Posts Tagged ‘Market Environments’
Brian Lund — The better you know yourself the better you’ll trade
Smarter Trading Podcast Episode 7 Hello everybody, our guest today is Brian Lund, a fintech executive, investor, and writer with over 35 years of trading experience. Brian is the publisher of The Lund Loop, a weekly newsletter in which he writes about the intersection between markets, trading, and life. In this episode we talk about…
Read MoreGregory Krupinski — Multiple timeframe swing trading framework
Smarter Trading Podcast Episode 6 Hello everybody, our guest today is Gregory Krupinski. Greg has been trading markets for about 20 years, all while working a full time job, raising kids, blogging, and continuing to find time to learn and improve his process. In this episode we talk about having balance, juggling real life…
Read MoreSean McLaughlin — Options trading, implied volatility & trading truths
Smarter Trading Podcast Episode 5 Hello everybody, our guest today is Sean McLaughlin, aka @chicagosean on social media. Sean is the chief options strategist for All Star Charts and Senior Market Strategist at Trade Ideas. He’s been trading for over 20 years starting out as a prop trader during the late 90s, founded a…
Read MoreSuri Duddella — Mastering stock market chart patterns
Smarter Trading Podcast Episode 2 Suri Duddella joins us in Episode 2 of Smarter Trading to share his knowledge about stock market chart patterns and how he uses automation to find the best available setups. We discuss the dangers traders can run into of self-identifying chart patterns without the proper understanding of their structure and…
Read MoreSwing Trading for 20 Percent Returns is a Waste of Time
Recently I received a comment on our popular How to Get Started Swing Trading Stocks video that hit on a lot of important topics other traders could benefit from reading. The comment read “[swing trading for] 20% is [a] waist [sic] of time. Many stocks give you 100% or more a year passive income. Swing…
Read MoreIs Trading the Golden Cross Profitable?
Introducing Beyond the Charts Welcome to the Trade Risk’s brand new educational series, Beyond the Charts! It is designed to give you insights into our research process, which for nearly a decade has helped fine-tune our expertise and products, such as the market-beating Merlin trading strategy. We start by asking questions as broad as, “Is…
Read MoreLessons Learned Trading a Bear Market Part I: Coronavirus 2020
This is part one of a multi-part series documenting some of the events that have unfolded during the 2020 coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak and the lessons and takeaways I’ve learned trading along the way. We start off with a little context of how we got to this point so that this article might prove useful years…
Read MoreHow to Develop Simple Swing Trading Strategies
How to Develop Simple Swing Trading Strategies lays the foundation for developing short- to intermediate-term overnight trading strategies. We’ll start off discussing what the goals of swing trading are and then move into some of the recommended steps to go about creating a strategy from scratch. There are no holy grails we’ll be uncovering, but…
Read MoreTrading Tips, Tricks, and Painfully Learned Lessons
Trading is difficult. Anyone who tells you otherwise probably hasn’t traded long enough, or is trying to sell you something. I certainly don’t have all the answers, but I have learned a lot over the years and, throughout this post, I’m going to share with you some high-level trading tips, tricks, and painfully learned lessons I’ve…
Read MoreHow Market Internals Can Improve Your Trading
If you trade stocks and you don’t follow market internals, also known as market breadth, then you’re missing out on a lot of valuable information. Like any other study or indicator, market internals aren’t guaranteed to get it right all of the time, but when they do begin to diverge or exhibit some out of the…
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