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Thinking About Morning Market Action: Framing Trading Ideas

Thinking About Morning Market Action:  Framing Trading Ideas

Let's take a look at Twitter comments thus far this AM. Note how observation of a fly in the bull ointment began with an observation of NQ weakness before the open; open minded watching of how we traded around the open price (and 7/30 high price); and...
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Morning Briefing for August 3rd: Marching Toward 1000?

Morning Briefing for August 3rd:  Marching Toward 1000?

Here's a quick look at how we're setting up for today's stock market open. Note that we were in a multi-day trading range from July 23rd through 29th before vaulting higher on the 30th and starting a new trading range. We're now peeking above the Jul...
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Indicator Update for August 3rd

Indicator Update for August 3rd

The recent sector review found that most of the S&P 500 sectors continue to trade in short-term uptrends. The indicators support this bullish view, as we see significant positive momentum among stocks (top chart) and new 20-day highs greatly outnu...
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Evening Briefing for August 2nd

Evening Briefing for August 2nd

* MARKET THEMES FROM FRIDAY: Friday saw range bound trade consolidating the strength that we saw on Thursday. Low readings for both the Demand and Supply indicators suggest a range environment going into Monday's trade, with important support at Fri...
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Important Notice: Change In The Blog Publishing Schedule

Important Notice:  Change In The Blog Publishing Schedule

Dear Readers,Starting Tuesday, I will be traveling to Europe and South Africa for much of the next two weeks. As a result, the publishing schedule to TraderFeed, as well as Twitter updates, will be affected. Specifically, I won't be trading the marke...
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Finding Successful Teamwork in Your Trading

Finding Successful Teamwork in Your Trading

In response to the posts on teamwork and performance and creativity and teamwork, several readers have asked how they might connect with others and enjoy the potential fruits of collaboration.In her comment to the performance post, Michelle B. makes an...
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More on Gnarls Barkley, Teamwork, and Trading

More on Gnarls Barkley, Teamwork, and Trading

A trader contacted me this weekend. He blew out at the end of the day Friday, playing for an upside breakout with big size. Many, many days of profit were lost with one hail mary trade at the end of the week.How would our trading performance change i...
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Sector Update for August 1st

Sector Update for August 1st

The prior sector update found that the market uptrend was healthy, with sectors showing positive Technical Strength and indicators in bullish unison: "It would not be surprising for traders and investors to use pullbacks in Technical Strength as buyin...
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Archived Trading Lessons: Resources for Developing Traders

Archived Trading Lessons:  Resources for Developing Traders

With over 2500 blog posts on TraderFeed alone and nearing 8000 (!) market tweets, it's a bit daunting for new readers to jump into the site.That is why I'm using a separate blog, Become Your Own Trading Coach, to archive posts specific to topics of hig...
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The Challenging Economics of Trading for a Living

The Challenging Economics of Trading for a Living

A reader sent in this heartfelt personal story as a comment to an earlier blog post. I thought I would post it separately as a possible learning experience for those who aspire to trade for their livings:This is the one advice I would have for anyone ...
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