Simon Says Simply Read The Tape

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Day trading profitably requires Reading the Tape. Reading the Tape is a skill. It’s a skill that can be learned. However, it doesn’t always come easy to the beginning or underperforming traders. Listening to Simon is tape reading in its purest and simplest form. Learning to Read the Tape in a manner that simplifies your thought process frees you from … Read More

Is it Possible to Day Trade AND Employ Non-Directional Options Spread Strategies?

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On the surface, the intraday trading strategies of equities and non-directional options spread trading would seem to be mutually exclusive. Day trading depends to some extent on strong directional movement that allows the day trader to get long or short a stock at at the right time and then ride that direction until an opportune time to exit emerges. Non-directional … Read More

4/7/11 Stock scans

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Here I will post these one more time over the weekend along with some thoughts about how you can design something like this yourself.  If you have any more questions, please ask them here and I’ll answer them.

SMB Radar Update for April 7, 2011

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These are the top 5 stock on today’s Opening Range column on the SMB Radar. The opening range filter records a static snapshot of the Unusual Movers at 9:45. These are stocks which had an unusual move in early in the session compared to historical opening ranges. Today’s Opening Range stocks are all in bright red, which means they are … Read More