ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Everybody is hunting for the best buy signals, but this focus ignores a major trading reality: You don't earn a penny until you sell. And you won't keep it if you don't know when to sit on your hands.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Everybody is hunting for the best buy signals, but this focus ignores a major trading reality: You don't earn a penny until you sell. And you won't keep it if you don't know when to sit on your hands.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Joy Global is a worldwide mining machinery and services company. And the stock price is breaking out.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Ever throw a "call the bottom" party and EVERYBODY came?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The transports signaled the possibility of a breakdown in late October, but a retreat from shooting star candlesticks turned into a reversal to the upside.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Entry discipline avoided the nonbreakdown and provided an opportunity to join the ride higher.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A bearish engulfing candlestick and a negative stochastic divergence suggested lower. But natural gas bulls would have none of it.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A 1-2-3 trend reversal setup in Comverse Technology sets up the potential for another rising stock in the telecom sector.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...With gold moving above $500 per ounce for a brief intraday moment, gold bugs became excited, but on November 11, in a Traders.com article on gold, I wrote...
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Have you ever traded with exceptionally bad timing? Here's one to ponder
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Different analysts can see different patterns in charts, but all analysts should agree on whether the patterns are bullish or bearish.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Midpriced retailers are likely to do well in the coming months, as their customers get rebate checks under Congress' recently passed stimulus package.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...When a symmetrical triangle pattern appears, and the share price breaks out, do you buy?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Is instinct all it takes to succeed in the markets? Do you really need to use indicators, chart patterns, and trading systems? Find out how this trader's approach is just a little different from the way most traders approach the market.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 25:2 (32-36): Follow That Trend by Michael Covel and Justin Vandergrift Even if you are a trend-follower, you still have to be a systematic trader. Here's why you still have to manage drawdowns when the market is not trending. A
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Stocks & Commodities V. 24:7 (58-61): Get That Edge In Your Trading by Clem Chambers When knowing the bid and ask is not enough, electronic order books like NASDAQ TotalView can give retail traders the tools to succeed. There is no such thing as too mu
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Will there be a Xmas rally this year?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Figure 1 tells the whole story; this is just the translation. The biggest challenge is making sure your kids read it too. And your nieces and nephews, and the kids next door. This is the kind of life-changing and habit-altering information that has alway
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How can the intelligence of machines help you in your trading? As it turns out, with the help of neural networks, you can use your software to mimic how you think. To help shed light on the subject, we picked the brains of two people who have the knowled
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...With Silver Wheaton, it appears so.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The US stock market has been depressing as Europe struggles to get back on its feet.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Don't let overly positive rates of return obscure the real picture. Try a rule of thumb to estimate time value of money.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Have you ever looked at the price of a stock and wondered whether it's worth that much? Understanding pricing theory will help you determine if a company is likely to experience growth and whether its stock is indeed worth the price you pay.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Like many traders, I first learned of Dan Zanger in a December 2000 Forbes article entitled "My stocks are up 10,000 percent!" that described how the former swimming pool contractor made stock market history by parlaying $10,775 into $1
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...It's What You Keep That Counts by Ted Tesser,CPA Trader status, which has always been one of the hottest but least understood topics whenever taxes are discussed, has always left market participants confused. Here's a certified public accountant who al
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Here are two shares that were way up there and are now way down there.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Patterns that detect stock market reversals by Bill Ohama and Melanie Bowman Full-speed ahead on its maiden voyage and presumably protected against disaster, the Titanic sank in the chilly North Atlantic Ocean, shattered by an undetected iceberg. In the
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...It's been a tough year so far, but a number of factors are lining up to say there's a light at the end of the tunnel.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...They say where there is smoke, there is fire and this one could be getting out of hand.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Yelp, Inc. is an American company that operates an "online urban guide" and business review site.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Do a little dance, make a little love. . . inflation is back in vogue.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...CNBC's Maria Bartiromo interviewed Robert Prechter of Elliott wave fame, and the Dow fell. Coincidence?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Pressure increases on Michael Dell as Carl Icahn mulls tie-up with Blackstone in bid for PC company.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A Wave 5 top signals the end of a bull trend and can be followed by a nasty correction.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Dow Transportation Index is said to be a leader.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Many experts refer to a dead cat bounce after the market falls dramatically. How does this apply to the current market?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How much of an impact does change in policy have on the underlying technicals on a chart? Here's an interesting observation that looks at wave patterns
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The market is waiting for the Dow to break above 20000.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Zoll Medical manufactures not drugs, but machines that save lives. Is that why the stock has skyrocketed?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Lululemon Athletica discovered the Oprah effect on November 19, 2010. At least that's what the various financial newspapers wrote.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The Nasdaq composite has been playing the teasing game of late. It raises investors hopes by going up drastically for a few days only to be followed by declining values that shatter all hopes.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...The RSI divergence pattern is a pattern that strongly suggests the start of a bull run.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...It looks as if the indices have come to the next signpost.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS..."Facebook has exploded upwards. The question everyone is asking is, 'How much higher can it go?'" That is the question I asked on September 26, 2013.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...One Elliot wave rule is that a wave 5 is equal to a wave 1.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...How much longer can the market continue to rise under Trumponomics?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...So why isn't your IRA limit $5,000 instead of $2,000?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...May 18th, 2016 makes it a year since Ascena (ASNA) announced its acquisition of ANN stores for a mixture of cash; financed by debt and stock. The deal created one of the largest specialty retailers in North America with a total of over 4,900 stores. In
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Intermediate top patterns suggest declines are nearer than further advances.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...What the MACD appears to giveth, it also can taketh away.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...On Tuesday, February 7, the morning fix of the London gold price dropped suddenly from $568.25 to $548.65, a drop of 3.45%. What happened?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Those Losses That The Trader Creates by Adrienne Laris Toghraie Traders may move from periods of success to periods of loss, but the losses may be created by the trader and not the markets. Here are some guidelines to identifying this problem and how to
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A trader's job is to find the best indicators for entering and exiting trades. Here are three fundamental metrics that you can't afford to ignore.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In my last article, I described 13 candlesticks that worked best as reversal or continuation patterns. That means price closed above the top of the candle pattern or below the bottom of it, signaling a reversal or continuation not just once, but
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...As stocks continue to set new highs, there are some signs emerging to keep traders on their toes.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Traders have a habit of discounting fundamental data. But here are two that should not be ignored.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...VMWare, Inc., is a provider of virtualization software. Is it a buy for your portfolio?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Almost every stock decline of 5% leads to the question about whether a new bear market is under way. The steep drop in August prompts that question once again.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...With Amazon's (AMZN) recent purchase of Wholefoods Market, it looks like there is no stopping this juggernaut of a stock. But what does a study of the price chart reveal about the performance of this stock?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...It's one of the toughest and loneliest decisions for an investor to make.
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...When Should You Sell That Stock? by Michael B. Patterson It's one of the toughest and loneliest decisions for an investor to make. When it comes to buying a stock, there's no shortage of advice, both useful and otherwise. Virtually every investment mag
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...Working Money: That '70s Show by David Penn These must be confounding times for those who have spent the past five years alerting the investing public to dangers of deflation. Deflation -- the process through which a currency becomes overvalued relative
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...A share price should always fall or rise to fill a gap. Should you buy or sell when that happens?
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS...In today's market, with the liberation and occupation of Iraq affecting the market adversely, it is not easy finding a company that looks interesting as far as good profits are concerned. Here is one possibility that has shown up quite clearly on my