Chart of the Day
One of the nice things about swing trading is you can have resting orders, so your alert that a pattern has triggered is an order being filled. Here's a nice pattern to put in your trade plan: the nested flag. (I came up with that name years ago,
Chart of the Day
Take a look at the table of charts below. Each smaller chart shows the 10 largest stocks for that S&P 500 sector. They are graphed with historical (also called realized or statistical) volatility on the horizontal, and implied volatility on the vertical. The dot is the current value,
Chart of the Day
Here is a trade setup we published today as a MarketLife TradeLab, available to both MarketLife Premium and MarketLife Plus subscribers. We are also offering a lifetime 20% discount on MarketLife. Use the code SPRING19 and sign up today. After offering trading opportunities on both the long and short side,
Chart of the Day
Chart of the Day
This will be a very quick blog, as I'm just typing a few thoughts here in the first few minutes of what might be a volatile trading day. This morning, I noticed an extreme negative NYSE TICK reading on the open, and ran some quick stats. * The low
Chart of the Day
Chart of the Day
I write a lot of words, but sometimes words aren't really necessary. I'll just leave you a look at the current chart of the S&P 500 index (daily), alongside the chart from last year. This suggests that the market environment may have changed, perhaps?
Chart of the Day
As I mentioned in my social media posts, I’m travelling this week and next so I will be a bit slower to get posts out. (I think an interesting topic is “vacation” for a trader. I’m writing this from my private terrace in Rome, but I’ve also
Chart of the Day
Pot stocks are the new cryptocurrencies, at least in terms of volatility and bubble potential. Take a look at the chart of TLRY below. A few thoughts: * First, this chart is log-scaled. (One good reason to use log scaling instead of linear scaling is when there is a very large
Chart of the Day
Interest rates are constantly in the headlines. When I talk to traders and investors, interest rates are one of the topics that always come up. There's a great deal of fear and concern about higher rates and about what that might do to many markets. If you'
Chart of the Day
I want to share this video with you, which is the stock market analysis I recorded for my MarketLife Premium clients for 6/5/18. Why am I sharing this? Well, yes, there's the obvious reason that I'm excited by what I'm doing and
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