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Foundations of Trading: A Trader’s Journey [Part 14]
Welcome back to another edition of A Trader’s Journey, where we will cover the contents of Foundation of Trading level 3 class 4. In this class, we will build upon what we learned last week with the Fibonacci Sequence and learn how to identify ‘waves’ on your candlestick chart. So, grab your metaphorical surfboard, and […]
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Market Insights: How to Develop a Trading Plan that Wins [Part 4]
Welcome back! Chris Burgess here with part four of our series on designing a trading plan. However, I want to summarize the steps we’ve covered already in this series and leave you with some parting thoughts.As we learned in Part I, the first step to designing a winning trading plan is to decide on your […]
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Market Insights: How to Develop a Trading Plan that Wins [Part 3]
Welcome back! Chris Burgess here with part 3 of our exploration of trading plans and how to design one that works for you. In this blog, we’re moving on to the third step of a trading plan: choosing strategies.It’s vital that you’ve done the first two steps which you can review here and here, before […]
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Market Insights: How to Develop a Trading Plan that Wins [Part 2]
Chris Burgess here, and welcome back to another Market Insights blog! Today, I’m continuing the series I started in our last blog on formulating a trading plan which you can read here. Next, we’ll explore the second step of a trading plan: determining your time horizon and trading style and how those decisions impact your […]
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Market Insights: How to Develop a Trading Plan that Wins [Part 1]
Chris Burgess here, and I am back with another Market Insights blog! It’s been a while, and it feels good to be back. Today I wanted to start a discussion about trading plans and designing your own trading plan.The subject of trading plans is a very vast topic, and it’s one that is difficult to […]
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Market Insights: Market Indicators You Should Know [Part 2]
Welcome back! Let’s continue our discussion on market sentiment indicators. Remember from last week that a market sentiment indicator is just what it sounds like: an indicator that helps gauge market sentiment regarding bullishness vs. bearishness. Last week, we looked at what the S&P 500 (SPX) was doing:And compared that to the Put-Call Ratio indicator […]
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Market Insights: Market Indicators You Should Know [Part 1]
Today, I want to start talking about market sentiment indicators. What are those? Well, a market sentiment indicator is just what it sounds like: an indicator that helps gauge market sentiment regarding bullishness vs. bearishness. First, let’s take a look at what the market has been doing:As you’re no doubt aware, the market began selling […]
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Market Insights: Why I Trade Options [Part 2]
Welcome back! I took a one-week hiatus from these Market Insights posts, but we’re back in full swing. The markets have been going absolutely crazy these last couple of weeks, so there’s definitely plenty to talk about!However, I want to focus on wrapping up part 2 of the “why I trade options” discussion that I […]
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Market Insights: Why I Trade Options [Part 1]
Welcome back dear reader! Last week, I took a look at this chart pattern on the S&P 500:I talked about pattern recognition, and how the S&P 500 had continually bounced off of its 50-day moving average. Now that it had pulled back to the 50-day moving average again, it seemed like a great buying opportunity. […]
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Market Insights: Something Volatile This Way Comes
September volatility is in full swing this week after an extended weekend. All major indexes are down, from the S&P 500 (SPX):…to the Dow Jones (DJI):…the Russell 2000 (RUT):…and the NASDAQ 100 (NDX): Tech is the least scathed at the moment, as the tech giants did fairly well on Tuesday, although they have taken a […]
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