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FINDING THE EDGE |
| Market Dynamics |
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Trend-Range Mechanics |
| When stock movement breaks the rules, it could be emitting a very strong signal. Here's what to look for when you're expecting the unexpected. |
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Effective Market Timing Folks believe chart-reading automatically leads to profitable trading. This isn't true. |
Exit Strategies Most traders don't have an exit plan, whether their positions are turning a profit or going down in flames. |
Exploiting Market Inefficiency Traders need to control time and information variables, and navigate shifting markets. |
Mastering Reward:Risk Most traders ignore reward/risk, hoping that luck will save them when things start to go bad. |
Measuring Reward:Risk Trading is an odds game, in which anything can happen at any time. |
Mastering The Art Of The Exit Is it really any harder to make money now than it was a year ago? Two years ago? |
Overbought/Oversold Overload Should we run for the hills because a market is overbought, or load up the boat because it's oversold? |
Playing Failed Failures Modern markets try to burn everyone through rinse jobs before they launch definable trends. |
Pulling The Trigger Q&A Greed and fear exert a powerful influence when the time comes to enter the trade. |
Stop Loss Q&A What takes place at the end of a trade usually reflects decisions made at the beginning. |
Trade Entry Q&A Traders spend hours looking for new positions but get ten thumbs and make a thousand mistakes getting into the market. |
Trade Management Q&A We spend hours searching for the perfect pattern but fail miserably when its time to turn opportunity into profit. |
10 Trading Pitfalls And How To Avoid Them Even the most successful traders do the dumbest things every single day the market is open for business. |
10 Ways To Improve Your Market Timing Most folks speculating on the financial markets face major disappointment when they look at their year-end results. |
10 Ways To Master The Trade Raw capital production may not be the best way to judge your progress. |
Trading The News The big money has already acted upon the news by the time you see it. |
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RIDING THE WAVE |
| Breakouts |
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Trend Following Systems |
| Breakouts through key support or resistance signal price movement that will likely persist for some time. Use these key trend and breakout patterns to capture large pieces of the move. |
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Breakout Trading A market starts rising when it stops falling. Hidden in the final twists and turns of long bottoms, new uptrends go unnoticed by the crowd. |
Buying The Pullback The pullback is a great way to lose money if you jump in too early or too late. |
Catch The Dow and Elliott Waves Dow Theory hasn't missed a beat in over 100 years. So what does Charlie Dow have to offer modern traders? |
Morning Gap Management Gap hurl positions and assumptions into unknown territory. |
Morning Gap Strategies Having trouble with those irritating morning gaps? You're not alone. |
Recognizing False Breakouts and Whipsaws Common knowledge of price levels is being used against traders in a conscious and diabolical manner. |
The Gap Primer Old traders' wisdom advises that gaps get filled. However, some gaps never fill. |
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FAST FINGERS |
| Day Trading |
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Intraday Cycles and Tactics |
| Day traders face intense competition and hidden traps set by insiders. Avoid common intraday pitfalls and make market cycles work in your favor. |
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3-D Trade Execution Use multiple time frame pattern analysis to identify profitable intraday trade setups. |
Bid-Ask The bid/ask spread reveals underlying supply and demand on the ticker tape. |
Extended Hour Trading The trading day doesn't begin at 9:30 a.m. New York time, nor does it end at 4 p.m. |
Pullback Day Trading Learn to step in front of other day traders on intraday pullbacks. |
Reading The Intraday Swing The intraday market weaves back and forth like a drunken sailor. |
Playing The Midday Swings The compulsion to overtrade the midday markets can ruin a perfectly good session. |
10 Tips for Reading The Ticker Tape It can take a decade or more staring at the shifting numbers to decipher all the games played by Wall Street. |
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UNCHARTED TERRITORY |
| New Highs |
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Momentum Trading |
| Stocks at new highs display unique momentum characteristics that can persist for months. Jump on the momentum bandwagon but minimize the considerable risks when you do. |
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Momentum Cycles Minimize the risks of momentum trading by tuning your positions to the hidden action-reaction cycles of dynamic trend. |
Uncharted Territory Use the Rule of Alternation to measure opportunity as stocks rally to new highs. |