Time is on the Trader’s Side

Michelle B submits: Having read a few comments at trading blogs—OK, I have read zillions—I have encountered more often than not, a frenzied, harried, stressful approach to time when one is trading. Some feel the demonic pressure crushing them as soon as the market opens; others feel enervated by its demands needling and pinpricking them [...]

Trading 101: Recommended Reading – ‘Trend Following’

Michael Covel’s ‘Trend Following: How Great Traders Make Millions in Up or Down Markets’ will certainly be regarded as a classic investment book. Everybody involved in the markets should read this book.

Trading 101: Moving Averages

Moving averages (MAs) are very simple, yet extremely useful tools for investors. A moving average is simply the average of a series of numbers over a period of time which is constantly updated by dropping the oldest value and then adding the newest value and recalculating the average. So a 5-day moving average of stock [...]