Breakouts are one of the most widely traded strategies among day traders, as well as longer-term traders. While breakouts can lead to powerful moves, false breakouts also occur frequently. Breakouts can be traded based on chart patterns, price levels, or…
Eric Hunsader is the founder of Nanex, a whole market streaming data feed, which broadcasts 20 billion data points every day. Eric started out in the early 80’s as an algorithmic trader, then became a self-educated programmer, and since then he’s…
S&P stocks generated $1 trillion in profit in 2016 to fill the corporate cash coffers. Most of these profit funds were used to improve shareholder value through stock buybacks or dividend distributions. According to Bloomberg, more than 90% of profits are spent…
Bollinger Bands are one of the most popular technical indicators available to traders today. These bands can potentially identify overbought and oversold conditions, while providing the trader with a quick visual measure of market volatility. Bollinger Bands consist of a…
Renowned investor Warren Buffet has the luxury of nearly infinite amounts of money and time to wait until his investments are profitable. This value approach largely eliminates emotional position exits with the confidence and conviction to be patient. The longer…
Jeff Davis is a day trader who specializes in the S&P futures, and he predominately trades a mean-reversion strategy built upon both real data and statistical probabilities. Across his 20-year trading career, Jeff has also been heavily involved in the…
While it’s pretty standard for investments to hold their positions long term, trades are more short-term in their thinking. An intraday trader may make one or even several trades during a trading day; a scalper could make hundreds or even…
Delta can be the carburetor for option positions. In the money options, at least those with real intrinsic value, have more fuel to produce power compared to out of the money getting just fumes. You have two choices: ITM (in the…
