Swing Trading

Teach Talk Trade Blog wrote an interesting post today on
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Did you ever wonder why a company reports great earnings and the stock sells off? Well the old Wall Street adage “buy the rumor, sell the news” probably applies.
 
The saying refers to the fact that the stock market is a discounting mechanism. In other words the market tends to react to anticipated future events rather than what is taking place at the present moment.
 
For example let’s say that a company’s earnings are highly anticipated and the stock goes up 10% in the weeks prior to the earnings announcement. By the time the earnings are announced everyone who wanted to be long the stock for the earnings is already long. So that when the earnings are announced buying demand has abated and the only thing the stock can do is fall of its own weight helped by a lack of aggressive buyers and longs looking to take profits. By anticipating the […]

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E Mini’s 8/25/08 August 28th, 2008 by Uncle Mike ES (E-Mini): Morning Star formation. The S&P was up as was the NASDAQ was and Dow. After an up day on Tuesday, the markets posted supply and demand pictures that imply a turn or at least a pause while it ponders the situation. We were able to catch a Swing Trade Yesterday for 5 points.  The entry was at 1283 short around 12:45 and we exited near the close before the final move upwards.  The StoRSI, our momentum oscillator, momentum os

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UK CBI: Aug Retail Sales Volume -46 vs -36 in Jul August 28th, 2008 in Forex News | No Comments » Tags: online forex course | swing trading system FXstreet.com (Barcelona) For more information, read our latest forex news.

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Hi all, Just letting you know that we have expanded the number of Charts that is published. We now also have daily Charts for some items. These Charts have a longer time-orientation than the hourly Charts. We hope this will enable non-day traders to take advantage of the trading opportunities these Charts offer.

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Amextrader wrote an interesting post today on
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Much of the work we do is based around analyzing cycles in the market.  There are various ways to do this.  Fourier transforms, trigonometric regression, Hurst channels and pivot projections  to name a few.  Cycles in the stock market can also come under different names, such as “seasonal”, or “seasonal trading”.  A seasonal is just another form of a cycle, but seasonal are date dependent functions and cycles are often date independent.
There are cycles on all different time frames.  For example, if I make a composite of the market over any different unit of time, it may reveal to me various seasonal tendencies during that interval that have occurred in the past.  Many of the most successful traders in the world use this kind of method.
To make a composite on an annual basis for example, we would start on Jan 1st (or the first trading day of the year) and, […]

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Daily Market Commentary for August 26, 2008 from Millennium-Traders.Com Gustav, a Category 1 Hurricane is headed toward the Gulf of Mexico and chances are it may gain strength to form as a major Hurricane; possibly as strong as a Category 5.… (read more) http://www.millennium-traders.com/news/newscommentary.aspx At the NYSE […]

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Gold must hold $800 chart support to rally again (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News) August 27th, 2008 After the widespread sell-off in commodities, gold must hold above the key $800 support level to have a shot at resuming its long-term bull run, technical analysts say. Posted in Technical Analysis | No Comments » « Older Entries Tagsbreak-out buy charting charts Commodities currencies currency Dow Jones elliott wave EUR euro Fibonacci forex Fundamentals Futures fx

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Technical Analysis Trading wrote an interesting post today on
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It would be nice if the market would post a sign and tell us where it’s headed, but if that were the case then trading wouldn’t be so lucrative when we’re right. Good trading doesn’t have to be about nailing every move, contrary to what many believe. Rather, letting the market pick a direction and then jumping on for a ride can be a very effective approach simply by limiting our mistakes. Often times we find the market to be range-bound or lacking momentum (such as right now ahead of the Labo

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There are 5 challenges of a swing trader.  These things are problems that all swing traders face and should be overcome to be successful. There are 5 challenges of a swing trader.  These things are problems that all swing traders face and should be overcome to be successful. 1.       Exiting winners too early.  Exiting a profit early […]

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Team Forex - Never trade the Forex Alone wrote an interesting post today on
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Are you trying to keep busy as we plow through the dog days of summer? You are not alone. As it turns out we have been very fortunate this year in term of intra day volume and volatility. Up until this week, the last week of August, the summer has been full of news that has resulted in above average volume, and more often than not 2 or 3 intra day trends with follow through. It now seems like we are starting to hit a wall in term of volume. So what to do?
 
The important part is not to jump in and out of trades just for the sake of trading; small losses will turn into big losses, since for the most part it will feel like nothing is going on, yet you will be bleeding slowly. Have a couple of slow bleeders and you end the month on a […]

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