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What Is Missing in Your Risk Analysis?

Stop Loss with Support & Resistance The least used and most often improperly used analysis by Technical Traders and Retail Traders is Risk Analysis. All too often, traders are choosing high-risk stock picks without realizing it. See the candlestick chart example below. This analysis is NOT using percentages, but rather …

How to Trade Stocks Profitably for Beginners

Precise Sideways Price Action Means Buyers Are Dominant Most Individual Investors and Retail Traders do not realize that they have a huge advantage over the professional side of the market. This is due to the constraints, restrictions, rules, and regulations the professional side must comply with on an ongoing basis. …

Why Did Options Trading Opportunities Increase?

Traders Are Using Stock Chart Analysis Options Trading has suddenly become far more popular with Professional Traders and Smaller Funds, who are now learning to trade Options. This means that Retail Traders will find more trading volume and opportunities than what have been around previously. It is the Renaissance of …

TechniTrader® Hybrid Indicators for MetaStock Users

About TechniCators™ and Market Conditions for Trading or Investing TechniTrader Stock Market Education groups indicators together based on obtaining a complete and thorough analysis of all the Market Data available. These are typically 5 Hybrid Indicators we created. Each group is called a “TechniCator”, and there are TechniCators for each …

Where Is Support for Swing Trading Style Runs?

Stronger and Weaker Support Explained Support and Resistance are often areas of Technical Analysis that are not fully understood. Swing Trading includes Momentum Runs, Velocity Runs, Volatile Runs, and Intraday Swing-Style Runs, each of which have their own Support and Resistance. The chart example below had a Standard Swing Run …

How to Use Bollinger Bands® in MetaStock Charts

Add Stock Volume Indicators for Direction Stock Will Move The Bollinger Bands indicator has been gaining in popularity. This is no surprise, given the changes in the Market Structure and how price behaves with more of the Exchanges, Dark Pool Alternative Trading Systems (ATSs), Electronic Communication Networks (ECNs), and other …

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