Using the Opening Swing to Improve Your Trading

Merritt BlackFutures, General Comments, Intraday Levels, market structure, Technical Plays, Traders Ask, Trading Conversations

Last Friday, during our weekly Trading Conversations webinar, we had a lot of great questions from our community – like we do most weeks! One question was about analyzing stocks right around the open, from the first minute to the first hour or so of trade. Keeping with the live and interactive spirit of Trading Conversations, I asked users to … Read More

Trading Oracle

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In this video, Mike Bellafiore, shares a trade in ORCL from today that highlights how to think though a trade. Mike combines the news, technicals, indicators, trend, and more to walk you through a trade from today.

Entering a Bearish Butterfly Late in the Trading Cycle

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In this video, Seth Freudberg talks about entering a bearish butterfly late in a trading cycle. Sometimes options traders, for capital reasons, are forced into entering options trades later than normal. This video discusses a way to enter the bearish butterfly strategy later than its prescribed start date. This approach takes advantage of the basic premise of the bearish butterfly–that … Read More

Using VWAP to gain a trading edge

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Newer traders often ask us “which indicators are best?” Maybe you have one or more of these indicators on your chart: MACD Bollinger Bands RSI Stochastics SMA EMA Parobolic SAR and on and on and on It must be very confusing for the new and developing trader to find technical analysis tools to gain a trading edge.  It must be … Read More

Happiness precedes trading success

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  Many traders believe they will be happy after they become profitable.  In fact, first comes happiness, which then can dramatically propel elite performance. Shawn Archer author of The Happiness Advantage, explains in this article Positive Intelligence: In fact, it works the other way around: People who cultivate a positive mind-set perform better in the face of challenge. I call … Read More