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 …
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 …
Time Progression Stock Chart Examples Explained Within this article are “time progression” stock chart examples of one stock to help readers focus on the candlestick patterns of the Stock Market Participant Groups. Each of the groups discussed create certain candlestick patterns in the charts. Therefore, a portion of the chart …
Buy Side Institutions vs. Sell Side Institutions There is a hidden world within Wall Street that the average Retail Trader never sees or hears about. Right now, two powerhouse sides of the market are at war with each other. It is the Buy Side Institutions vs. the Sell Side Institutions. …
List of Differences Between Upside & Downside Candlesticks During an Intermediate-Term Correction caused by several major industries in an industry cycle Bear Market, Sell Down Momentum Runs can be a lucrative trading method for Swing, Day, and Momentum Traders who know how to Sell Short or trade “put” Options. See …