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Capturing Trend Days

TradersLog — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 18:07:00 +0000

A trend day occurs when there is an expansion in the daily trading range and the open and close are near opposite extremes. The first half-hour of trading often comprises less than 10% of the day’s total range; there is usually very little intraday price retracement.

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Tape Reading

Linda Bradford Raschke — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 18:48:10 +0000

Sometimes it is nice to reexamine a simple concept when there appears to be overwhelming volatility in the markets. Mechanical systems and patterns are helpful and even necessary for the structure they impose in organizing data, but even Richard Dennis in his original course discussed ways to “anticipate” entry signals, exit trades early, and filter out “bad” trades.

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Volatility Breakout Systems

Linda Bradford Raschke — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:06:43 +0000

Breakout systems can actually be considered another form of swing trading, (which is a style of short term trading designed to capture the next immediate move). In other words, the trader is not concerned with any long term forecast or analysis, only the immediate price action.

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Trader Linda Raschke Provides Tips on Day-Trading S&P

Jim Wyckoff — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:00:00 +0000

The S&P 500 futures market is a trading arena unto itself, which can accommodate many different trading styles, according to Linda Bradford Raschke, a well known trader, lecturer and president of LBR Group, Inc.

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Time Tested Classic Trading Rules for the Modern Trader to Follow

Linda Bradford Raschke — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:58:56 +0000

This is a list of classic trading rules that was given to me while on the trading floor in 1984. A senior trader collected these rules from classic trading literature throughout the twentieth century. They obviously withstand the age-old test of time.

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The Mental Aspect of Trading

Linda Bradford Raschke — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:53:51 +0000

By Linda Raschke Many traders quickly come to acknowledge that despite being familiar with winning strategies, systems, and money management techniques, trading success is dependent on your psychological state of mind. If you’re a trader just starting out, where do you find the initial confidence to pull the trigger? How do you deal with the

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Swing Trading: Rules and Philosophy

Linda Bradford Raschke — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:48:04 +0000

My style is based on the "Taylor Trading Technique", a short-term method for trading daily price movements that relies entirely on odds and percentages . It is a method as opposed to a system. Very few people can blindly follow a system, though many find it easier to be discretionary in a systematic way.

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Buying New Momentum Highs

Linda Bradford Raschke — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:04:23 +0000

Much has been written about the use of momentum oscillators in highlighting retracements in a trend or momentum divergences. This article will show an entirely different way that momentum oscillators can be used.

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