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DownloadA Candlestick Strategy With Soldiers And Crows
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Traders want to get in earlier and have more frequent trading opportunities. Here are two patterns that can point you in that direction
A Channel-Based Forex Trading Strategy Guide
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here is a trading strategy you can consider adopting for forex trading or other markets, in addition to some smart guidelines for using this or any other trading strategy. This trading strategy requires only two color-differentiated channels on a chart,
A Cryptocurrency Scalping Strategy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here is a short-term and easy trend-following trading strategy for you to consider and to test for yourself. It uses a 5-minute chart for execution and a 1-hour chart for short-term trend identification
A Flexible Strategy For Volatile Markets by John Manley
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A Flexible Strategy For Volatile Markets by John Manley Profit from option spreads on the S&P 500 by applying the same tactic as you would playing chess. Here's how. Good chess players are always focusing on a couple of moves in advance of the current
A Gold Momentum Strategy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Given that the S&P 500 has had a good run from 2009 to present, its volatility is expected to increase. Here's an investing strategy to allow you to diversify over simply holding the market, and how you can backtest it
A Look at Spiders Using the Red/Green Strategy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...SPIDERS (SPY) or SPDRs are the first index shares created by Amex and introduced in 1993. They are Standard & Poor's Depository Receipts and as such, reflect the movement of the S&P Index. They trade just like common stock under the symbol
A Low-Risk, High-Potential Return Option Strategy by Jean-Olivier Fraisse, C.F.A.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A Low-Risk, High-Potential Return Option Strategy by Jean-Olivier Fraisse, C.F.A. Can call options be used as a substitute for purchasing stocks? Covered calls -- selling a call on stock being held -- is one low-risk strategy, but profits can be limited o
A New Exit Strategy by Adam White
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A New Exit Strategy by Adam White Most traders search for entry signals for trading systems and use a reversal of the entry signal for exits. Sounds simple enough, right? But what about developing exit strategies separate from your entry method? Here, t
A Nondirectional Trading Strategy For Cryptocurrencies Part 2
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...is a trading strategy you can use whether the cryptocurrency being traded is falling or rising. Here in the second part of a two-part series, the focus is altcoins
A Nondirectional Trading Strategy For Cryptocurrencies, Part 1
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Crypto markets can move faster and more predictably than other markets, so these markets are attractive to traders. Here is a trading strategy you can use whether the cryptocurrency being traded is falling or rising. Here in part 1, the focus is bitcoin
A Pivot Point Trading Strategy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Pivot points project where price may change course. They can be calculated with simple arithmetic. Here is a basic trading strategy based on pivot points to use in the crypto or other trending markets
A Range-Bound Strategy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Markets move in trends and markets move in trading ranges. Looking at any chart makes it plain to see that a trader can make money during trends, but we shouldn't rule out the possibility of making successful trades during trading ranges. Here's how one
A Seasonal Strategy With Leveraged ETFs
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Halloween indicator, also known as ""Sell in May and go away,"" is a well-known seasonal strategy that investors apply to the financial markets. But it comes with its share of risk. Here is how you can use this seasonal strategy with a twist using le
A Simple Forex Trend-Following Strategy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A strategy need not be complicated. The strategy given here is for swing trades in the forex market
A Simple Hedge Strategy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...When the market turns bearish, either close out your portfolio or hedge it in the options or futures market. These strategies are normally for players who know what they are doing, are experienced and have been able to open an options or futures account
A Simple Option Strategy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading options has always been a mystery to many, but with all the new weeklys and binary options that are hitting the market, they are now a strategy that should be looked at.
A Simple Positive Expectancy Strategy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Do you want your trading results to improve? Incorporating positive expectancy into your trading strategy may just be the ticket
A Simple Rotation Strategy With Sector ETFs
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here is a portfolio rebalancing technique that's simple enough for an individual trader to perform on a monthly basis
A Simple Short-Term Entry Strategy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Legendary trader Marty Schwarz swore by the 10-day EMA. Here's an application of his "red light/green light" approach on an intraday basis.
