7 Tips for Entering Stocks Ahead of Them The important Buy Side Institutions are not front-run or affected by High Frequency Trader (HFT) algorithms because they use Dark Pools which are non-transparent order systems that do not display until AFTER the order is filled. Consequently, HFT algorithms cannot see the …
Understanding the Overlapping Cycle of the Super Sectors The Financial Markets use different Sector and Industry formatting than Economists. The Dow Industrial Average was established based on the economy theory of its time when there were 30 major Industries in the US, while for the Stock Market today, Economists use …
List of Myths and Facts with Answers You Should Know There are many Myths about Stock Trading that Beginner Traders hear and believe. This is because they are new to trading and do not realize that what they have been told is not fact. This leads to unnecessary losses and …
Determine Stock Trends & Stock Market Participant Groups The sell side of the market, aka the downside, is not the same as the buy side, aka the upside. One of the big reasons is that when the Stock Market is moving up on a long-term primary trend, ALL 9 Stock …
List of 5 Includes the Basics with Explanations Most traders and investors learn how to buy stocks and then spend most of their time looking for great stocks to buy and trade for a few days or to invest in for many years. However, as soon as a downtrend Market …
10 Tips on What to Do and How to Do It Previously in one of my TechniTrader Student support publications, I suggested how to specialize in a Trading Style. I had a student write to me about that publication, and here is what he said: “Over the past few years, …
List of Possible Common Write-Off Expenses Many Individual Investors and Retail Traders do not know that years ago, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) established a ruling for the retail side of the Stock Market where they could have the same tax benefits as a Professional Trader. The ruling was done …
List for Evaluating Costs vs. True Profits True profit is one big part of trading that most traders fail to include in profit evaluation. How to calculate the true cost of your trading is considering more than just the cost of charting software, broker fees and charges, and possibly subscriptions …
Two Dominant Stock Market Participant Groups Explained There are two dominant Stock Market Participant Groups in the Stock and Options Markets. The giant Buy Side Institutions use Alternative Trading Systems (ATSs), which create Dark Pools to hide their buying and selling. Their counterparts are the High Frequency Traders (HFTs), which …
How They Are Changing the Stock Market The retail news and professional news feeds offer extremely opposing perspectives on what is going on with stocks in short-term trading, liquidity, execution speed, and the overall internal Stock Market Structure. While the retail side of the news media focuses on basic news …