate of the economy as a whole and the level and change […]
