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If you lose often when you pick tops and bottoms, then you may want to consider selling at bottoms and buying at tops. If you’ve a strategy that loses too much (always) for long periods of time; if that strategy loses more money in protracted losing streaks than it makes in short-term winning...

I agree with you. If range is beyond us we should not trade.

It may go up and up for days together if the news is very much in favour of the company in the short term as well as in the long term .

This is a very good forum for learning good techniques of forex trading.

If you look at any stock on a chart that is in a strong uptrend, you will find that the pullbacks are short lived. This gives you a excellent opportunity to buy the stock before it resumes the uptrend.

I agree with you.

when a bottom fails, you have a down trend, when a top fails you have a up trend.

For a relatively small amount of money (the margin requirement), a futures contract worth several times as much can be bought or sold. The smaller the margin requirement in relation to the underlying value of the futures contract, the greater the leverage. Because of this leverage, small changes...

Go google "3 Ducks Trading Systems", "Forex Useful" and "Baby Pips"

Virtual stock trading is a smart way to learn stock trading without risk.

Very nice reply.

Technical Analysis is the study of supply and demand in the stock market, by comparing the history of stock price movements and volume (the number of shares traded). Understanding the way the price moves in relation to the Open, High, Low and Closing Prices on a given minute, hour, day, week or...

There are 2 very important factors that traders are not aware of when it comes to stop loss placement: Your stop loss strategy will determine whether your trading strategy is going to be profitable or consistently lose money. You have to constantly track, re-evaluate and modify your stop...

Leverage is how much money/stock value you get to control out of your puny initial investments. for example, if your leverage is 1:100, that means you get to control USD100,000.00 worth of currency/stock for an initial investment of only USD1000.00 . Margin is the initial investment you use...

This won't work for short-term swings, but if you feel like a low-volume stock will be a longer-term winner, you can accumulate a sizable portion in small enough chunks not to swing the price (and then slowly unwind your position when the price has increased sufficiently).

A stop-loss becomes a market order once the stock price falls below that price level. This is typically understood as the most you're willing to lose on a trade, but realize that if the market gaps down, then you could be filled much lower for a larger loss. Target price has different...

It's also possible to lose money trading forex. In fact the very best traders do both regularly. Losing money in a trade is just part of trading. The trick comes in developing the skill set to steadily increase your account balance even though individual trades can go in either direction. There...

Position sizing is a technique that consists of adjusting the size or the number of shares/contracts of a position before or after initiating a buy or a short trading order. Position sizing is very important and if applied correctly, it can dramatically improve your strategy performance and help...

Money management is often viewed as a dull, sophisticated idea best left to professionals. But this couldn't be further from the truth. Money management is an exciting concept that all serious traders need to understand. In fact, money management alone can be the difference between modest...

Seems good, will backtest it for sure.