Guest Post from Fred Barnes This musing on intraday trading may come off as a bit harsh and simplistic, but I think subconsciously maybe that is what I intended when I decided to pen this piece (initially as an email to a few traders friends). Here’s the premise for this piece: trading is “blue collar” work. If you want to succeed … Read More
Trading Thought of the Day – July 1, 2011
On low volume holiday trading sessions, do no harm. – Mike Bellafiore
So Simple Yet Missed By So Many
I have been inspired to write a quick post from a tweet sent out earlier from @apextrader. He mentions that he got long YOKU around 32.50 and that it has gone back up but been a fairly bumpy ride. Why did he make that trade? And why are so few able to execute this trade? YOKU recently was beaten down … Read More
SMB Radar Update for June 30, 2011
The Strong/Weak Today column ranks stocks based on the price change relative to the stock’s opening price. These stocks tend to have strong/weak opening drives and continuation moves. The idea here is to find opportunity in the strongest/weakest stocks in the market. When looking through the column, we always take note at how In Play the stock is to gauge … Read More
SMB Morning Rundown – June 30, 2011
The SMB Morning Rundown highlights the key levels in the Market and the best trading setup that we have identified for the Open.
