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Engulfing Candlesticks: How to Spot Them and What They Mean
To the average trader, candlestick patterns are a bunch of crosses and odd shapes with bizarre names, like the three black crows, or the abandoned baby bottom.
But as odd as they may sound, they can provide powerful insight into direction.
How to Really Let your Winners Run
We’ve all seen fortunes made.
Unfortunately, we’ve also seen fortunes lost in a matter of seconds.
What Every Smart Investor Should Know about Market Pullbacks
Early October 2018 was quite painful for the average investor.
The major indices fell out of the sky. The tech-heavy NASDAQ fell from 8,100 to 7,300. The S&P 500 dropped from 2,925 to 2,725.
How to Spot Market Reversals with Bollinger Bands
If you pull a rubber band too far, too fast, what happens?
It snaps back, right? The same thing happens with stocks, indexes, and currencies. If they’re pulled too far in one direction, eventually they’ll snap back and revert to back to the mean. In fact, we see it happen all the time.
How to Use Full Stochastics in Your Trading
Fear can destroy a stock in seconds.
But it can also lead to quite a bit of opportunity.
Look at Coca-Cola (KO), for example in late February 2019.
Three of the Best Ways to Hedge for Market Downside
Markets are a fickle beast.
Even with the U.S. and China nearing a trade deal, markets began to pull back in March 2019.
While many shifted blame to the President for the move lower, we had to consider that markets were technically stretched. We were overdue for a pullback.