Posts Tagged ‘Momentum Trading’
Chip Selloff Pressures Momentum as Energy Leads the Tape
Market Environment Stocks closed risk-off as AI and semiconductor selling deepened. QQQ, XLK, and SMH carried the pressure, while energy became the clearest upside pocket as oil surged on U.S.-Iran and Hormuz stress. Defensives and financials helped cushion the tape, but not enough to offset growth weakness. Rates, dollar strength, and inflation watch kept traders…
Read MoreWhat Is Stock Market Health? A Practical Guide for Traders
Learn how traders evaluate stock market health using market breadth, internals, leadership, volatility, and trading conditions before taking trades.
Read MoreAI Infrastructure Carries a Strong Momentum Tape
Market Environment AI infrastructure carried the close, with semiconductors, chip equipment, connectivity, storage, and data-center power lifting QQQ and SMH while the broader tape stayed constructive. The rally was not universal. Defensives, real estate, long bonds, energy, and crypto-linked exposure lagged, which kept the session growth-led rather than a broad risk-on sweep. The next test…
Read MoreAI-Memory Rally Lifts Momentum as S&P Stays Flat
Market Environment Stocks finished mixed but constructive. The S&P 500 was basically flat, while Nasdaq, small caps, international equities, semiconductors, industrials, materials, health care, and biotech carried the better tone. The clearest driver was the Micron-led AI-memory rally. Storage and semiconductor names attracted the strongest bid, while software and crypto-linked exposure lagged. For traders, the…
Read MoreThe best stock market scans for short-term swing and day traders
If you’re looking for new stock scans and trade setups, then you’re in the right place! We’ve been creating scans and screeners for ourselves and for other traders since 2012 and one of the most popular questions we receive is, ‘which scan is the best?’ In this blog post, we’re going to answer that question…
Read MoreEvan Medeiros — Season 2 Finale Highlights & Takeaways
Smarter Trading Podcast Episode 20 In this solo episode, host Evan Medeiros reflects on his conversations from Season 2 guests and shares his favorite lessons and highlight clips.
Read MoreKunal Desai — Momentum based day trading strategies
Smarter Trading Podcast Episode 16 Our guest today is Kunal Desai. Kunal is an American stock trader and CEO of Bulls on Wall Street, an online trading academy. He began trading in 1999 and has spent most of career perfecting momentum based day-trading strategies. In this episode we talk all about what it takes to…
Read MoreDr. Barry Burns — Futures, options, and trend trader for 50+ years
Smarter Trading Podcast Episode 14 Our guest today is Dr. Barry Burns. Barry has been trading markets for over 50 years and is the founder of Top Dog Trading and author of the popular book, Trend Trading for Dummies. In this episode Barry breaks down the many different trading strategies that he uses to invest…
Read MoreCesar Alvarez — Building quantitative trading systems to trade the stock market
Smarter Trading Podcast Episode 11 Our guest today is Cesar Alvarez. From 2004 to 2013, Cesar was the Director of Trading Strategies at TradingMarkets.com and Connors Research. Cesar has developed strategies for private equity funds, authored multiple books on trading, and was a Software Engineer on the early versions of Microsoft Excel. He is well…
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…
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