A Strategy For Investing In Exchange Traded Funds
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Because exchange traded funds are traded rather than redeemed, they are more tax efficient than mutual funds. Here is a strategy you can play with to invest in them.
A Strategy For The Nasdaq 100 Using Options Sentiment
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Can the put/call ratio be used to time entries and exits in the stock market? We take a look
A Strategy For Trading Seasonal And Non-Seasonal Markets
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...If you can see a seasonal or non-seasonal pattern, you may be able to profit from it. Here is an example of how to find and exploit patterns
An FX Strategy For Catching Falling Knives
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...When there's a considerable decline in a relatively short period of time, can that become a trading opportunity? It's all about timing, and you can't rush it. Here's how to go about it
Applying The JM Strategy To Torrent Energy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...With the price of oil appearing to settle at the $50 level, all companies involved in energy have come under the spotlight.
August Rundown And Strategy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...July's weakness may carry over into August, but will it cause a decline or signal a rally into the end of 2011?
Backtesting A Mean-Reversion Strategy In Python
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...You hear the term "mean reversion" thrown around a lot. What does it really mean and how can you create a mean-reversion strategy you can backtest? Here's a step-by-step gui
Bombardier B Shares and the Red/Green Trading Strategy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Another look at a trading methodology based on historical highs and lows.
Boost Your Strategy Development Part 2: The SMAC Optimizer
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading strategies usually involve adjustable parameters, and trading strategy development involves optimizing those parameters to find the best inputs and variables for the most profitable results. Here is a look at using the SMAC optimizer algorithm fo
Boost Your Strategy Development, Part 1: The Optimizer Contest
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Trading strategies usually involve adjustable parameters, and trading strategy development involves optimizing those parameters to find the best inputs and variables for the most profitable results. Here is an overview of some available optimizer types,
Christmas tree spread - the all-purpose strategy by Jerry Kopf
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...When a football team breaks from the huddle, the players set up at the line of scrimmage in a formation. Usually, it's the I or T formation. As the center snaps the ball, each player knows exactly what to do. There is no guesswork, no deciding at the lin
Designing A Money Management Strategy by Ray Overholser,O.D.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Designing A Money Management Strategy Using Volatility-Based Stops And The Kelly Criterion by Ray Overholser,O.D. Sorting out the criteria for a coherent money management plan is a complex, detailed job. Using a spreadsheet to keep track of the logic h
Developing A Multilevel Strategy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...HereÕs an automated trading strategy that can be used to trade currency pairs.
Developing A Trading Strategy by Frank McGuff
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Developing A Trading Strategy by Frank McGuff Trading strategies have several required characteristics, ranging from the ability to provide clear, unambiguous signals to the ability to validate each trade against the strategy. Developing and validating
Developing And Testing A Trading Strategy From The Vault
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A dive into this magazine's vast article archives can provide you with myriad ideas for trading strategies to develop and test. Here's an example of doing just that by returning to the very first issue of this magazine to pull out a trading idea. Will it
Developing My Trading Strategy by Leonardo Jafet
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Developing My Trading Strategy by Leonardo Jafet Are the risks and returns involved in a more active investment style compatible with your resources and financial goals? Here's a trading approach that can help answer your questions. ntry in my mental
Double-Bottom Confirmation Strategy by Arthur Hill
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How To Get Into The Trade Double-Bottom Confirmation Strategy Here's a strategy using a tried-and-true pattern to achieve faster entry signals and improve the reward-to-risk ratio. by Arthur Hill The double bottom that emerged in the Dow Jones Industri
End of Day Trading Using the Red Green Trading Strategy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In previous articles I have written about the JM investment strategy, and the R/G trading strategy. This article shows how to analyze the market and find a stock to trade short-term using the R/G strategy.
