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- Is Gold Another Fiat Currency?
[Investing:Futures-and-Commodities] This past week gold surpassed $1100 an ounce in the futures market. This is certainly good news for gold bulls, and it's difficult to argue with this powerful trend. However, there are some things that are cause for concern at these price levels. The long term case for owning gold is logical and sensible, however the timing of buying at these levels might be another matter.
- Market Profile - An Introduction
[Investing] A Market Profile chart is a unique representation of price, volume, and value. The profile displays value as a function of price over time using market-generated information. The Market Profile concept is quite the opposite of what most traders use to make trading decisions.
- Commitments of Traders - Is it a Useful Tool to Time Markets?
[Investing] Trading with insider information is an illegal practice in the financial markets, however the Commodity Futures Trading Commission issues a report each week that might come as close to legal insider information that one can get, at least for the U.S. futures markets. But is it useful as a tool or method to help the trader to be on the correct side of the markets?
- Investment Bubbles - Past and Present
[Investing] There have been many famous speculative bubbles in the past. There appears to be a few forming currently. While it can be profitable to ride the investment while a bubble is forming, it is important to recognize when an investment is in a bubble, and to get out before the bubble bursts. Doing that is, of course, easier said than done.
- Baltic Dry Index - An Important Index To Help Measure World Economic Activity
[Investing] The Baltic Dry Index can be of great help in determining the level of world economic activity. If the cost of shipping raw materials is increasing due to high demand, the prospects of continued economic growth are most likely favorable.
- On The Quick and Easy Path To Achieving Trading Mastery
[Investing] Many books on trading psychology refer to the steps involved in achieving trading mastery. This is usually presented as five steps, starting from beginner, through novice, and finally becoming an expert, or master. While this is an excellent study, many traders underestimate how difficult trading is, and how long it takes to become successful. Many trading educators tend to perpetuate the myth of easy and quick trading mastery.
- Covered Call Writing - Beware of the Pitfalls
[Investing] The prospect of creating additional income on a portfolio of stocks is an intriguing and much touted idea. Doing so with covered call options is promoted as being safe and sensible. However, there are some pitfalls that the potential investor or trader should be made well aware of before engaging in this activity.
- To Day Trade or Not to Day Trade
[Investing] Day trading earned a much-deserved negative reputation during the Nasdaq bubble in the late 1990's. Then you could find many day trading schools and trading rooms that tried to make day trading look like easy money, mostly with video arcade style trading applied to Nasdaq stocks. Most of those rooms and methods are now gone. But replacing the Nasdaq day traders are a new crop of on-line trading rooms and trading schools that focus on stock index futures and forex.
- Choosing the Best Trading Time Frame
[Investing] Choosing the correct time frame for your style of trading is an important step in creating a workable trading plan. If the time frame is too short or too long to suit your personality, the trading plan will not survive, no matter how good the system or trading approach is.
- Trend Trading or Counter Trend Trading - Which is Best?
[Investing] Trading with the direction of the major trend is usually safer and more profitable. However, many traders prefer to try to pick the tops and bottoms of market swings. This can be done successfully at times, but I would suggest this is a difficult way to trade in the long run.
- Timing the Exit of a Trade After a Large Move
[Investing] One of the most difficult things to do in trading both emotionally and technically is to exit a winning trade after a large move. Nobody wants to get out too early, only to leave profits on the table. Also, nobody wants to overstay his or her welcome and get out after the market has started its inevitable descent. There is not a perfect solution, but there are some clues.
- Using Adaptive Parameters in Technical Indicators
[Investing] Technical analysis indicators come pre-programmed with a static input parameter. Many of these indicators can be improved significantly by using a parameter that reflects the current market condition, which is best defined by the measurement of the dominant cycle.
- Determine the Trend Before You Trade
[Investing] It is important to know if there is a trend in place, and if so, what the direction of the trend is. This seems basic to trading, but few traders have a clear definition of what a trend is. Trends are easy to spot in hindsight. But rules are needed to determine the trend as it is developing.
- ETFs - A Superior Trading and Investment Vehicle
[Investing] Exchange traded funds have grown in popularity and importance in the last few years. And they have done so for good reason. There are many advantages to using ETFs, as opposed to conventional mutual funds and stocks, for both trading and investing.
- Intermarket Analysis - Do Intermarket Relationships Help Make Trading Decisions?
[Investing] It is generally assumed that one market can influence, or even drive another market. Stocks go up when interest rates go down is one commonly held assumption. There are many other intermarket relationships financial news writers and commentators rely on to explain what the market did that day. But can these relationships be used in trading or investing?
- Day Trading Chat Rooms - What to Realistically Expect
[Investing:Day-Trading] I spent a considerable amount of time in a chat room dedicated to day trading stock index futures. There were many lessons learned here, but not many of them about how to make money. More was learned on psychology. The need to belong and believe in a leader, or guru, and the need to keep a dream alive can sometimes distort all common sense.
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