Category Archives: Day Trading

Finding Good Sources of Day Trading Information
Aside from the charts, you get off of your online trading software, some of the best Sources of trading information about indicators for stocks and futures trading will come from the media, both big media, and independent media. As a… + More

Choosing the Right NinjaTrader Day Trading System
Ah, the “system”, this is everyone’s favorite topic. There are several factors that need to be considered when choosing a day trading solution. If you are a new trader, you will want to start with the basics of trading, and then… + More

Plato’s Allegory of the Cave… and the Truth about Trading
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… + More

Day Trading Challenges and How to Overcome Them
How Changing Things Up can Help I hear it all the time: “I’m getting killed trading oil”, “I’m not consistent with the ES”, “I’ve been trading Binary Options and I keep losing money”; the list is endless. Day after day… + More

Good Losses and Bad Wins
In the world of trading, winning is the goal right? And when we take the loss, we made a mistake right? Note quite… sometimes wins are bad, and losses can be good. Some of you will be able to connect with… + More

Futures Trading Software and the K.I.S.S. Principle
Futures Trading Software – Simple can be Better K.I.S.S. is an acronym for “Keep it simple, stupid”. The K.I.S.S. principle states that most systems work best if they are kept simple rather than made complicated; therefore simplicity should be a… + More

How Can Diversification Improve Day Your Trading?
Think of taking a winning investment portfolio strategy and using it as a day trader. Trading just One Market using only one or two contracts is a slow road to failure. The trick is to be able to scan hundreds of markets in futures,… + More

Sometimes Less is More – The Overtrading Trap
Most traders think they need to trade a lot to make a lot of money. I once counseled a fellow who wanted to be a “scalper.” He thought he had to trade 100 times a day. Imagine his disappointment when I… + More

Learn the Top 10 Tools for “Listening” to the Stock Market
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… + More

Improve Your Trading Personality by Overcoming Stubbornness
A Trading Personality Focused on Pig-Headedness has No Place in Trading When it comes to improving your day trading results, learning to recognize and overcome your stubbornness can make you a better trader. The single biggest part of ever becoming… + More