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 …
TechniTrader Scans Provide Market Condition and Stock Picks The first and most important thing is to determine the current Market Condition of the six conditions which can occur in the market today. I developed a tool for doing this for Individual Investors and Retail Traders called the “TechniTrader Market Condition …
Identify Dark Pool Buy Zones™ in Stock Bottom Formations Every Technical Trader and Retail Trader knows that Bottom Formations are often completed with a Momentum or Velocity Run, but few are able to capture those big gains because they are unable to recognize the candlestick patterns that precede the run. …
Traders Are Using Stock Chart Analysis Options Trading has suddenly become far more popular with Professional Traders and Smaller Funds, who are now learning to trade Options. This means that Retail Traders will find more trading volume and opportunities than what have been around previously. It is the Renaissance of …
Stock Indicators Transform Data into Histograms or Lines In the early days of Technical Analysis, Fundamentalists scoffed at the Technical Analysts who claimed that everything about a stock was right there in the stock chart. Price and how it moved was all that really mattered. Fundamentalists argued back that the …
How to Trade Stocks Without Listening to News Whenever I see a feature about a company on the front of a popular magazine or in the news, I am confident that the stock of that company is probably at an extreme and a very high risk for either a steep …
Look for New Technologies in Sector Groups Nearly every long-term investor wants to know about diversification for their portfolio. The classic “diversified portfolio” was not intended to be the best method to increase wealth for the individual investor portfolio. What it is designed to do is to protect an investor …
An Inner Calm and Focused Space Investing and trading is 50% learning and maintaining good skills as well as technique. The other half is controlling emotions, or what I call “being centered”. To me, being centered is to have an inner emotional space that remains calm and constant. This is …
Lists of Differences and Viewpoints Many Retail Traders assume that they are learning how to trade from a Professional Trader and that they are trading like a Professional Trader. This can pose inherent problems for the Retail Trader who is actually simply mimicking another Retail Trader. The Securities and Exchange …
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, …