To Identify Price Action by Stock Market Participant Groups Before there were High Frequency Traders (HFTs), Dark Pools, Twilight Pools, and an 80% automated marketplace, the most important indicator was price. Many Retail Traders learned to simply rely upon price action and rarely considered stock volume or quantity analysis. Chart …
7 Tips for Selecting Best Indicators for the Stock Market Today Stock Indicators are one of the most useful tools for Individual Investors and Retail Traders. However, choosing the right indicators for your Trading Style and Strategies can be a daunting task. There are over 250 indicators available in the …
Consider Market Condition and Stock Trend Cycle Buy the Dip is a very old-style strategy that is frequently touted as “brand-new” to new and beginning stock traders, novice swing traders, and new investors. The theory is that you want to “buy low and sell high”. But more often than not, …
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 …
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 …
Identify Dark Pools and High Frequency Traders Reading MetaStock Charts is a skill that all traders need to hone and strive to improve constantly. Candlestick price patterns matter. What price is doing reveals a great deal about which Stock Market Participant Groups are controlling price. Who is in control of …
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. …
Use It with Balance of Power as a Combination Indicator Improve your Elliott Wave Analysis and Trading System with a few simple additions to your Technical Analysis. Increase profitability, simplify the process, and make the analysis easier and more reliable. This will save time and improve the use and analysis …
Use Stock Volume and Leading Indicators Stocks and the Stock Market move sideways about 70% of the time. Yes, some stocks get into periods of moderately trending activity. However, if you really look at charts just to see the 3 trends of Uptrending, Downtrending, and Sideways, you will see that …