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 […]
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The jade lizard is an option play that is created by opening a bearish vertical spread using call options and adding a put option sold at a strike price lower than the call spread strike prices. Using one underlying stock with the same expiration date, the jade lizard strategy buys a call option at one […]
The Monty Hall problem is a brain teaser, in the form of a probability puzzle, loosely based on the American television game show Let’s Make a Deal and named after its original host, Monty Hall. The problem was originally posed (and solved) in a letter by Steve Selvin to the American Statistician in 1975. It […]
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 […]
Here are the Elliott Wave Theory rules showing how each wave tends to work out in comparison to past waves, the key correlations with the Fibonacci levels. and approximately the percentage of time that price tends to stay inside each Fibonacci level. This is a quick reference cheat sheet for those wanting to track Elliott […]
What is an edge in trading? An edge in trading is simply a process that allows your winning trades to add up to more than your losing trades do over the long term. An edge can be that your winning trades are so large that they make up for your losing trades and more to […]
Bitcoin , time for 2nd wave down?I think BTC should take SL of bulls before any rise