Entercom Communications And The JM Strategy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The JM strategy has been very kind to me over the years. Here's why.
Exits, Stops And Strategy by Jeffrey Owen Katz, Ph.D., and Donna L. McCormick
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Exits, Stops And Strategy by Jeffrey Owen Katz, Ph.D., and Donna L. McCormick Everyone's looking for entry trading signals, but what about after you're in the trade? Here are different techniques for making a graceful -- and profitable -- exit. Previous
Exploring Charting Techniques: Creating A Trading Strategy, Part 3
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Creating our own indicators and turning them into a trading strategy is something all technical analysts strive to do. Unfortunately, a lack of programming skills can often discourage us from accomplishing this. But there are ways to get around it. Here'
Fear And Strategy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...There is a lot of fear in the market, and it's probably even worse than you might think.
From Strategy To System
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A system seems to be an algorithm of the interaction of three subsystems: strategy, signal system, and sizing.
Grow And Protect: An Investment Strategy For Retirement
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here's one way to earn double-digit returns while preserving a retirement nest egg.
How To Improve Any Trading Strategy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Don't wait for drawdowns to hit before you make the effort to examine your profitability. Successful traders will routinely and systematically do this. Here's how you can embrace this mindset and adopt these important concepts for improving your profitab
Int: Which Option Strategy Should You Use? Guy Cohen Tells You by J. Gopalakrishnan
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:8 (52-56): Int: Which Option Strategy Should You Use? Guy Cohen Tells You by J. Gopalakrishnan Guy Cohen, creator of the OptionEasy software and author of the books ""Options Made Easy"" and ""The Bible Of Options Strategies,"
Is Buy-And-Hold The Strategy For You?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Buying and holding stocks may not be the best approach for everyone, especially those who are unwilling to sit back and take large losses while they wait for their stocks to climb back up.
Is Buy-and-Hold The Best Strategy?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Is buy-and-hold really the best strategy to follow?
Juniper Networks (JNPR). . .What Is The Right Strategy?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Juniper Networks (JNPR) is in the midst of confusion. There is a struggle between supply and demand with the supply side winning at this point.
Kroll on futures trading strategy by Dr. Alexander Elder
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Kroll on futures trading strategy by Dr. Alexander Elder Author: Stanley Kroll Publisher: Dow Jones-Irwin 1818 Ridge Road Homewood, IL 60430 Contents: 203 pages, hardbound Price: $29.95 Stanley Kroll is reputed to have taken seven-figure profits o
Looking For A Consistent, Profitable Trading Strategy?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Traders are always looking for a strategy that will give them consistent profits, no matter which direction the market is going. Here's one that you may approve of.
MACD x MA: A Cryptocurrency Trading Strategy And Guide
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Having a trading strategy in hand when you step up to your trading platform can be an essential part of an overall trading plan and approach to the markets. Here is one to consider, as well as some guidance for putting this or another strategy to work
MFITrend: A Daytrading Strategy For Cryptocurrency
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...You can keep your fear, uncertainty, and doubt in check by having a trading strategy in hand that you feel confident using. Here is one example strategy to consider for trading cryptocurriencies based on high readings in the money flow index
Market strategy The Wyckoff method of trading: Part 15 by Jack K. Hutson
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Market strategy The Wyckoff method of trading: Part 15 by Jack K. Hutson The reasoning behind Richard D. Wyckoff''s classic method of chart analysis is simple and straightforward: when demand for a stock exceeds supply, prices rise; when supply is great
Minimum Expectations Of A Trading Strategy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Is your system performing adequately? Here is a method you can use to determine minimum expected performance.
Moving Average Crossovers and the Red/Green Trading Strategy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Any moving average based strategy does not function well when the share price moves in a sideways pattern. Here is a share that has given good profits in the past using the red/green strategy.
