Day Trading Tips and Tricks

You Shouldn’t!  Before we go any further, make sure the kids aren’t reading this because I may have to resort to killing Santa Claus before the article is over. Now that I have shattered some of your dreams let me… Read More »

Day Trading Futures: Using Stop Loss Orders Stop loss orders (also referred to as a stop-loss, or stops) is a tool that is used to exit a trade once its movement begins to lose money. Anytime the market starts to… Read More »

Back to the Basics… with NinjaTrader Indicators Whether you are starting out in the trading game or a veteran trader, finding and honing the best technical analysis indicators is always important. Choose wisely and you’ve built a solid foundation for… Read More »

Here is a partial list of a pre-market trading checklist. Ask yourself: What is apparent before the opening?  Any relevant announcements or economic data, news stories, or carry over momentum from Asian and European trading. What are your expectations with… Read More »

You wouldn’t embark on our day trading journey if we thought you were going to lose money.  I think only the most masochistic of gamblers gets into day trading specifically to blow up their trading account.  After only a bit… Read More »

IndicatorWarehouse Reviews Someone emailed me this past week accusing Indicator Warehouse of having fake testimonials! Yikes! His reasoning was because there were “too many good testimonials”. I felt like we were being punished for doing a great job.  How crazy is… Read More »

When people use the term “day trading”, they mean the act of buying and selling stocks, commodities, or foreign currencies within the same day. Day traders seek to make profits by leveraging large amounts of capital to take advantage of small… Read More »

Twenty four hundred years ago, Plato, one of  history’s most famous thinkers, said life is like being chained up in a cave forced to watch shadows on a stone wall. This made me think of all the false truths fed to self-directed retail… Read More »

Creativity, perfection, and cheating the impossible. I recently watched this inspiring Ted talk by Philippe Petit (high wire artist and death-defying magician).  He is the real-life person that inspired the recent the movie The Walk, the docudrama of his amazing real-life… Read More »

Get an Edge and Trade Multiple Contracts When day trading futures, traders often enter and exit multiple contracts at the same time, in the same day. This situation is not limited to futures contracts; traders can choose other instruments to… Read More »