by Stephen Bigalow A lot has been written through the years regarding Candlestick patterns, especially the Doji pattern. Of all the Candlestick patterns, the Doji pattern appears the most often. The Doji represents ‘indecision’ on the part of traders and it occurs...
by Ray Frazier Let’s discuss the use of options with trendlines. You will be determining the option type to use for the specified trendline or chart pattern, the buy point and an explanation of what to expect from each chart pattern. The first example is an...
by Don Wellenreiter Every month nearly all options, both put and call options, expire worthless, meaning that the overwhelming majority of call and put buyers lose money. That must mean that simply reversing that concept and selling options should be highly...
by Jea Yu As I developed as a trader, making the right transition from consistent loser to consistent winner, I began to look for reasons why I should not be trading. I looked for red flags that told me my setup had less of a chance of working. This is the...
by Lee Gettess Price pattern is the single most important technical tool of which I make use of. Now, I’m not talking about the pennants, flags, cup and saucers, or Southern Ethiopian head and shoulders stuff that I find so subjective. I’m talking about...
by Peter McKenna Before becoming an event trader, I firmly believed that the buy-and-hold strategy was the best way to make money in stocks. As a reporter, I wrote countless stories that warned investors about the dangers of short-term investing. The...
by George Angell When is the reversal strategy most likely to succeed? When the market is likely to trend which is often in the first hour, shortly after the open, or the final hour just prior to the close. This is because the market rarely goes dead shortly after the...
by Kathy Lien The leveraged carry trade strategy is one of the favorite trading strategies of global macro hedge funds and investment banks. It is the quintessential global trade. In a nutshell, the carry trade strategy entails going long or buying a...
by Jon Najarian You can use spreads to play the short side of the market when you’re bearish on a stock, betting that the market will decline, or simply to protect your holdings, whether they are individual stocks or mutual funds. This strategy uses the put...
by Duane Davis To get an appreciation of what it is to trade using intraday charts, let’s take a look at a couple of examples using 60-Minute charts. The first chart below is of the EUR/USD. Let’s say that it’s 4:00 PM ET, and you decide that you’re going to trade...