Keeping a Trading Journal
a Trading Journal is nothing more than a log of transactions but an effective Trading Journal can help one evaluate and educate themselves on trading.
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How Much Should you Trade When you Trade?
First off, let’s start off by looking at position sizing. Position sizing, in its most basic aspect, is the dollar amount being invested in any security on any trade. Every successful trader will have pre-determined rules for their trading account.
Indicators on Indicators: The Next Step in Analysis
Traders and analysts have been developing market indicators for decades. Many of these indicators are simply measuring the same idea in only a slightly different way since most indicators are based on the same limited amount of market information.
A Different Way To Own Gold?
With gold dominating headlines today, you might be wondering how to own the mysterious yellow metal. After 11 years of gains, many investors are beginning to understand the logic professed by gold bugs throughout this bull market.Â
How to Profit from Market Retracements
A trader’s main job is to organize market information into an identifiable sequence, providing an edge. This edge is the result of a statistical advantage from a given set of trades over time.
Seasonality: Do Stocks Really Go Up In January?
Many Wall Street pundits have been talking about the Santa Claus rally and the January Effect. In both cases, stocks are expected to go higher based upon a seasonal pattern.
Spotting Stock Market Winners
The stock market, big winners unfold over years and could be a valuable core holding in a trading account.
Are Stocks and Bonds Really Different?
In the long-term, investors in stocks and bonds have different goals but the performance of the two investments has been about the same over the past thirty years.