“It’s like traders have an acute case of Attention Deficit Disorder,” my friend Rob said last weekend. “They can’t focus on any one thing for more than a day or two. But they’re buying and selling as quickly as possible…
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The most widely recognized stock market measure on earth isn’t dead, just as a market opinion in the sense that the multi-year rally run could have come to an end. Seriously, learning to understand about the DOW will help you…
While many markets trade primarily electronically, some markets (such as the S&P 500 futures market) still are still trading the open in the pit. What’s the pit you ask? Well, this is a specific area on the trading floor that…
Controlling risk is the number one objective for many professional traders and the money that they have under management. Their focus is to minimize the financial downside of any investment decision. Winning exit strategies are developed prior to entering the…
If futures spreads are not part of your trading plan, you may be missing the boat. In fact, for the smaller retail account crowd, spread trading can have some significant potential benefits. Before we move on, know that spreads are no…
Government reports, earnings, broker upgrades, and news information are constant being released in the marketplace. The data overload can lead to emotional trading for those who react to barrage of micro price movements. In reality, most events are already discounted and…
The latest diet fad in America is the social media detox. Some folks go cold turkey, wiping their accounts clean. Other dieters delete apps like Instagram from their phone so they won’t compulsively check for new posts every ten minutes….
In 2017, there were over 1,000 ETFs in the U.S. alone and there were 3.42 trillion dollars worth of assets managed by ETFs around the world. In fact, heavyweights Goldman Sachs and John Hancock were among the twenty new insurers…
