If you have been day trading for a while, and regularly using charts, it’s pretty certain you have used or come across Fibonacci retracements before. In most charting platforms you’ll find this tool located around with the trend lines options. The Fibonacci retracement tool is usually very easy to use, by clicking on a low and dragging the mouse to a high which places the … [Read more...]
Day Trading System For Scalping 1 Minute Charts
Depending on the type of daytrader you are, you may (or may not) find this fast-moving, high risk trading system useful. It goes without saying that trading on a one minute chart is only viable if you are in and out of a position quickly. Taking on a strategy in this time frame means taking on a degree of risk, which can only be negated by using a super solid stoploss and take … [Read more...]
Day Trading? 3 Things You MUST Learn Before It’s Too Late
So you want to earn your money day trading the markets? You’re not the first person, and you certainly won’t be the last. It’s a lucrative business that contains a lot of risk, but a hefty reward for those who can get it right. The reason why am writing this is that I see many new traders simply open up a chart, place and indicator on it, and suddenly think they going to … [Read more...]
Why You MUST Identify Support And Resistance To Improve Your Trading
Do you understand why support and resistance is so important to those who are day trading? It’s not some mystical chart pattern, there is a simple reason why these areas form on a chart, and if you don’t understand why that is you are setting yourself up for a lot of pain. Support and resistance on a chart is as simple as this: the price of any market is always searching for … [Read more...]
The Requirements Which Determine YOU As a Pattern Day Trader
Trading is the practice of buying and selling shares of a public corporation's stock. A day trade occurs when the speculator -- the individual purchasing or selling the share(s) -- initiates a trade after the previous market day's end and closes the trade before the current market day's end. A day trader is an individual who participates in pattern day trading: the execution of … [Read more...]
4 Types Of Trader – Which One Are You?
The novice trader looks at the most successful of stock market moguls and wonders always what their secret is. Even those who have found great success in the markets themselves cannot always identify exactly what about them makes them a great trader, and endless magazine articles, books, and lectures have been produced exploring the subject. Usually, the explanation of the … [Read more...]