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A number of years ago I did a survey of over 1,000 people who had replied to adds I placed in local newspapers advertising various stock market information. This is what I found out: over 73% admitted..

152: Arthur Hill on Goals, Style and Strategy

Before investing or trading, it is important to develop a strategy or game plan that is consistent with your goals and style. The ultimate goal is to make money (win), but there are many different met..

153: John Murphy's Ten Laws of Technical Trading

Which way is the market moving? How far up or down will it go? And when will it go the other way? These are the basic concerns of the technical analyst. Behind the charts and graphs and mathematical f..

154: Why Watch Market Indicators?

A common and effective way to gain perspective on stock price fluctuations is to compare the movement of your stocks to that of indices or market indicators. About 100 years ago, as the number of indi..

155: How to Make Money Shorting Stocks in Up and Down Markets

Now I am very much aware that many market players do not like to short stocks. This bias against the short side of the market is totally understandable, especially given the fact that the widespread r..

156: Avoiding Mistakes in Forex Trading

A difficult challenge facing a trader, and particularly those trading e-forex, is finding perspective. Achieving that in markets with regular hours is hard enough, but with forex, where prices are mov..

157: What Are Commonly Traded Securities

Stocks -- When you buy stocks you essentially own a little share of the company you just bought. The more shares you buy the more of the company you own.When the company whose shares you have bought m..

158: The Trend is Your Friend

We traders have to try to achieve a state of impartiality. We have to accept that we will have losses as readily as we will gains. Reaching a stage where you can comfortably accept losses, in the know..

159: The Flaw In Our Emotions

As humans we have a natural tendency to try and influence our surroundings and events we take part in. This is one reason as a species we have succeeded but it is also one of the fundamental flaws we ..

160: Momentum Trading

One of the most basic and widely used indicators is that of momentum. Before I go on to tell you how we can use the momentum indicator to trade with, I want to explain the difference between a leading..

161: The Mastery Of Self Trading

We do everything for a reason. The reason behind any act is, for the most part, unconscious. If we want to change a behaviour we need to identify the reason, the underlying objective, and examine it. ..

162: Intraday Trading Tactics

In this lesson I want to discuss intraday tactics that you should be aware of when you start to trade intraday.By intraday I mean very short time frames such as 1 minute, 5 minute and 15 minute charts..

163: High Low Breakout Technique

This technique can be used for any market that has a decent daily range. If you look at any chart, what do you see? You should see a succession of bars that are doing one of three things. 1. Going up..

164: Who Trades The Markets

Let's just clarify what is meant by the term trader, sometimes called retail trader or day trader.This is an individual who trades the financial market whatever they may be using their own money. They..

165: Understanding Stochastics

The foreign exchange markets move when some force makes one currency either more or less valuable than another. The cumulative purchase and sales of a currency cause it to move up or down and to becom..

166: Where To Place Your Trading Stop

Many traders have a problem defining where they should place their stop loss. They have no problem entering a trade but often have a problem defining where they should take profits or cut their loses...

167: Day Trading Strategy

A market that is trending up should have higher peaks and higher valleys. The majority of bars should also have higher highs and higher lows. In a down trend the market should have lower valleys and l..

168: Anticipating the Market and Execution

I divide trading skills into two distinct elements: anticipating the market and execution. The anticipating part is reading the market, whether through charts, systems, technical indicators or intuiti..

169: Option Trading: Thinking "Outside the Box"

Wouldn't it be great if we could buy an option with five months left until expiration and sell an option with 2 months left until expiration for the same price? You couldn't lose. Well we can't. I lov..

170: What is Simple Moving Average?

This is the most widely used and is simply calculated by adding up a set of values and dividing the total by the number in the set. This is the average. Movement of this average is effected by adding ..

171: What is Support and Resistance

It is very important to understand the concept of support and resistance.In up trends, every time price drops to the up trend line and then resume their advance, the trend line has acted as support to..

172: Exiting a Losing Trade

173: Forex Bid/Offer

Normally when you look at your charts you only see one price and that price is the bid price. Some types of charting software are capable of displaying the offer price but most commonly the price you ..

174: Understanding Forex Trends

Trend is the easiest and the most difficult thing to understand. The difficulty arises because of the time factor. Whenever we talk of trend it has to be related to the context of time.An intraday (re..

175: Building a Forex Trading System

About two weeks ago I got an email from a trader explaining his trading method and asking me for some advice on how to improve on it. On the surface of it, there wasn't much to his approach but he had..

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