Stock Trading Systems

Welcome Back! photo credit: jurvetson Choosing investment tools should be done carefully and cautiously.  It’s not necessary to have fancy or expensive tools — but you need good tools.  Those are the tools that do the job you need to have completed. Understanding the type of trader you want to become will tell you what [...]

photo credit: nDevilTV Your stock market results will depend on several factors: picking the correct time to enter the market, choosing the correct instrument, and having a sound trading method. The first two are relatively easy to manage.  If you want to buy stock it’s best to do it when the market is rising.  Don’t [...]

photo credit: Incase. The technical analysis of the financial markets is an exercise that some of us traders find very useful.  When I first started trading, the P/E, book value, ROE, etc. were all calculations made with great care. It wasn’t until seeing an interview of John Murphy that I discovered an alternative to my [...]

photo credit: pfala A very useful options trading strategy  in a choppy market is hedging.  Here’s a quick example of how to use a hedge for a long stock position. If you have a stock that has unrealized gains from an increase in share price a protective put strategy can help safeguard those gains.  It’s [...]

ETF investing, like sliced bread, is one of man’s greatest inventions! They trade like stocks, so they are very liquid.  Because an ETF is composed of a basket of securities they offer instant diversification.  With ETF’s you avoid stock-specific risk. Consider this made-up example — ABC stock, the greatest widget maker in the world,  has [...]

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photo credit: stepleton The technical analysis of stocks is the process of trying to determine the future movement based on prior movements. What technical analysis does not do is make hard and fast predictions about the future. Knowing the limitations of technical analysis makes a better technical analyst. The curse of chart-reading is in its [...]

New traders are hungry for stock trading training and strategies.  I’ll be the first to admit that a lot of the stuff written to help is either sales-oriented or just not very good. If I may be so bold as to make a suggestion — if you’re a self-starter and you like to read try [...]

I don’t know any forex trading strategies — the world of FX is very different from the arena in which I operate.  Yet I watch the world currencies with interest. It’s not news that the Euro has been extremely weak, but so have all the world currencies.  The Australian Dollar, Yen, Swiss Franc, and the [...]

photo credit: jking89 Short term trading may mean a minute, an hour, one day, or a few days. Because we all should know our risk tolerance, short-term trading is different for each of us. Given the extremely negative trading environment that is currently upon us a Larry Connors short-term strategy came to mind and it [...]