Mutual fund trading strategy by Stan Jones
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Mutual fund trading strategy by Stan Jones It has always struck me that the typical technical analysis software package doesn't answer the right question. It plots technical indicators on the same screen with prices so the user can pick the one or the c
My Trading Strategy, Revised by Leonardo Jafet
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...My Trading Strategy, Revised by Leonardo Jafet Here's a methodology for developing and testing a rules-based system, improved from the original. Since my article in the June 2009 issue of Stocks & Commodities, I have worked on some improvements for my
On Synergy and Strategy: Tom Bierovic Of Synergy Futures by Thom Hartle
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...On Synergy and Strategy: Tom Bierovic Of Synergy Futures by Thom Hartle Thomas Bierovic is president of Synergy Futures, a research, trading, and education company. He also writes Synergy Fax, a daily advisory service for futures traders, and he wrote t
Perspective, Strategy, Price Action
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Price action is one of the least-understood functions of the market as well as the most taken for granted, yet knowing these two core factors can help you profit consistently.
Portfolio Strategy Based On Accumulation/Distribution
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Whether you are an individual trader or an asset manager, your main goal in reading a chart is to detect the intentions of major institutions, large operators, well-informed insiders, bankers and so on, so you can follow them. Here, we'll build an automa
Product Review Strategy Desk by Sharon Yamanaka
Product Review: FXCM Strategy Trade
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Fxcm inc. Financial Square 32 Old Slip, 10 th Floor New York, NY 10005 phone: 888 50 Fo r e x (36739); 212 897-7660 internet: www.fxcm.com email: info@fxcm.com product: Automated trading platform for forex traders with nonhedging standard
Product Review: Red Rock Pattern Strategy by Dennis D. Peterson
Product Review: Strategy Center by Jayanthi Gopalakrishnan
Product Review: Strategy Runner by David Penn
Quick Scan: Symmetrics Stock Market Trading Strategy for 1999
Quick-Scans: The Strategy Simulator
Red/Green Trading Strategy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...This is a strategy I developed for day trading that I found very successful.
Repeated Median Velocity Strategy, Part 2
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here in the second part of this article, you'll identify optimal parameters and find out how the system performed.
Return To The 50-50 Strategy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Once again, the 50-day moving average helps traders out.
Seasonal Trading Strategy: Buy STZ
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...This stock has gone up more than 70% of the time in June, and it is a potential winner in the month ahead.
Semi-Annual Gold Momentum Strategy: International Evidence
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...If you find an investing strategy with an edge, it's worth looking to see if you can broaden the strategy for more opportunities. Here, we'll revisit the gold momentum strategy to test it on some worldwide markets this time. We think you'll like the resu
September Strategy And What A Difference A Month Makes
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Beginning in August, weakness from July's trading was carrying over but now it's spreading like a contagion. Learn how to prepare and profit.
Simple Strategy For IWM
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...System trading can be just plain boring, but compared to the nonstop emotional ups and downs of discretionary trading, trading with a simple and steady mechanical method might be the best choice.
Simple Strategy Says To Buy The Dollar
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...While the direction of a trend can be dictated by difficult-to-understand economic concepts, there is a simple trend-following strategy that works and doesn't require any complex knowledge of economics.
Simple Strategy With 80% Winners
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Traders often look for complex strategies but simple could be profitable, and this simple idea points to further gains in stocks.
Six-Month Switching And Timing Strategy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In an ever-changing market, if you hope to achieve outsized gains, then you need to consider using the six-month switching and timing strategy.
Stock hedge portfolios: A strategy for all seasons by Larry Christy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stock hedge portfolios: A strategy for all seasons by Larry Christy If you're looking for a conservative way to make substantial profits in any kind of market environment, you may want to consider common stock hedge portfolios. By balancing an equal amo
Strategy Design For Option Traders
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Need a clear picture of what it takes to employ a successful trading strategy? Here it is
The 50-50 Strategy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Use moving averages to follow the trend.
