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Day Trading and Swing Trading Articles to Help You Improve

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Interested in day trading or swing trading? These articles and videos provide insight into how to trade stocks, forex and futures. Starting Out How to Become a Day Trader – How to get into day trading; looks at trading from home or a proprietary trading firm. Basic expectations and traits. Basic Trading Terms Every Trader Should Know – Basic lingo of the trader. Stock Trading Day Trading Basics: The Bid / Ask Spread Explained –…

Two Effective and Simple Forex Strategies

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Here are two simple forex strategies that get us into a trade right when the price is about to turn. By getting in when the price is likely to turn, we maximize our profit potential, and also keep risk low since we can get out very quickly if the price keeps moving against us. Therefore, these strategies provide trades with excellent reward-to-risk ratios, where we can expect to make more on winning trades than we…

How Much the Spread Affects Forex Day Traders

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Paying a spread is part of forex trading, yet many traders do not understand just how much of an impact it can have. To get an indication of how much a spread is potentially costing, it is helpful to look at the spread of a given currency pair relative to how much that pair moves in a day. Looking at it in this light, traders can determine which spreads are worth paying, and which are…

11 Trading Articles to Help Get You Started in Stocks, Forex or Futures

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Some educational reading for all you aspiring traders out there. Here is a reading list of some things to be aware of if you want to start day trading or swing trading stocks, forex or futures. These articles primarily look at how much capital is required to start in each market, profit potential scenarios and some strategies. Want to Give Day Trading a Go? I love it, but the road isn’t easy (but it can…

Documentary: Quants – The Alchemists of Wall Street

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Quants, or Quantitative Analysts, are the people who work behind the scenes creating mathematical models and programs that are used to trade financial markets. These programs are responsible for a significant amount of the daily volume that occurs in financial markets. While the trading programs have increased volume and liquidity, it comes at a price. Program trading has been at least partially blamed for a number of market meltdowns, including the 2010 and 2015 flash…

These Stocks Tend to Perform Well in October (Seasonality)

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October is a good month for stocks overall, and these stocks tend to do even better than the market, rising at least 74% of the time and producing as much as 8.3% gains on average. Stocks mentioned: $AAPL, $MSFT, $ADBE, $VOD, $SYY, $CB, $ADM, $EIX, $CA, $ALK, $GPS, $ADP. Seasonality is the study of how assets perform at certain times of the year. The stocks below have shown a strong tendency to rise in October,…

Forex and Commodity Seasonality For October

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Here are the historical tendencies for forex pairs and commodities in the month of October. Statistics include how often the prices rise or fall, and by how much, on average. Tickers mentioned: $AUDUSD, $USDCAD, $CL_F (oil), $NG_F (natural gas), $GC_F (gold). Statistics are based on monthly opening and closings prices, and do no reflect overall volatility that occurs during the month. Commodity statistics are based on a continuous futures contract, which may differ from specific…

7 Statistics for Analyzing Your Trading System

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Keep track of these seven trading statistics to spot strengths and weaknesses in your trading, and to keep your trading on track. These statistics will vary over time, sometimes being better when market conditions are favorable, and sometimes they will be worse when market conditions aren’t as favorable. Monitoring the statistics gives us clues as to whether our trading plan needs to be adjusted. The statistics also give us a wake-up call when we aren’t…

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