Include a Volume Indicator for Stock Picks In the early days of Technical Analysis, all of the data from the Stock Market was not readily available in a format that could be hand-drawn on a chart. The earliest chartists had to create their charts using either Point and Figure, Line, …
Take This Simple Test to See If You Will Be a Great Day Trader Day Trading is one of the most widely promoted styles of trading stocks for beginners and new Retail Traders. Many training companies teach Day Trading for beginners, but is this in their best interest? Or is …
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 …
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 …
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 …
List of 5 Includes Retail Trader Cluster Orders The chart example below shows High Frequency Trading high stock Volume spikes and long candlesticks. They attempted to drive price up as indicated by the green arrow, but the price quickly shifted sideways and then turned down again. The stock did not …
Determine Levels and Strength of Support Topping patterns have undergone dramatic changes in the past decade due to Market Structure changes which have created new types of venues, orders, routing, and Market Participants. Once the new topping formations are identified, the next analysis must be where small and minor non-reversal …
Identifying Large Lots Dominating Buy Side or Sell Side of Momentum Run The most common mistake Retail Traders make in choosing stocks for Swing Trading is to not identify whether the large lots are dominating the buy side or the sell side during the price action momentum run upward. This …