Buy Side Institutions Buying in Dark Pools Prior to Runs The “Platform Candlestick Pattern” is a relatively new sideways candlestick pattern that is becoming more and more prevalent as the Dark Pools’ activity increases. Dark Pools are Alternative Trading System (ATS) venues that transact giant-lot orders off of the Exchanges. …
List of 5 What to Recognize in Candlestick Patterns Many traders do not have the time or resources to trade the most well-known Trading Styles, which are Day Trading and Swing Trading. Both of these styles require more time, a higher capital base, and the ability to be trading in …
Use List for Technical Analysis of Candlestick Patterns The candlestick chart below is a good example of a Rounding Top Candlestick Pattern, which is the hardest of all the tops to see before it breaks to the downside, as they tend to do during a Market Correction. For Swing Trading, …
Differences in Styles, Costs, and Profits Day Trading is the most widely talked about Trading Style for Retail Traders. However, it is the least profitable of all the short-term Trading Styles. This is a little-known fact that no one ever tells Retail Traders when they start to learn to trade …
For Interpreting What Price Will Do After Stock Volume Spikes The chart example below with a Daily Chart View shows that High Frequency Traders (HFTs) caused a huge white candlestick and stock Volume spike, as indicated by the vertical red line on the right. Since then, this stock has been …
Low-Risk Entry with a High Profit Target When someone thinks about trading stocks, either Day Trading or Swing Trading pops into their head most of the time. However, many people do not have the time or the desire to sit at a computer or even on their phone trading stocks …
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 …
Overnight Order Flow of Market Orders & Limit Orders Many Retail Traders really enjoy trading gaps because of the higher point gains that come quickly. But in order to reap the gains from a gap, you must be in the stock PRIOR to the gap. Chasing a gapping stock or …
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 …
Trading and Investing Styles List with Descriptions Your Trading Style will dictate which financial trading instrument you should use. Most traders do not have a well-defined Trading Style OR they are attempting to use a Trading Style that is unsuitable to their personalities, goals, capital base, education, and experience. The …