According to Thomas Bulkowski, the best performing and also most likely to be profitable chart patterns are: bullish flags that are high and tight that breakout to the upside and complex head and shoulders top chart patterns with breakouts to the downside. His picks are based on his exhaustive research and backtesting price action on […]
Jesse Livermore was an early innovator in the trading world as one of the first traders to create a trading plan and a system. He basically invented price action trading and trend following in the early 20th century. He had higher highs and lower lows than most people can even imagine, he both became wealthy […]
Heikin Ashi candlestick charts are a different variation of traditional Japanese candlesticks. Heikin Ashi candlesticks use the opening and closing price data from the previous period and also the opening-high-low-closing price data from the current period to build a combination candlestick. The Heikin Ashi formula candlestick filters out a lot of the price action noise […]
In technical analysis a Fibonacci retracement is a trading methodology for determining high probability support and resistance levels on a chart. It uses the Fibonacci sequence and that is where its name comes from. A Fibonacci retracement uses the theory that price swings on charts will usually retrace and backfill a mathematical portion of a […]
It is easy to become obsessed with adding to our trading arsenal with knowledge, books, chart patterns, indicators, moving averages, and gurus, that we forget to analyze what we need to remove from our plan. One of the largest determining factors as to whether a new trader ends up as a winning trader, is how […]
The hardest thing about trading is not the math, the method, or the stock picking. It is dealing with the emotions that arise with trading itself along with the ego’s need to be right. From the stress of entering a trade, to the fear of losing the open paper profits that you are holding in […]
Yes, this is risk management. Without proper risk management, your trading strategy based on levels, indicators, patterns, etc.will not make any sense.Any trading strategy should be supported by strict risk management, where the maximum allowable losses per transaction and the risk ratio are observed:the profit is always more than 1/2. You don’t have to be […]
What were the greatest trades of all time? Here is the list of the who, what, when, where, and how of the greatest trades in the financial markets were made While the risk management of executing many of these trades is not what many traders would want, we can see many of these as trend […]
I never understood why traders held losing trades for too long. Our goal is to make money, isn’t it? And yet, we’ve all held onto something negative for too long; a losing trade for a few days, a bad marriage for a decade, smoking for a couple of decades, or any number of other things […]
“ I always laugh at people who say “I’ve never met a rich technician” I love that! Its such an arrogant, nonsensical response. I used fundamentals for 9 years and got rich as a technician.” – Marty Schwartz Many people believe technical analysis is complete silliness. How can someone make money on lines and patterns […]