Mid-Level Pullbacks...
Combine Price and Time Ideally we want to combine price and time with our pullbacks. What does this mean? It means we want to see the pullback occur over a period of time (not one day), and we want to see the pullback be at least 3-5% from its highs. The further the pullback, the greater the returns... 
Shallow Pullbacks...
Identifying Good Pullbacks First, we want a stock to be above its 200-day moving average before we buy it. Why? Because stocks tend to trade higher more consistently in pullbacks above their 200-day moving average than below it. We tested a stock’s behavior above and below its 200-day MA looking at... 
Trading Markets Philosophy...
Trading Markets Philosophy The TradingMarkets Philosophy is to buy on weakness and sell into strength. This type of trading is known as swing-trading and pullback trading. What is a pullback? It’s simply a stock that has pulled back off its highs and is trading lower than it was a few days ago.... 
Top Stocks 2005 Review...
I think the cover says it all – the “11th Year of Publication”! Top Stocks 2005 is a dead set must have for all share investors. Whether you are new to shares or a veteran of the markets Martin Roth’s guide will pay for itself many times over. Surveying the Australian sharemarket and deciding... 
Weak Weekly Options...
On several occasions, I was asked to share my impression of the weekly options on some major indices, and in this article I shall first define them and then emphasize some of the pros and cons of trading them. The weekly options were introduced by the CBOE (Chicago Board Options Exchange) at the end... 
Markets and Market Timing...
This morning I was listening to a cable news network and in the span of about three minutes, I heard that home foreclosures increased 25%, job losses were on record pace, and Congress was meeting today to figure out where the 700 billion dollar bailout was actually going. This was enough to make your... 
How to beat the Managed Funds by 20% Rev...
The title might lead you to think that this is a book about using managed funds to do better than fund managers do, but it is much more than that. It is a guide both to designing portfolios, and to selecting the strategies and tactics to use within those portfolios. People with knowledge of the markets... 
The Psychology of Electronic Trading Rev...
This book is not, as some have thought, about electronic day trading. It is about the paradigm shift towards electronic trading that has been taking place around the world over the past decade. In many ways this is a complementary book to Patrick Young’s Capital Market Revolution, which explored the... 
The Bourse Review...
Trader One The Bourse is user friendly. The installation process is simple and the beginner’s tutorial is comprehensive and concise. The standard screen arrangement contains the stock list, and the other two screens contain the market depth and the chart relating to the selected stock, option, warrant... 
The Right Stock at the Right Time...
Anything written by Larry Williams is worth at least a bit of a read. He is the one who wrote a book about how, in a trading competition, he made $1 million from $10,000. On the way to the million dollars he went through $2.2 million, meaning that at one stage he lost half his trading account. Larry... 

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