Charts + Technical Analysis

Price alerts can be very damaging towards your trading success and shouldn't be relied on. In this podcast episode, I talk about why using price alerts can be a serious hindrance to your trading performance and why, for most traders it simply leads to unnecessary and avoidable losses.

Knowing how to swing trade coil and momentum breakout plays is essential in learning how to trade stocks and trade them successfully. You'll learn where to place your stop loss on a coil trade and how I maximized my gains in Alibaba (BABA). The momentum swing trading setup comes following a big move, and a

Should you be short selling stocks into their earnings report? Let me just tell you that shorting stocks is a risky endeavor, and if you are shorting companies into their earnings reports, you are setting yourself up for massive failure. For one, earnings reports are pretty much unpredictable on a large scale. Shorting into the

Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in January indicates that the labor market remains strong but that growth of economic activity has slowed from its solid rate in the fourth quarter. Payroll employment was little changed in February, but job gains have been solid, on average, in recent months, and the unemployment

Resistance being tested in nearly every sector.  Unless you are utilities, you have some resistance sitting just above your current price. Though overall, the market needs to break through it all at every level if it has any desire to keep this market rally going. The good thing is, that once it breaks, it should

A stock market correction today happens faster than ever. The stock market today can crash incredibly fast, and then put in a bounce in the form a v-shape that is much quicker than anything we have ever seen before. In this podcast, I address how stock market corrections have evolved over the years with electronic

A stock market correction today happens faster than ever. The stock market today can crash incredibly fast, and then put in a bounce in the form a v-shape that is much quicker than anything we have ever seen before. In this video, I address how stock market corrections have evolved over the years with electronic

A stop-loss should be used on every single swing-trade and day-trade that you make. No excuses. Stop-losses are absolutely the best and most simple way for preventing massive losses - well, that and not playing earnings or some major FDA announcement on penny stock biotech company. The point is, if you are going to trade

Bearish on my reversal indicator For nine out of the last ten weeks, the market has risen in a ferocious manner. Unhinged you may even say.  But this week has been quite different, and on the weekly chart the bulls are staring into the face of a bearish engulfing candle pattern. More importantly is the indicator

A stop-loss should be used on every single swing-trade and day-trade that you make. No excuses. Stop-losses are absolutely the best and most simple way for preventing massive losses - well, that and not playing earnings or some major FDA announcement on penny stock biotech company. The point is, if you are going to trade