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Our technical analysis and active trading writers take a closer look at strategies and charting techniques while introducing you to the ways in which you can incorporate them into your set of investing skills.

An Introduction To Consensus Indicators

Learn how the herd is almost always wrong, or at least late in jumping on the bandwagon.

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Identifying Market Trends

The success or failure of your long- and short-term investing depends on recognizing the direction of the market.

Learn how the economic term "price taker" may separate investors from traders.

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Using Trading Indicators Effectively

Select multiple indicators, avoid information overload and optimize indicators to effectively use technical analysis tools.

If you're in a trading rut, ask yourself these five questions to help turn the corner.

Wise traders rely on indicators that show a trend in volume, because without supportive volume, a price movement has no conviction.

The following five rules will help traders find high profit potential, low risk, intra-day trades.

Learn about what is being dubbed the low-volatility anomaly, why it exists and what we can learn from it.

We take a closer look at ascending and descending triangles to help traders predict the ultimate breakout direction.

The three types of triangle continuation patterns look different, yet provide similar information. Find out how.

Here are the guidelines for making trading decisions using the force index in both a short and intermediate perspective.

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Discovering The Force Index

Learn how to measure the power of bulls behind rallies and bears behind declines.

Flags and pennants indicate direction of activity of the prevailing trend. Learn how.

Use this indicator to validate a change in price direction and moving averages.

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Continuation Patterns: An Introduction

Those random movements in the charts actually form patterns. Learn the basics of what these patterns are.

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Introduction To The Arms Index

Developed in 1967 by Richard Arms, this volume-based breadth indicator can be applied over various time periods.

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4 Ways To Predict Market Performance

There is academic evidence supporting different market views. Learn how and why the market can be predicted.

These indicators serve as confirmation for those of us who need to double check our findings on a regular basis.

Emerging markets like India are fast becoming engines for future growth. Find out how to get in on the ground floor.

There are human tendencies that can block the road toward achieving our financial goals. Here's how to get around them.

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Divergence: The Trade Most Profitable

Comparing price swings helps traders gain insight into price momentum.

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4 Factors That Shape Market Trends

Trends allow traders and investors to capture profits. Find out what's behind them.

Emotion drives the market more than you might realize. Find out how psychology affects support and resistance zones.

Being a successful trader means knowing when to play the market and how. Find out what strategies will have you on top.

Use of support and resistance zones can be a key to successful trades. Learn how they work and how to use them.

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Be Aware Of The Hindenburg

This indicator can protect your profits from going into a tailspin.

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The Utility Of Trendlines

Trendlines give an investor a good idea of the direction an investment might move in. Discover how to make them work for your portfolio.

Clear the dead weight from your office, your portfolio and your mind to make room for profits.

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The 7 Pitfalls Of Moving Averages

While moving averages can be a valuable tool, they are not without risk. Discover the pitalls and how to avoid them.

Capitalize on the difference in spreads between markets with this popular strategy.

Find out how investing success can be more about your mindset and less about the markets.

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Are You Under Or Overtrading?

Under and overtrading can lessen an investor's profits. Find out how to fix these issues with a trading plan.

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Understanding Liquidity Risk

Make sure that your trades are safe by learning how to measure the liquidity risk.

Learn all about premium bonds and how you can make them work for you.

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Finding Success Where Indicators Fail

Trade what you see: Follow the charts, buy breakouts and honor stops. We'll look at a case study to show you how.

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Sector Rotation: The Essentials

We look at how the market signals impending economic cycles and sector performance during each stage.

Automated trading systems minimize emotions, allow for faster order entry, lead to greater consistency and resolve pilot-error problems.

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What Can Traders Learn From Investors?

Discover tips from a long-term strategy that can help you make better short-term trades.

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Backtesting: Interpreting The Past

We offer some tips on this process that can help refine your current trading strategies.

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What The Market Open Tells You

The first few moments of trading provide a lot of information. If a trader analyzes this information, it can give a lot of insight into the market's moves for the day.

