Every trader should think in R-Multiples - Cover Image of chalkboard

Do you find yourself buying stocks using arbitrary round share sizes? Do you position size based only on the distance to your stop loss or vary size based on your conviction in the trade? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then today’s article about R-Multiples is going to be an important one…

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Swing trading using multiple time-frames - Image of Brian Shannon

 Smarter Trading Podcast Episode 9 Hello everybody, our guest today is Brian Shannon of Alphatrends.net. Brian started his professional investing career in 1991 as a retail stock broker and then quickly moved on to follow his true passion of trading, in 1994, which he continues to do full-time to this day. Brian holds a…

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Smarter Trading Episode 2 - Suri Duddella

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…

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How To Trade Daily Closing Prices - Splash Image

How to trade stocks using daily closing prices walks through the best practices, tips, and recommendations for implementing a strategy that uses daily closing prices for its signals. If you’re thinking about giving up intraday trading and extending your time-frame or if you’re a long-term investor looking for an active strategy to manage risk, this…

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How to Develop Simple Swing Trading Strategies Splash Image

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…

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Splash Image - How Smaller Profit Targets Can Improve Your Trading

How many times have you read that in order to make money trading, you need to play for a big profit target, let your winning trades run and cut your losers short? It’s sound advice, applicable in many places, and a great starting point for new traders. But it’s not the only way to make…

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Five Tips For Holding Winning Trades - Splash Image

Letting a winning trade ride is difficult. How many times have you had winners evaporate in front of your eyes, stop you out at break-even, or even worse, turn into a loser? It is no surprise holding onto a winning trade is one of the most difficult skills for a trader to develop.

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