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  • Advance-Decline Line Basics by Daniel E. Downing

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Advance-Decline Line Basics by Daniel E. Downing It never hurts to refresh your memory on the basics. Here's a primer on following the advance-decline line for the stock market. A stock investor who has just begun to analyze the stock market using tech

  • Back To Basics

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Is the stock market at the bottom and ready to start a new bull market, or is the stock market bottom still ahead of us? Let's go back to the basics of technical analysis to answer this question.

  • Back To Basics In Trading Stocks by Gregory J. Kuhn

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Back To Basics In Trading Stocks by Gregory J. Kuhn Identifying the once or twice a year that the market is ready to embark on a very profitable move is the ultimate quest of anyone trading stocks. But in this day and age of artificial intelligence, wit

  • Back To Basics?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...As tech gets toppy, will the rotation turn toward basic materials stocks for the upside?

  • Back to Basics With Quantitative Analysis by Anthony J. Macek

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Back to Basics With Quantitative Analysis by Anthony J. Macek Ever notice how we seem to want to do things the hard way? Anthony Macek, publisher of the ""Just the Facts"" newsletter, has, and he's proposed a solution to simplify our lives using quantit

  • Basics For Exit Strategies

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The most important part of a trade is knowing when to exit with a profit. Here's an overview of basic considerations for devising exit strategies.

  • Chart Reading Basics

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Reading charts, as you might have heard, is subjective. Here's how the novice can learn more about making it less so.

  • Day Trading Basics Part 1

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The first thing to do before making any trading decisions, whether it is day trading or position trading, is to study the general picture of the market. Your objective should be to trade with the direction of the market. Once you determine this, the ne

  • Day Trading Basics, Part 2

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...It's impossible to sift through all the stocks traded on the exchange, so you need a method to identify the stocks with the greatest momentum.

  • Day Trading Basics, Part 3

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...If you are at the right place at the right time, you can take advantage of good trades.

  • Get A Hold On Investing Volume Basics

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How is volume used in technical analysis and what can it tell us?

  • Intraday Swing Trading Basics

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Does "intraday swing trading" sound like a contradiction in terms? Well, it may actually not be because it combines the best of both worlds. Find out how this approach can solve some of the trouble spots of both daytrading and swing trading and ultimatel

Market Profile Basics by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan

  • Position Sizing Basics

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Are you giving enough consideration to this very important part of the trading equation?

  • Price Action And The Basics Of Trading

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The great Green Bay Packers coach, Vince Lombardi, was a big believer in the drilling of basics to his players. For traders, a solid foundation in trading fundamentals is just as invaluable.

  • Returning To The Basics by John Sweeney

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Returning To The Basics by John Sweeney Since November last year, I've gone through exploiting the trend-related activities -- trading the underlying trend, adding trades to the trend trades and reversing trades when wrong about the trend -- but there's t

  • SIDEBAR: The basics by Technical Analysis, Inc.

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...SIDEBAR: The basics by Technical Analysis, Inc. There is a special vocabulary of options trading that must be mastered in order to understand the uses of options and communicate with brokers and other option traders. An option is a legal contract that

  • Signal Processing Basics by Glenn A. Barlis

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Signal Processing Basics by Glenn A. Barlis This is the second of a series of articles that examine stock price analysis using the mathematical methods of signal processing. Here you will learn about tools for detecting trends and smoothing them. In t

  • Signal Processing Basics by Glenn Barlis

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Signal Processing Basics by Glenn Barlis This is the first of a series of articles that examine stock price analysis using the mathematical methods of signal processing. These concepts will enable you to better understand popular indicators and incorpor

Signal Processing Basics, Part 3 by Glenn A. Barlis

  • The Basics Of Developing A Neural Trading System by Lou Mendelsohn

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Basics Of Developing A Neural Trading System by Lou Mendelsohn As traders begin to experiment with and apply artificial neural systems to financial forecasting, there are pitfalls to avoid in the design and training of these systems so this new tech

  • The Basics Of Managing Money by Robert P. Rotella

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Basics Of Managing Money by Robert P. Rotella A trader can score that one big win, but it's all for naught if he can't hold onto his profits. Money management is the step both before and after trading, the study of risk and reward and how best to ut

  • The Basics Of Moving Averages by George R. Arrington, Ph.D.

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Basics Of Moving Averages by George R. Arrington, Ph.D. Moving averages are one of the most common technical tools that technicians, both veteran and novice, may take advantage of. But for those novices, the concept may be somewhat confusing. What i

  • The Basics of Managing Money by Mark Vakkur, M.D.

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Why is money management one of the first items that profes-sional traders stress? Why would you think? Here's an overview of risk and several simple mechanical approaches to money management. Preserving capital is essential to a trader's long-term survi

  • The Very Basics Of Technical Analysis

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A mini-refresher course on the very basics of technical analysis.

  • Trading Forex: Understanding The Basics, Part 1

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In this first part of a new series on foreign exchange trading, you'll get an overview of the basics of trading currencies.

  • Trading System Basics, Following Momentum

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Generally speaking, the most reliable, profitable, and long-lasting trading systems are built around one or two proven concepts. Follow along as we seek to create a winning system, using ordinary trading indicators that are combined in an especially effe

  • Trendline Basics by Martin Pring

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trendline Basics by Martin Pring The trend of prices is the feature that is most sought after in technical analysis, yet surprisingly simple constructs can get you right with the market. Here, veteran trader and analyst Martin Pring takes you through th

  • Volume Basics by Martin J.Pring

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Volume Basics by Martin J.Pring How is volume used in technical analysis and what can it tell us? Most of the indicators used in technical analysis are based on pricing data. We either use the prices themselves, a statistical manipulation of the prices

Working Money: Chart Reading Basics by John Devcic






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