ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Determining Balance Points In Crowd Psychology by Carl Gyllenram Balance points, the pivotal points between the swings of the bulls and the bears, turn out to be excellent ways to determine market moods and to spot breakouts from a trading range. Peop
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Determining Capital Amounts for Trading by Ajay Jani Last month, Ajay Jani covered several topics crucial to developing a comprehensive trading plan, including the importance of portfolio level simulations and the ability to use risk-reduction strategie
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Determining Equity Growth Performance by John F. Ehlers and Mike Barna What are the merits of using technical analysis trading systems? Evaluate them here. Technical analysts have the option of trading with either discretionary or systematic techniques
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Determining Leverage For Trading Systems by John Kean When your trading's going your way, you're apt to think about leveraging your trading based on your success in hindsight. However, leveraging can be a two-edged sword when it comes to profits and dra
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Determining Optimal Risk by Ed Seykota and Dave Druz Seasoned traders know the importance of risk management. If you risk little, you win little. If you risk too much, you eventually run to ruin. The optimum, of course, is somewhere in the middle. Here,
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Assessing the risk of being in the markets is a topic that always looms large with investors. What are some ways to calculate and assess it, and what place should each method have in your work? Here's a look at the most important and commonly used measur
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Price can be as crazy, but if you know how to determine who has control of price, you'll know what direction to trade in despite volatile price action.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Determining stock value from price and earnings by Paul T. Holliday The value of stocks and stock indices are generally derived from such fundamentals as earnings and return on investment. The value that investors place on a stock or stock index may als
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...DETERMINING GROWTH RATE One method for determining a growth rate is to fit a regression line using the least-squares method to the data. Figure 1 is a graph of the annual dividends for Merck & Company with a regression line drawn. This straight line is c
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...When trading trends, it's common wisdom that "the trend is your friend." Recognizing trends as early as possible is the key to finding these "friends" for larger profits. The average directional movement index (ADX) can be an exc
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Once you've identified and predicted the current market trend, you must decide whether it's time to enter the market, exit the market, or abstain from the market altogether. Looking at a security's relative strength or weakness in compari