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How to Exit Stocks at Correct Technical Level

Identify Resistance Where Professional Traders Would Start Taking Profits Most of the time, Retail Traders are focused on finding stocks to trade. However, they spend scant time on assessing risk, proper stop loss placement, trailing profit stops, and determining when to exit the trade, especially as a stock goes ballistic. …

Indicators for Earnings Report Trading Strategies

Trade Earnings by Tracking Professional Traders & High Frequency Traders Earnings Season provides plenty of strong momentum runs for Swing and Day Traders. However, many traders struggle with determining how the stock will move on the day of the report release. To succeed at finding Professional Traders’ footprints before an …

How to Identify Topping Action with Bollinger Bands®

Use Bollinger Bands with Quantity Indicators Bollinger Bands are an outstanding indicator for analyzing sideways candlestick patterns. The bands’ ability to expand and contract revealing the amplitude of price is a critical factor for accurately identifying breakout action before price moves up or down. Use Bollinger Bands topping action to …

Trading the Small Cap Stocks

About Outstanding Shares and Momentum Runs Most Retail Traders only trade big cap stocks. This is because they depend mostly on news for finding stocks to trade. It can also be due to relying upon Industry or Sector selections, often missing out on the underlying stocks that are moving with …

How Does Stock Fundamental Support Form?

By Dark Pool Candlestick Pattern Platforms Fundamental Investors and Traders are the Buy Side Institutions, who use Dark Pools to buy and sell large to giant lots and block orders. Often trading short-term are the Sell Side Institutions and Smaller Funds. Small-Lot Retail Investors are negligible and tend not to …

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