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Day Wave Trading With Fibonacci Retracements

Jun. 21, 2014

Day Wave trading, or more accurately day to day wave trading, is a short term trading method I have developed utilizing Fibonacci Retracements. For those of you who don’t know Fibonacci Retracements, or FR’s, are a method of predicting and projecting potential areas of support and resistance on a chart of asset prices. The levels, […]

Anticipate Where the Price Is Going to Be

Jun. 20, 2014

Wayne Gretzky, the greatest NHL goal scorer of all time, said “A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.” This applies to traders as well. Most traders are always late getting into trades, entering near the tail end of a move or […]

Trading the “Dead Cat Bounce”

One of the best short trades in the world is the “dead cat bounce.” It is called so because even though the market may bounce after a devastating fall, it isn’t going to moving significantly higher anytime soon. The bounce is dead and those that go long expecting the price to rally further are also […]

The Fibonacci Long Bar Method

The Fibonacci Long Bar Method is a style of trading with Fibonacci Retracements that I have developed over the years. This method focuses on day and day to day trading utilizing retracement levels following a sharp single day rally or decline. This method is not suitable for everyday use but is quite handy at pinpointing […]

Trading: Start Small and Build with Success

Jun. 18, 2014

When I started my trading career in 2005, I was hired by a firm to trade their capital. Needless to say they didn’t just give me a few million and let me trade my heart out. The opposite occurred. I was allowed to trade only the absolute smallest position possible. Since I was trading the […]

2 Simple Indicators for Day Trading

Jun. 17, 2014

If you trade stocks or stock indices (or related products) here are two very simple indicators which will help you decide in which direction you should be trading. Open Price Indicator: Current price – Open price The Open Price Indicator (OPI) is a simple calculation that lets you know whether buyers or sellers are stronger […]

Trading Fundamentals: It doesn’t have to be complicated

Jun. 16, 2014

This article was originally contributed by the archived community member Mifune. We no longer maintain contact details for the original author. The content has been fact-checked and updated for accuracy by our editorial team. Hello! I am very happy to return back to my blog for at least these next couple months. For those who […]

Applying Fibonacci For Day Trading

Jun. 14, 2014

Fibonacci Retracements are one of my favorite trading tools and vital to my day trading performance. The levels predicted by the Fibonacci tool are remarkably accurate and provide a great number of trading opportunities for me in my day to day routine. The thing is, Retracements are best used when dissecting a pronounced trend or […]

Three Tools All Traders Should Know

Jun. 13, 2014

Believe it or not most of binary options trading is based on technical analysis. Technical analysis is the study and measure of historical price action of a financial product in order to make a prediction about its future performance. All the articles and all the strategies about trading binary options touch on technical analysis if […]

The Importance of Checking your Economic Calendar Everyday

Jun. 12, 2014

For the past decade, every day before I start trading I check the economic calender…except today. I predominantly trade forex so I check out the global economic calendar on DailyFX. Since I trade a wide array of pairs I need to know what major news releases are due out in all the major markets–AUD, CAD, […]