Day Trading Tips and Tricks

You must have the right trading system to guide you in the intensively competitive environments you will find in the futures, forex and equities markets. The challenge in creating a viable trading system is it takes more than simply finding the… Read More »

When faced with a bad trade that isn’t working, there is the potential for a severe blow to your psyche. However, with a little effort and the right trading software you can regularly turn things round. Here are 7 pointers to… Read More »

What’s the difference between a Weatherman and a Trader? I asked this question in a private user group a little while ago and stumped quite a few people. Do you know the difference? On the surface, they seem the same, but… Read More »

Like a resolute magician, day trading indicators can help a futures trader or stock investor interpret specific patterns in the market and uncover reasonable future expectations of the market price. Using time-sensitive technical indicators along with understanding price and volume, savvy… Read More »

Looking at the Markets Through a “Big Picture” Lens The first step to good market analysis is the easiest of the steps to do, yet it is surprising how few traders actually do it. The first step to analyzing a… Read More »

One of the toughest challenges in trading is “listening” to or identifying market direction. Regularly we are almost convinced to recklessly predict instead of identifying market direction. Or, we suspect we already know what’s going to occur, so we simply… Read More »

“The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge It.” –  © 1962 Ludwig Von Mises (1881 – 1973) What makes day traders different is that they are able to participate without bias, without question, and… Read More »

5 Reasons you Can Take a Break from Trading A day trading holiday like Thanksgiving, Christmas, Memorial Day, Labor Day, and the 4th of July can make day trading the markets even more challenging than usual.  For whatever reason, the… Read More »

Are You and Your Trading Systems Ready for Success? If you plan on working with a day trading system, determining whether or not you’re ready to make the leap involves some serious introspection. When you learn day trading, it’s easy to… Read More »

High Frequency Trading in a Coffee Shop Lately, my wife and I have been taking a date night to the coffee shop – with our laptops.  We both share over achiever geeky work ethics.  But, after twenty years of marriage,… Read More »