The Delta-Delta Crude Strategy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here is an interesting trading strategy you can consider for crude oil that is based on term structure patterns
The Directional Cross Strategy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here we introduce a simple chart-based strategy you can consider
The Market Structure Shift Strategy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Based on the market structure concept written about by Larry Williams and making use of his Williams %R indicator, this strategy offers a type of trade that can be executed on a 15-minute timeframe in any currency pair of your choice
The Maximum Favorable Excursion Strategy by D. Stendahl and L. Zamansky
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Maximum Favorable Excursion Strategy by David C. Stendahl and Leo J. Zamansky Maximum favorable excursion (MFE) is the peak profit that a trade earns before the trade is closed out. Reviewing the performance of a trading system allows us to measure
The New Dow Strategy in 1996-97 by Paul and Carole Huebotter
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The New Dow Strategy in 1996-97 by Paul and Carole Huebotter The Dow dividend strategy - or, more idiomatically, the ""dogs of the Dow"" - has garnered a lot of attention lately. It, or one of its variations, has been the subject of at least five full-l
The Repeated Median Velocity Strategy, Part 1
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...It sounds complicated, but it's actually simple. In this first part of a two-part series, find out how to use this strategy to place buy & sell orders as well as the best way to test the strategy.
The Shark Attack Strategy And Fibonacci Levels
The Shark Attack Strategy And Fibonacci Levels
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Discovered long before there were stock markets, the Fibonacci method has proved to be useful for traders.
The Sniper MACD Trading Strategy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here's a daytrading forex strategy that's designed to be hassle-free
The Super Bowl Strategy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Does the winner of the Super Bowl determine a bullish or bearish market for the year that follows?
The Three Moving Averages Forex Trading Strategy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here's a trading strategy you can use for trading high-volatility markets such as forex, cryptocurrencies, or stocks. It's based simply on three simple moving averages
Trading Forex: Planning Your Strategy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In the final part of this introductory series on forex trading, we look at some important aspects of trading strategies and how you can develop one. We'll also look at some sources of data and potential indicators to use in forex trading.
Two Step Strategy To Getting In Early
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The most difficult part of trading is knowing when to get in early and when to stay out but there is a simple two step strategy to help you get into winning stocks earlier than the crowd.
Using A Strategy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...With all the uncertainty occurring in the USA today, do you stand aside?
Using Four Levels Of Risk Strategy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here's a modification to the fixed rate strategy that makes it not so fixed. This variation looks at four levels of risk and uses the one most appropriate to current market characteristics.
Using LEAPS In The Dogs Of The Dow Strategy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Dogs of the Dow is a simple, well-known strategy that picks stocks based on yield and trades once a year. Here's a twist on the strategy that buys call options on the strategy's stock picks. Find out how you can implement this approach and how it per
Using The Lower Low Strategy Plus Volume
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Finding a share out of the many thousands listed on the exchanges that could be a profitable trade is a matter of determining a trading strategy to use. There are many out there, and I have written a number of articles on various strategies, but one stra
Using a Covered-Call Options Strategy by Lawrence Serven
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Using a Covered-Call Options Strategy by Lawrence Serven What can investors do to overcome adverse market conditions? You could try using a covered call strategy. This strategic planner and analyst recounts a series of trades he executed using a covered
Variations On The Gold Momentum Strategy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...We saw good results from a simple momentum strategy where the investor switches between investing in the S&P 500 and a gold ETF. Could that strategy be improved upon?
What Now, Dow? Looking For Our Strategy
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...So we know that the Dow Jones Industrial Average is in a wave 4 correction of a Wave III. What should our strategy be?
Working Money: Grow And Protect: A Retirement Strategy by Allen Rehert
Working Money: Return To The 50-50 Strategy by Charles Bradshaw Schaap
Working Money: The 50-50 Strategy by Charles B. Schaap
Working Money: The Super Bowl Strategy by David Penn
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