Markets move in cycles. Not every market is the same day after day. Opportunities exist but in small quantities. In times of uncertainty, opportunities are even less. We all invest in conditions where uncertainty is the norm. Probabilities are the only kn...

When traders start out, it's completely overwhelming the amount of things to learn and suck in. The simple to the most complex: the computer, the trading software, the markets, the strategies, indicators, psychology, capital, time. On top of that, traders...

Daytrading is a very difficult endeavor for anyone who's tried it. Those who go through it day after day will agree that everyday is different and that each day requires maximum attention. The end of each trading day leaves the daytraders exhausted. But n...

All traders have gone through a period they wished they never placed the trades. It could be impulsive and emotional factor that drove the trader to commit these trades. These are trades that he wished he can forget forever and hope to never repeat them s...

When a trader starts his new venture into trading or investing, he finds out many things that need to be learned, understood and used as part of his tools to become successful. One of the useful tools in many trading software is the use of stop loss order...

There are lots of signal services, newsletters, and trading rooms offering predictions for the coming days, weeks and months ahead on what the market is going to do. It's a very tempting proposition to give subscribers a peace of mind on what the market i...

Day traders are a special breed of animals from the investors and swing or position traders. To them, there is a routine throughout the day they notice and take advantage of them. Each segment of the trading hours has special meaning. When it comes tradin...

We have heard it: the market is not driven by money but by greed and fear. The two biggest emotions that move markets up and down at random; they seem to fluctuate without any logic behind them. Why do we get these emotions when we trade? After all, it...

We all have it and go through it one time or another and will continue to go through it. For others, drawdowns are more common than profit run-ups. Or worse, each drawdown is worse than the last. It's a never-ending cycle where these holes appear in our e...

When Stan Weinstein was first featured in the famous book, "Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders", by Jack Schwager, he stood out as a trader with the highest win/loss ratio. He finally revealed his method in his only book, "Secrets For Profiting i...

Most traders go day to day trading on the fly, take a position when it "feels right", especially in the heat of the moment when prices are just moving without them. Not preparing for what lies ahead for the day, week or month can be a costly endeavor. Man...

Most of us are quite comfortable with investing in cash deposits, government bonds, and stocks for conservative risk-averse investors. We hear these products discussed widely in the financial media. But rarely do we hear commodities discussed as an invest...

Gaps are a common occurance in the markets. Everyday there is always at least one stock that has gapped up or down when the market opens. Why? As long there is some event happening somewhere between the market close of the previous day to the opening of t...

When a trader finds a new strategy using a new indicator, what does he do with it? Does he just observe it for a few weeks and see if he can get a feel for it? Or just straight out trade it in real time and see how verify its profitability by seeing if th...