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Day Trading

How Technical Traders Can Benefit From Quantitative Analysis

Technical trading is such a diverse method of trading that you really can’t pigeonhole it. There’s trend traders, mean reversion traders, breakout traders, and pullback traders. You can trade support and resistance levels, forecast volume and volatility, or even do technical analysis on the VIX or the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet (maybe that’s not a […]

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Market Overview for Week of April 4, 2022

Meme stocks are back and yet again. After months of commentators creating narratives that the retail phenomenon experienced in 2020 and 2021 was simply aberration, often citing exchange volume data as proof, have yet again been dashed as this small group of stocks like GameStop (GME), and AMC Entertainment (AMC) and a sub-group of related […]

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island reversal pattern

Everything About the Island Reversal Pattern

The Island Reversal Pattern is a chart pattern that involves a gap in price, consolidation and then another gap in the opposite direction (creating an island of candles as you’ll see in the below charts). Intro In their attempt to understand the movement of prices in different financial markets, pioneers of technical analysis techniques have […]

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Small Account Guide

Most people who start out trading have a small account, which falls in the $25,000 or less category. Day trading in a small account requires agility and precision in your trading. You don’t have the luxury of a ton of cash to fall back on so trading decisions need to be well thought out and […]

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