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Trading With VWAP And MVWAP

Volume weighted average price (VWAP) and moving volume weighted average price (MVWAP) are trading tools that can be used by all traders to make sure they are getting the best price.

This momentum indicator was designed to predict when major market moves would occur.

Like most allegedly sure-fire methods in the investment industry, this one has its flaws too.

We teach you how to confirm buy and sell signals by comparing two very simple indicators.

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A Guide To Hedge Fund Startup Services

We review some options, service providers and processes you can follow while starting up your hedge fund.

Momentum traders are always trying to ride the herd. In these three situations, however, they may end up getting trampled.

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Day Trading Strategies For Beginners

From picking the right type of stock to setting stop-losses, learn how to trade wisely.

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An In-Depth Look At The Swap Market

The swap market plays an important role in the global financial marketplace; find out what you need to know about it.

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Intro To The Cattle Crush

The cattle crush makes it possible to utilize hedging opportunities as a risk management technique.

Averaging down is a trumpeted strategy that has merit, but when it is used carelessly, it can amount to throwing money away.

Triple and double tops and bottoms may be tough to spot, but once you learn them, they can be powerful patterns.

Volume is a simple yet powerful way for traders and investors to increase their profits and minimize risks.

The head-and-shoulders chart pattern is a popular and easy-to-spot pattern - once a trader is aware of what they are watching for.

To "find your game" in technical analysis, you need to be able to recognize reversals and continuations as they form.

Market psychology is an undeniably powerful force. Find out what you can do about it.

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4 Common Active Trading Strategies

Learn four of the most popular active trading strategies and why active trading isn't limited to professional traders anymore.

Discover what on-balance volume, accumulation/distribution and open interest can tell you about the market mood.

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Black Swan Events And Investment

These world-changing events are rare and difficult to predict, but the implications for your investments need to be taken seriously.

Read about a market-neutral trading strategy using relatively low-risk positions.

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Point And Figure Charting Basics

Learn how to construct and read these price charts designed to highlight entry and exit points for longer-term positions.

Use this indicator to gauge the end of a price trend.

The Herrick Payoff Index and New-High New-Low Index are some of the more interesting (and often complex) measures of crowd psychology.

The tenets of market psychology underlie each and every charting tool.

From samurai to sushi, there's no denying the East Asian influence on investing terminology.

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Introduction To Swing Trading

This style, between day trading and trend trading, may be a good one for beginners to try.

Learn how to combine average true range, simple moving average and Bollinger band indicators to gauge market volatility.

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How To Build A Trading Indicator

Wondering how people like Elliott and Gann built their famous trading tools? Learn the basics of constructing an indicator.

Learn about the different traders and explore in detail the broader approach that focuses on company-specific events.

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Introduction To Momentum Trading

This trading style offers major profit potential thanks to the powerful way in which momentum can drive a stock.

Unfortunately, there is no perfect investment strategy that will guarantee success, but you can find the indicators and strategies that will work best for your position.

It's time to acquaint yourself with some lesser-known yet effective technical indicators.

Being aware of other markets and other trading methods can help traders fine tune methods, save costs and add profits.

In a choppy market, following charts can be extremely difficult - the APZ technical indicator may become your best friend.

Binary or digital options are a simple way to trade price fluctuations in multiple global markets.

Learn the difference between relative strength and the relative strength index, a frequently used technical analysis oscillator.

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Introduction To Trading: Scalpers

This type of trader makes many trades per day to "scalp" a small profit from each trade. Find out how it works.

Investing has ways to successfully accommodate a variety of personalities. Learn how to align your trading with your traits.

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Measure Momentum Change With ROC

Learn how to build a price rate of change indicator and incorporate it in your strategy.

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Can Regular Investors Beat The Market?

With the big name competition out there, hard-working people who invest have a tough time beating the market.

You may be missing some key statistics when following charts in the market.

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3 Key Signs Of A Market Top

Learn the best ways to foresee market corrections and how to profit from them.

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Trailing-Stop Techniques

The important decision to exit a position must be based on more than emotion if you want to be a disciplined trader.

This tweak on moving averages gives traders faster access to the information they need.

