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  • A Better Trend

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How can a trend be better? Here's a unique approach to viewing trends so you can gain the most from them.

  • A Stochastic Breakout In December Coffee: Better Late On The Break Than Never

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A BOSO play in the stochastic helps traders climb on board a fast-moving market post-breakout.

  • A better way to smooth data by J.S. Payne, Ph.D.

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A better way to smooth data by J.S. Payne, Ph.D. What every trader desires is indicators that give strong signals with no misleading period-to period jitter, or noise. We all know what noise is to a trader, but let's restate it. Noise is something in yo

  • Are Two Channels Better Than One? by Stephane Reverre

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Are Two Channels Better Than One? by Stéphane Reverre This author tested two channels based on Bollinger Bands around a standard moving average and an application of the capital asset pricing model, and discovered that a combination of the two performs

  • Better Entries

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Does waiting for a pullback when entering a trade improve results, or does that just cause you to miss out on the trade? What about other popular entry methods? Here's a test to find out what may work best

  • Better Living Through Chemistry

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...While most stocks slid sideways in December 2005, pharmaceutical stocks -- as measured by the PPH -- soared.

  • Better Returns With Single-Stock Futures by Jeffrey P. Seyler

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Better Returns With Single-Stock Futures by Jeffrey P. Seyler What exactly are they, and how can we use them to our advantage? Launched on November 8, 2002, security futures products have been watched by many but traded by few. The reasons for this var

  • Better Than The Exchange Traded Fund

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Exchange traded funds are designed to follow the indexes. Here is a product that could be an ETF, but performs better.

Better Trade Management With Candlesticks by Tracy Knudsen, CMT

  • Better Trading With Risk Control by Daryl Guppy

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Better Trading With Risk Control by Daryl Guppy How do you improve your trading results? Risk management, of course. Understanding how the tools of technical analysis work and how they are applied makes a big difference to your initial trading results.

  • Build A Better Moving Average

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Is it possible to have a moving average that minimizes zigzags and powers through the occasional price spike?

  • Building A Better Bottom

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In the days after the market meltdown, the Standard & Poor's 500 continues to forge a bottom from oversold conditions and positive divergences.

  • Building A Better Breakout

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How Donchian channels can help separate great, don't-look-back breakouts from merely good ones.

  • Combo Deals Are Better

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading decisions can be simplified if both psychological and mechanical aspects of price action are understood. A combination of candlesticks and Western oscillators does that job well.

  • FOURlER ANALYSIS! IN A NUTSHELL FASTER and BETTER by Anthony Warren Ph.D.

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...FOURlER ANALYSIS! IN A NUTSHELL FASTER and BETTER by Anthony Warren Ph.D. For those individuals who are currently using Fourier Spectrum analysis, this article describes some techniques that make the analysis easier to perform and the spectral plots eas

  • Fibonacci Confluence With Other Tools Provide Better Trading Signals

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Examining Fibonacci levels and confirming technical tools.

  • In Search Of A Better RSI

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The relative strength index has long been a standard tool for technical analysts. Here, we introduce a new version of it, named the RSING, that offers several important improvements

  • Individual Traders Manage Risk Better

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How can individual traders manage risk?

  • Individual Traders Manage Risk Better

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How can individual traders manage risk?

  • Information Bias, Or Why More Is Not Necessarily Better

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Information bias is a cognitive bias which leads us to believe that more information is better or complexity is preferable to simplicity. Sometimes we collect information which is ultimately irrelevant to the decision we are trying to make but we feel mo

  • Infrastructure ETFs--Building A Better, Stronger America

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Are you interested in learning more about using exchange traded funds (ETFs) in your trading? Leslie N. Masonson, an active ETF trader, is president of Cash Management Resources, a financial consulting firm that focuses on ETF strategies. He is the autho

  • Interview: Better Trading With Rob Hoffman

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Rob Hoffman is founder and CEO of BecomeABetterTrader.com. Hoffman has participated in numerous international and domestic trading competitions with 19 wins and is a frequent speaker at brokerage firms and financial exchanges. He is an educator and a pas

  • Options & COT: WTI's Recent Correction Could Be Better Understood Through Its Derivatives

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In this article, we examine significant futures and options positioning along with historical seasonality driving WTI price action.

  • SVU A Better Buy At Lower Prices?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Shares of Supervalu, a major regional grocery chain, have been falling for the past three months. Is a turnaround finally at hand?

  • The DJIA Signals Better Days Ahead

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The DJIA has had a nice run from its March low, but does the move have longevity? The DJIA chart indicates there should be plenty more upside.

  • Things Are Going Better For Coke

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A large head and shoulders formation in the making gives a possible buy signal for those willing to take a risk.

  • Three Signals Are Better Than One

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Correlating signals in multiple time frames increases the odds of a successful trade. Selecting a quality setup, like a reversal chart pattern in a micro time frame along with it, offers a trader endless opportunities to create wealth and protect capital

  • Using Bollinger Bands For Better Technical Analysis

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Harness the power of John Bollinger's work in ways you may not currently be taking advantage of

  • Warehousing Data For Better Trading Systems by Joseph M. Fisher, M.D.,Ph.D.

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Warehousing Data For Better Trading Systems by Joseph M. Fisher, M.D., Ph.D. Technically based trading systems are generally back-tested with tens to hundreds of entry signals. Here's a method to develop robust trading systems using more than 2.5 milli

  • Which Is Better: The N-Day Breakout Or The Swing Breakout?

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here's a study that compares the classic method of using swing highs and lows for trading signals versus a modern approach of signals based on new highs and lows over a given number of days. Which will you choose

  • Winning Is Nice, Profits Are Better

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Digging through your trade system stats may help you decide if a given system is a good fit for your trading style.

  • With Wilder's ParaSar System, Simpler Is Better

    ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Looking for a trading methodology that takes away much of the stress of pulling the trigger? J. Welles Wilder's unique ParaSar system might be just what you're looking for.

Working Money: Building A Better Breakout by David Penn







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