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The In And Out Of Stock Trading

November 7, 2011

“Know your out before you get in”

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A Different Kind of Financial Widget – Defeating Doubt

October 20, 2011
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Even if you aren’t interested in becoming a stock trader or trading better this video is still a “must watch”.

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Hey, Buddy! Can You Spare A Dime?

September 18, 2011

The last little piece of advice he gave me was that when I understood the reasoning that drove traders to talk this way I would really be ready to trade on my own.

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Echos In The Stock Market

September 11, 2011

“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”–Mark Twain

It’s just an echo – echo – echo… 

Noting the trading patterns emerging from the last month or so I just have to point out that they are still on track to repeat 2008.  Not the precise picture or words but certainly the rhyme and reasons.

In Dead Cat Bounce or Everything OK Now?, I speculated that the market had another bounce in it that would soon come to an end.  I’d just like to state another related observation:  NFL scores should have as much consistency.  It’d make running a fantasy sports leagues a lot easier.

 

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Technical Indicators – Williams %R Indicator

December 31, 2010

There are some technical indicators I use every day.  The Williams %R is one of them.  I’ve modified the base period to fit the stock (ETF) that I follow and the ;  that being the Q’s (symbol: QQQQ).  One more modification that I’ve made is that rather than just using the -20% and -80% as breaking points I also use the middle line of -50% coupled with different time periods to indicate direction and momentum.  Since the base period varies for every individual stock I’ll let you figure out what base period I use for the Q’s.  As a clue, I call it WD50.

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Deja Vu, Deux Do

October 1, 2010

Yesterday I took on the strategy that if the market was up at the open I would buy the downside in the form of more puts to compliment the ones I left on overnight.  Today the same strategy gave me the same results.

I don’t like leaving an open position on overnight but it seems that it seems to be working.  You may want to learn about the technical indicators I’m using.  I’m not going to give you all the information.  Just consider this a homework assignment.

The two indicators that seem to be playing out well in today’s market are “Polarized Fractal Efficiency” and “TRIX”.  You may be able to learn of these at Stockcharts.com.  They have an awesome chart school, free of charge.

I’m using them on a daily chart and comparing the two’s interaction.  Very interesting.

Got questions?  Just ask.

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Trading Update and Review – 9/7/10

September 7, 2010

What I wrote on 9/1/10

Just a real quick update on the puts I bought Monday.

I’m still in them. I had some problems with my trading platform and should have dumped them before now but I’m currently near break-even and my indicators are not saying that the Q’s are going to break above this level so I’m going to stay in them for a little while and see what develops.

Patrick

Here it is just one week after writing the above post.  It’s  a good time to review

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Reviewing Is A Necessary Skill

September 3, 2010

“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”

- Mark Twain

Every day I use support and resistance lines to read trader sentiment.  Recognizing these is an essential trader skill.  It works in the short-term and the long-term and so is a necessary skill for investors as well.  This same skill is also applied when reviewing my trades.  There is no replacement.  It’s in my trading plan.

Constant and Persistent Review

When a trader reviews his trades he learns to

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TRIX Indicator – A Financial Widgets Mainstay

August 20, 2010

The video below will help you understand a technical indicator that I employ on every trade I’ve ever done in the Trading To A Million (TTAM) portfolio.  Indicators tend to be rotated through one’s trading style.  Either because everyone starts using the same indicators and they become ineffective, or a indicator is best applied to a specific timeframe that doesn’t match the timeframe someone is currently trading.  That was a mouthful.

There are a few indicators that I’ve found to be useful for any type of trading and for any timeframe.  This is one of those indicators.  If you only could learn one indicator between now and Monday morning trading this should be it.

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On Bad Advice

August 20, 2010

It is profitable to filter out the advice but using the velocity, volume and pitch to measure the stock market’s mood can be very profitable.

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