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When Not To Trade

When conditions arise where systems are likely to perform poorly, traders must exercise discipline and cease trading.

Learn how to recognize and adapt to tough times in the markets.

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Know Your Counterparty When Day Trading

This can provide insight into how the market is likely to act based on your presence, orders and transactions.

Succeeding as a contrarian is all about knowing when to act on your opinion about the next turn in the market.

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Weighted Moving Averages: The Basics

We take a closer look at the linearly weighted moving average and the exponentially smoothed moving average.

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Premier Stochastic Oscillator Explained

This oscillator has been used since the 1950s by traders and investors to anticipate areas where the market may change direction.

While range bars are not a type of technical indicator, traders can employ this useful tool to identify trends and interpret volatility.

Make your trading safer and more streamlined by following these simple guidelines.

A trading referee can greatly improve your outlook (and success) in the market.

In the long run, one of the best approaches to successful trading might be melding these two seemingly disparate methods together.

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When Geographic Diversification Fails

Geographic diversification is becoming an ineffective investing strategy, but there are others that pay off in the long term.

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Profit Without Predicting The Market

Traders who try to predict the future can actually harm their trading options.

Find out how to create well-designed charts that will enhance your market analysis.

This practice is common with experienced and new traders, and it can lead to huge losses. Find out how to avoid it.

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Evaluating Paid Investing Newsletters

There are many different newsletters available, and investors must decide which is most appropriate for their investing style.

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How To Deal With Trading Malfunctions

A little preparation will make sure you protect your trading space from everyday difficulties.

Using the right strategy can lower the risk of failure and protect your profits.

Find out how stochastics are used to create buy and sell signals for traders.

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Top 10 Rules For Successful Trading

Whether you're a novice or an expert, these 10 rules should be the backbone of your trading career.

Sometimes you have to be a predator to profit. Find out how to cash in on false breakouts.

These tools will help you enter at high-probability points and ensure you trade within your set strategy.

Correlations between backtesting and forward performance testing results can help you optimize your trading system.

Elder-ray helps determine the strength of competing groups of bulls and bears so you know when to buy and when to short.

This powerful tool not only filtrates market noise but also tends to be a leading rather than lagging indicator.

Trying to pick the absolute top and bottom points can lead to excessive losses. This strategy allows you to hedge your risk.

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Using Feedback To Improve Your Trading

Positive and negative trading experiences can affect the way you trade. Find out how.

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Can You "Learn" The Stock Market?

All of the knowledge in the world won't ensure the perfect trade every time - but is it possible to improve your odds in the market?

It's time to acquaint yourself with these lesser-known yet effective technical indicators.

We take a look at these chart intervals and how we can use them to our advantage.

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Simple Vs. Exponential Moving Averages

These technical indicators help investors to visualize trends by smoothing out price movements.

Learn how this momentum indicator is used to determine price action on a stock.

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3 Reasons Not To Trade Range Breakouts

Trading range breakouts is unprofitable for most novice traders; here are some alternatives that can be used.

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The Nitty-Gritty Of Executing A Trade

Ever wonder what happens behind the scenes when you buy or sell a stock? Read on and find out!

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Finding The Right Trading Coach

If you're looking to master the art of trading, you may think you need an expert trader. What you may really need is an expert teacher.

Accounting practices have matured, but there are still plenty of ways that companies can disguise their financial results.

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Cashing In On A Commodities Boom

They're hard to predict, but commodities cycles provide valuable information for traders.

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Understanding BRIC Investments

Brazil, Russia, India and China are becoming more popular for investing, but there is still plenty of risk among BRIC countries.

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Create Your Own Trading Strategies

Do-it-yourself trading can be very rewarding - both psychologically and for your wallet.

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Quit Your Job To Trade Stocks?

Ready to quit your day job and become a full-time trader? These tips will help you determine your area of expertise.

Gain an advantage in the markets by understanding how to win in a negative-sum game.

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Trade Simple, Trade Smart

Simplicity can be a trader's best friend. Here is a simple day trading strategy which takes advantage of a stock's dynamics.

