Thursday, May 17, 2012

Day Trading Strategies

Trend Trade – JDSU

Yesterday I made a few trades in the morning that didn’t quite work out.  It was looking like it might be a pretty crappy trading day, however, I managed to catch the trend trade that formed in JDSU, and by focusing on that trade, managed to turn the day into a rather profitable day trading [...]

Day Trading For Dummies

Day Trading for Dummies is a follow-up to my post titled “How to Read Stock Charts for Dummies.”  You see, people have a habit of overcomplicating things that are very simple and easy to understand.  I think this gives people an excuse to fail, honestly. I mean, if you make something so complicated that you [...]

On Learning How to Trade Stocks – A First Lesson

For anyone wishing to learn how to trade stocks in the stock market, it is essential to become familiar with basic methods of risk management that can protect against excessive loss and enable the capture of profits if they arise. Let’s take an example of what might happen Without going into details of how a [...]

Day Trading Stock Online

Day trading stock online allows you the freedom to trade from wherever you’d like.  A majority of day traders are doing their trading from the comfort of their own home.  Leave the process of elbowing others out of the way and shouting all over the place to the dinosaurs on the floor of the NYSE. [...]

Intraday Trading

Intraday trading, or day trading, is trading that occurs during one trading day.  That means your intraday positions are entered and exited during the 6 1/2 hour time period that the stock market is open. Intraday trading is considered one of the riskiest form of trading due to how quickly you can accumulate losses.  I [...]

Intraday Charts

In order to day trade, you need to have reliable intraday charts.  Without this crucial source of information, you’re dead in the water. What is an intraday chart?  An intraday stock chart is simply a chart that displays information for time-frames shorter than a day.  For most traders this includes 1, 5, 15 and 60 [...]

Playing with Moving Averages

The easiest of the all the technical indicators to follow is the moving average.  There are two types of commonly used moving averages when you first begin to learn stocks.  The first is the simple moving average (SMA) which “simply” averages all of the closing prices for the last number of days.  The other option [...]

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