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Read MoreHow to use Box Charts: Three Line Price Break
Candlestick and bar charts are the most widely known types of graphs in finance. What about box charts? I had not even seen one before reading the trading book, “Trade Chart Patterns like the Pros”, written by Suri Duddella. Suri discusses about box charts in the first chapter and particularly when he analyzes his method called “Three Line Price Break”. His book has inspired me to come up with a trading...
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Read MoreSimple Swing Trading Strategies for Stock Trading
What is a swing trading strategy? Swing trading strategies are usually short-term trading strategies that focus on swings of stock prices. When stocks are trending either upwards or downwards, they rarely go up or down in a straight line. Most often than not trending stock prices retrace and print pullbacks on charts, increasing the chance of a new swing towards the established trend. Take a look at the...
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Read MoreStop Loss and Trailing Stop orders in Online Trading
Money and risk management in online trading is everything. Stop loss and trailing stop orders are some of the tools traders use to manage their risk and cut their losses as soon as possible, in order to make money trading online. No matter the security one trades, the stop loss order is necessary when the prediction is wrong while the trailing stop loss is usually placed to exit the market when the trade...
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Read MoreHow much money can I make in online stock trading?
You can make money in online stock trading as long as you are following a trading strategy and don’t trade emotionally. Whether you are position trading, swing trading or day trading stocks, your goal remains the same: to predict uptrends when buying stocks and to predict downtrends when short selling stocks. The kind of the trading strategy only dictates the time frame you are supposed to be holding the...
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Read MoreImport your trades to your Google Finance mobile stock portfolio
I find Google Finance mobile portfolio much easier and faster to access when I want to check out stock quotes. I just fire up Google Finance application in my mobile phone and I know instantly which stocks are performing well and which need my attention, without logging in my online stock broker, Interactive Brokers. However, adding each transaction in the stock portfolio each day is very time-consuming...
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Read More3 Simple Ways to Invest in Gold
For years I have been hearing of news praising the rise of gold price and how no one has ever lost money by investing in gold! I often wondered why people don’t go buying gold if that’s such an easy way to turn profit. Gold investments are more attractive during war times, but even during peace gold price’s increase hasn’t slowed down a bit! So, are you getting worried of political or economic crises like...
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Read MoreWhy Betfair Trading is like Online Stock Trading
I have often compared Betfair trading with online stock trading in my blogs and discussed about the common characteristics the two financial markets share. Until now though, I hadn’t summarized those similarities into one post. I think Betfair traders would find it useful to know that moving from Betfair to stock trading isn’t that hard and at the same time stock traders would learn why articles about...
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Read MoreHow to Use StockTwits as a Stock Scanner
StockTwits is the Twitter for stock and forex traders. As such, StockTwits users tweet almost exclusively about stock news, their personal fundamental or technical analysis and post stock charts from time to time. The chit chat about stock trading may be fun, but traders can really benefit by StockTwits, given the fact that tweets are sorted by stock symbols, so that we don’t get lost in the...
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