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Break Out Of Your Comfort Zone And Win

Fear of breaking out of a comfort zone can prevent an investor from reaching his or her full potential.

Use stop-loss and take-profit points to your advantage with these strategies.

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Direct Access Trading Systems

DATs can dramatically speed up order execution - find out how this system gives novice traders an edge.

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Momentum Indicates Stock Price Strength

Momentum can be used with other tools to be an effective buy/sell indicator.

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Traders: Work Less, Make More Money

Cut down on homework by screening for stocks that tend to make large intraday moves.

If you want to use candlestick charting to get a sense of where a stock is headed, you need to learn how to read this unique charting language.

Take a look at continuation patterns and how they can confirm or deny trends.

The top-down investment strategy depends on economy and market strength. Find out what you should know before jumping in.

Crowd psychology is the reason this technique works. Find out how to make it work for you.

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Candlestick Charting: What Is It?

Discover the components and basic patterns of this ancient technical analysis technique.

Learn about the different traders and explore in detail the broader approach that looks to the past to predict the future.

A soft stop provides a trader with added flexibility, allowing him to react to ongoing changes in the market.

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Finding Market Movement With The ADX

Take a closer look at this indicator, which refines your insight into the strength of a prevailing trend.

Don't ignore that gut feeling - it might just be leading you in the right direction.

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Peak-and-Trough Analysis

Prices never move in straight lines, so it's time to learn about this powerful trend-following technique.

Scoring huge profits in a demo account doesn't mean you can expect this performance in real trading.

The quest for this shiny commodity has made millionaires of paupers and, on the flip side, ruined many an investor.

Altering your entry and exit strategy could save you a lot of money in fees. Find out how to pad your bottom line.

On their own, single-day patterns can be unreliable, but that doesn't mean they can't be used effectively.

Find out how volume, the Aroon indicator and Fibonacci numbers can improve your profits.

Find out how following a trendline bounce or a new swing high or low can help you get into a trend early.

Proper hedges help to contain your losses while still allowing profits to grow.

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The Multiple Lives Of A Stock Trader

Any trading career will have its ups and downs. Find out how to maximize the good times.

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How To Break Bad Trading Habits

It isn't making money on each trade that counts, but developing a long-term plan that works.

Don't fear the deep end. Dark pool liquidity can help drive down stock cost for everyday investors.

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Elliott Wave Theory

Acquaint yourself with the principle built on the discovery that stock markets did not behave in a chaotic manner.

You need to understand the various phases of the market cycle to avoid bubbles and make the best investments.

Jesse Livermore's investing philosophy wasn't foolproof, but he's still recognized as one of the greatest traders in history.

Make sure you know the difference between a change in market outlook and short-term recovery.

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An Introduction To Oscillators

Find out how this indicator may help improve the average investor's entry and exit points.

Learn to pounce on the opportunity that arises when other traders run and hide.

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Maximize Profits With Volatility Stops

Find out which type of volatility stop fits your trading objectives.

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Quant Strategies - Are They For You?

Using the power of modern computers and the input of many financial experts, these models automatically execute trades for you.

This phenomenon can cause a trader to abandon a proven strategy or risk everything on chance. Find out how to avoid it.

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Optimal Position Size Reduces Risk

Finding the right position size can minimize loss for a trader. Find out how.

Learn how to confirm your analysis based on intermarket trends by watching global markets and particular stocks to pinpoint reversals.

Active investment management offers little advantage in the secondary capital markets.

Trading through a separate business structure allows active traders access to all of the tax mitigation and asset protection strategies available.

The top-down investment strategy depends on economy and market strength. Find out what you should know before jumping in.

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Spotting Trend Reversals With MACD

Knowing when trends are about to reverse is tricky business, but the MACD can help.

Though all portfolios contain some risk, there are ways to lower it. Find out how.

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The Basics Of Bollinger Bands

This strategy has become one of the most useful tools for spotlighting extreme short-term price moves.

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Profiting From Panic Selling

When everyone rushes to dump their stocks, you may find yourself with a great buying opportunity. Learn about it here.

