Posts Tagged by day trading stocks

5 Day Trading Tips for Success

December 27, 2011 Posted by admin under Intro to Trading, Techncial Analysis Tutorials
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Ever wonder what professional traders are doing when the market opens, how they determine the day’s likely direction, handle stops and get an edge based on the time of day? Learn about it here. A great day trading article written back in 2005, but is still very relevant today. Some of the number can be slightly tweaked…

7 Metrics to Analyze Your Trading System

December 21, 2011 Posted by admin under Intro to Trading, Techncial Analysis Tutorials
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7 Metrics to Analyze Your Trading System By David Jenyns 1. Win-to-loss ratio When assessing the performance of a trading system, one of the first statistics that gives you a good indication of tradability is the win-to-loss ratio. Quite simply, this is the ratio of the average winning trades taken against the average losing trades…

What is Trading Expectancy and How it Works

December 19, 2011 Posted by admin under Intro to Trading, Techncial Analysis Tutorials
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What is Trading Expectancy and How it Works By David Jenyns The idea of trading expectancy can be the difference between winning and profiting. Master trading expectancy and you don’t even need to have more wins than losses to prosper. Let me explain. Despite the importance of risk management, I believe traders still under appreciate…

Volatile Stocks to Day Trade – December 19

December 19, 2011 Posted by admin under Day Trading Ideas
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On the weekend I posted an article on finding stocks which are almost guaranteed to produce big moves. Basically this is accomplished by running a screen for stocks which are already moving a lot over the last 10 days, 30 days, 100 days, etc. Day traders can use the stock screen to focus on trading stocks which…

How Much Capital Do I Need to Start Day Trading Stocks?

December 13, 2011 Posted by admin under Day Trading Ideas, Intro to Trading
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How Much Capital Do I Need to Start Day Trading Stocks? – Day Trading Requirements By Cory Mitchell, CMT “How much money do I need to become a day trader?” is one of the mostly frequently asked questions I receive from people who want to start day trading.  The following article looks at this common…

Day Trade Trending Strategy – What I look for while day trading

October 3, 2011 Posted by admin under Intro to Trading, Techncial Analysis Tutorials
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As many of you know, I am a day trader on a proprietary trading floor.  I also swing trade and take longer term positions, but day trading is what I do the most and by far what I enjoy the most.  That said, here is the method I use often when I day trade.  Even…

Day Trading Outlook & Stocks to Watch – September 23

September 23, 2011 Posted by admin under Day Trading Ideas, Stock Market Analysis
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Tough Thursday for stocks.  SPY finished down 3.23% to 112.86.  This is an extremely important move as the market gapped below the upward sloping trend channel.  Prior to this price was moving in an upward corrective channel a midst a broader bear market.  This move today makes another leg down highly! probable. Targets are 106…

Day Trading Outlook & Stocks to Watch – September 21

September 20, 2011 Posted by admin under Day Trading Ideas, Stock Market Analysis
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Good intra-day moves again today, although you may not know it just by looking at the close.  SPY finished down just slightly (0.12%) to 120.17; intra-day we moved 1.6% from low to high. The weakness in the markets in the afternoon was foreshadowed much earlier in the day when VXX began to rise WITH the futures.  Not…

Day Trading Outlook & Stocks to Watch – September 20

September 20, 2011 Posted by admin under Day Trading Ideas
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No real change in the long-term outlook for the stock market after Monday’s performance.  SPY, the S&P 500 ETF, finished down 1% to 120.31. We still remain in an upward sloping corrective channel.  Top of the channel currently at 126, low of the channel at 114.50.  I personally feel this market can go either way…

Day Trading Outlook & Stocks to Watch – September 19

September 19, 2011 Posted by admin under Day Trading Ideas
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During the absense of market updates last week the market marched higher, although still within the upward sloping correction channel.  The top of this trend channel is right at the 126 level on SPY (S&P 500 ETF).  This level corresponds to the breakout level of the long-term range which began this downtrend.  It is common…

Day Trading Outlook & Stocks to Watch – September 12

September 13, 2011 Posted by admin under Day Trading Ideas, Stock Market Analysis
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Quite a day for day traders on Monday with loads of action both up and down.  SPY, the S&P 500 ETF, finished higher after a massive rally in the last hour.  Up 0.65% to 116.70.  That rally kept the market above the short-term upward sloping trend channel support line.  See Stock Market Approaches Support, Another…

Day Trading Outlook & Stocks to Watch – September 9

September 9, 2011 Posted by admin under Day Trading Ideas, Stock Market Analysis
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SPY, the S&P 500 ETF finished down 1.04% to 119.04.  This puts it back in the middle of the upward sloping short-term trend channel.  Volume was slightly more than yesterday’s up day, but not significantly so. Intra-day trading again saw big swings in both directions, showing the trader confusion as the short-term and longer-term trends…

Day Trading Outlook & Stocks to Watch – September 8

September 8, 2011 Posted by admin under Day Trading Ideas, Stock Market Analysis
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Markets popped today even after a gap higher.  SPY finished up 2.82% to 120.29. The S&P 500 ETF is in a short-term upward sloping trend channel.  The top of channel aligns with the original breakout point (when the market broke below 126-the low of the range we had been trading in since the start of the year)…

Day Trading Outlook & Stocks to Watch – September 7

September 7, 2011 Posted by admin under Day Trading Ideas, Stock Market Analysis
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After gapping down signficantly after the long weekend, stocks recovered much of the losses, but still finished negative.  From Friday’s close, SPY, the the S&P 500 ETF finished down 0.73% to 117.03.  Resistance is close by at 117.50, close to Friday’s low. The short term trend remains up, but the longer term trend is down.…

Stock Market Outlook & Stocks to Watch – September 6

September 6, 2011 Posted by admin under Day Trading Ideas, Stock Market Analysis
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On Friday, SPY, the S&P 500 ETF, finished down 2.55% to 117.84.  This places the index back within the former range, indicating the upward push earlier in the week was a false breakout. Short-term trend remains in place since August 9.  Yet is unlikely to continue for long given the false upside breakout which has occurred.…

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