Posts Tagged ‘ technical trading ’
Investor uncertainty about Europe’s massive debt debacle is on the verge of dragging down the financial sector. Today, I want to show you why Europe still remains a threat — even though Wall Street seems to have forgotten about it — and how you can make one single move to ...read more
Learn These 4 Profitable Chart Patterns
Jan 23rd, 2012 | By Jonas Elmerraji | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technical Trading
If you’re just starting out as a trader, the sheer number of technical analysis patterns can be downright overwhelming. With literally hundreds of patterns to look for anytime you analyze a chart, it’s no surprise that new technical traders often suffer from analysis paralysis when they’re just starting out.
But it ...read more
Why Stock Trading Could Get Easier This Year…
Jan 17th, 2012 | By Jonas Elmerraji | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technical Trading
2011 was quite a year. Between threats of a second global meltdown, violent price swings in stocks and political incompetence, investors have faced an uphill climb to just to stay at breakeven. Don’t let the financial media fool you with talk of market changes right away — as far as ...read more
Chart Smarts: How to Make 44% Gains on This Trade
Jan 9th, 2012 | By Jonas Elmerraji | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technical Trading
It’s a new year — but this “old” pattern could still make you substantial gains in 2012. Here’s how...
Most people’s New Year’s Resolutions lists feature the standard self-improvement plans for 2012: lose weight, quit smoking, and travel more. But as a trader, your list of resolutions should look a little ...read more
Momentum Meltdown: The Best Trade of 2011
Dec 15th, 2011 | By Greg Guenthner | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technical Trading
I don’t have to tell you that it has been a very difficult year for investors. But there has been a small yet significant group of stocks that have delivered spectacular returns. If you spotted these setups early on, you had the chance to book considerable gains — even as ...read more
Why Santa’s Not Coming for Investors This Year
Nov 28th, 2011 | By Jonas Elmerraji | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Penny stocks
As I write, stocks are rallying hard, with the S&P 500 up more than 3% as the market digests positive data coming in from Black Friday sales and another round of European debt deals. This week, we’ll kick off the first trading week of December, giving investors one last glimmer ...read more
3 Things We Need to See Next Week to Be Bullish
Oct 14th, 2011 | By Jonas Elmerraji | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technical Trading
You shouldn’t trust this rally... at least not yet.
Stocks have pushed substantially higher in the last week, buoyed by positive early earnings data on Wall Street and “upbeat” news coming from Europe. Despite the frenzied buying that investors are participating in right now, it bears repeating that you shouldn’t trust ...read more
Back From The Brink?
Oct 12th, 2011 | By Greg Guenthner | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Penny stocks
One trading week and more than 6% in gains — that’s all it takes to get investors excited about the markets again after two nonstop months of stocks giving back all the ground gained in 2011 and more.
The rally began more than a week ago as stocks surged from the ...read more
Get Tactical to Keep Your Profits in This Market
Oct 7th, 2011 | By Jonas Elmerraji | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technical Trading
It’s time to forget being practical about your portfolio.
Practical advice — the tried and true suggestions like “buy what you know” and “invest in value” — are great strategies much of the time. They’re investment philosophies that have historically made folks a lot of money in the stock market. But ...read more
Chart Smarts: The Pattern That Made 20% in This Market
Sep 26th, 2011 | By Jonas Elmerraji | Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Technical Trading
There’s no question that this is a tough market to trade. With the Fed’s “Operation Twist” leaving investors twisting in the wind (or rather, smashing stock prices by around 6% in a few days), and the economy still perceived to be weak right now, there are serious forces trying to ...read more