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Trading The Gold-Silver Ratio

This method may seem arcane, but many well-established strategies rely on it.

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The Linear Regression Of Time and Price

This investment strategy can help investors be successful by identifying price trends while eliminating human bias.

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Finding Solid Buy-And-Hold Stocks

Find out how to look at the big picture - even when the market's short-term outlook is less than rosy.

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Pyramid Your Way To Profits

This strategy involves scaling into profitable investments as they continue to rise.

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Limiting Losses

It is impossible to avoid them completely, but there is a systematic method you can use to control them.

VIX can gauge when the market has hit bottom - a welcome sign of better things to come.

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Mastering Short-Term Trading

Making money in a pressure-cooker environment is all about minimizing risk on hot picks.

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Introduction To The Parabolic SAR

Take a closer look at this indicator, which during a trending period, is a very useful and accurate tool.

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Stock Market Risk: Wagging The Tails

The bell curve is an excellent way to evaluate stock market risk over the long term.

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Turtle Trading: A Market Legend

In 1983, an expert trader decided to coach 14 novice traders. The results were astounding.

Learn how to successfully trade pullbacks and to avoid being crushed by "falling safes."

These complex indicators can help traders interpret trend changes, but are they too good to be true?

Find out how to file a claim with your broker and what you can expect throughout the process.

The moving average is easy to calculate and, once plotted on a chart, is a powerful visual trend-spotting tool.

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The Rectangle Formation

Find out how this technical pattern can be useful in your trading arsenal.

Two indicators are usually better than one. Find out how this pairing can enhance your trading.

Point-and-figure charts eliminate the noise surrounding a stock to help you determine where it's headed.

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A Holistic Approach To Trading Gold

Combine technicals and fundamentals to tune out noise and confirm trends in this commodity.

The A/D line highlights buying and selling pressure to confirm existing trends.

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Moving Average Bounce

Find out how this simple trading strategy can be added into your trading arsenal.

Traders can benefit from experimenting with envelopes, which help spot trends after they develop.

Stock prices seem random, but there are repeating cycles. Learn to take advantage.

Leading indicators help investors to predict and react to where the market is headed.

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Finding Value In A Sideways Market

When the market is non-directional, your profit potential need not go sideways too.

Find out how you can change your investing strategy based on market conditions.

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Buy High, Sell Much Higher

Value investing may seem fool-proof, but it carries more risk than you might know.

The RS strategy seems counterintuitive, but there is evidence to show that it works.

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How To Use Gann Indicators

This trendline-like technical analysis tool has been around for decades - but it still works.

Combine trailing stops with stop-loss orders to reduce risk and protect portfolio value.

You can recover from your losses if you know how to use this handy trader's tool.

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The Market Participant Playbook

Find out what effect institutional investors have on the stock market and individual traders.

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Trading's 6 Biggest Losers

These "rogue traders" are famous for their billion-dollar mistakes.

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The Anatomy Of Trading Breakouts

We'll walk you through this trading strategy from start to finish.

Find entry or exit signals or develop a complete system based on this versatile tool.

Find out if taking the path less traveled will work in your favor - or against it.

Find more profitable entry and exit locations with this standard indicator.

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Four-Week Rule Boosts Winning Trades

Acquaint yourself with an indicator that played a role in the early development of technical analysis.

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Darvas Box Traps Elusive Returns

Follow a modern trade to see how this old strategy still captures profits today.

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Surf's Up With Filtered Waves

With an appropriate filter, you can ride the waters to rising profits.

It's impossible to avoid disaster without trading rules - make sure you know how to devise them for yourself.

Use correlations to profit when two specific instruments move in opposite directions.

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The Darvas Box: A Timeless Classic

This method helped its inventor turn $26,000 into $2 million. Many argue it still works.

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ADX: The Trend Strength Indicator

Follow this tool to reduced risk and increase profit potential.

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Western Line Vs. Candlestick Charting

These methods both have their merits, but they may be strongest when combined.

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Testing Point-And-Figure Patterns

Learn the patterns that will help you pinpoint and profit from breakouts.

