Posts Tagged by day trading strategies
5 Day Trading Tips for Success
| December 27, 2011 | Posted by admin under Intro to Trading, Techncial Analysis Tutorials |
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…
Adjust Day Trading Strategies to Fit Market Conditions
| October 21, 2011 | Posted by admin under Intro to Trading, Stock Market Analysis, Techncial Analysis Tutorials |
In a recent article for Investopedia entitled, Adjusting Day Trading Strategies For Different Market Conditions, I discuss how day trading strategies can be adapted to suit different market conditions which occur intra-day. Thus, the trader is faced with a choice: trade one strategy and profit only at times that suit the strategy, or trade several strategies that…
Day Trade Trending Strategy – What I look for while day trading
| October 3, 2011 | Posted by admin under Intro to Trading, Techncial Analysis Tutorials |
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…
A Forex Profit Loophole….
| September 2, 2010 | Posted by admin under Day Trading Ideas, Intro to Trading, Stock Market Analysis, Swing Trading Ideas, Techncial Analysis Tutorials |
Check this out. While researching new ways to save time trading Forex (without sacrificing pips), this trader kind of stumbled upon 2 ‘discoveries’ that may surprise you. The first one has to do with a ‘flaw’ in how 90% or more of Forex traders think about trading these markets. It’s deceptively simple… -yet it led…
EUR/USD-Tighter and Tighter it Winds….
| March 10, 2010 | Posted by admin under Stock Market Analysis, Swing Trading Ideas |
There was some movement today, but the daily range has narrowed. The EUR/USD is a trending currency and will eventually make a trending move, but now it trades between two pivotal levels, 1.3430 and 1.3740. The recent swing have given us some support and resistance within the range: Support comes in at 1.3540-1.3525. A drop…
Triangle Normally Indicates Breakout, BUT….
| March 9, 2010 | Posted by admin under Day Trading Ideas, Stock Market Analysis, Swing Trading Ideas |
Here is your daily outlook for the EUR/USD – March 9, 2010. The pair continues to move in a sideways fashion. On the hourly chart we have converging short-term trendlines forming a triangle . Given that the triangle has formed within a well-established range does not indicate a breakout. Although, a move above 1.3715 would…
Day Trading These Stock Market Swings
| January 30, 2010 | Posted by admin under Day Trading Ideas, Intro to Trading, Swing Trading Ideas, Techncial Analysis Tutorials |
I got asked to post a chart of the intra-day trends I mentioned in Stock Market Outlook – Key Support Broken. What follows is not my actual chart from the last two days, but have recreated here to show the general idea. I have used SPY in the chart. There are fantastic tradable moves which…
A Trading Strategy for Stocks or Forex – Truncated Price Swings
| July 21, 2009 | Posted by admin under Day Trading Ideas, Intro to Trading, Techncial Analysis Tutorials |
The following strategy can be utilized in almost any market, and while I outline a day trading method using the strategy, it can be used on longer term time frames as well. I have called the strategy the Truncated Price Swing. Because most people understand the stock market, somewhat, but not everyone understands the forex…

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