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DMI Points The Way To Profits

The directional movement index tells you whether to go long, short or stand aside.

This influential strategy capitalizes on the relationship between price and liquidity.

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Price Pivots Circle Big Profits

Reading pivots will help you spot trends and use them to your advantage.

Morning, evening and doji stars will have you basking in better trading profits.

Learn a stop-loss strategy that will help you protect your gains when trading breaks.

Find out how you can combine the best of both strategies to better understand the markets.

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Would You Profit As A Day Trader?

Market timing is surrounded by controversy, but does it work?

What to know about stationary and non-stationary processes before you try to model or forecast.

Short-term and intermediate charts complement the underlying trend and refine entries and exits.

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A Primer On The MACD

Learn to trade in the direction of short-term momentum.

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Market Timing Fails As A Money Maker

This strategy is popular, but can you do it successfully?

Find out how to make sense of this tricky - but profitable - formation.

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Gauging Major Turns With Psychology

Knowing what the market is thinking is the best way to determine what it will do next.

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The Power Of Program Trades

Learn how programs make up a significant portion of the volume traded each day.

Learn how to short this reversal pattern with a favorable risk/reward ratio.

Spot extreme short-term price drops and profit on the rebound.

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Find A Trend With The Partial Retrace

Learn how to spot the pivot point from which a new movement will emerge.

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Support & Resistance Basics

Understanding this key concept can drastically improve your short-term investing strategy.

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A Look At Kagi Charts

This relatively unknown tool could help you find an asset's trend faster.

When a candle pattern re-occurs near a moving average, it may indicate future support or resistance.

Follow along with one of ChartAdvisor's failed trades and learn from our mistakes.

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Master Your Trading Mindtraps

Learn to overcome one of the biggest trading hurdles.

ChartAdvisor experts illustrate why it's important to stick to your strategy.

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Fundamental Analysis For Traders

Find out how this method can be applied strategically to increase profit.

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Support And Resistance Reversals

Discover how these influential levels can switch roles.

Take advantage of short-term price moves by pinpointing reversals.

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A Logical Method Of Stop Placement

If holding on to losing trades is human nature, this tool will help protect you from yourself.

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Candle Sheds More Light Than The MACD

Read the case against this well-established indicator.

Uncover the history and logic behind this popular trading tool.

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Trading Is Timing

Learn how to make gains even if you don't get in at the right time.

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Finding The Trend With Aroon

Don't be confused about whether a long-term trend will continue, stall or reverse.

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Neural Networks: Forecasting Profits

Take a look at the algorithmic approach to technical trading - you may never go back!

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The Ups And Downs Of Biotechnology

This volatile sector can provide huges gains, but there's also lots of downside.

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Anticipate Trends To Find Profits

Monitoring your trades in real-time can help you anticipate their outcomes.

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Lessons From A Trader's Diary

Discover what this trader learned from his mistakes and how to uncover your own.

Discover how put-call ratios and moving averages can be used to analyze investor behavior.

These two approaches aren't incompatible - learn how to get the best of both worlds.

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The Daily Routine Of A Swing Trader

From pre-market to after hours, see what you need to do to capture gains quickly.

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Trading Failed Breaks

Learn how to capitalize on the predictable behavior of others during breakouts and breakdowns.

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A Trader's Guide To Using Fractals

This reversal pattern can make sense of the seeming randomness of market movements and improve your trading.

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Trading Without Noise

False signals can drown out underlying trends. Find out how to tone them down and tune them out.

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Advanced Candlestick Patterns

Go beyond the basics! Learn to identify and trade island reversals, kicker patterns and more.

This straightforward histogram can help you analyze the buying and selling interest in a stock.

Learn to distinguish between a temporary price change and a long-term trend.

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Introduction To Level II Quotes

Find out what's happening in a given stock with this service showing Nasdaq market makers' best bid and ask prices.

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Advanced Fibonacci Applications

Extensions, clusters, channels and more! Discover new ways to put the "golden ratio" to work.

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Playing The Gap

See how you can profit from these disruptions in normal price patterns.

We look at different styles of scalping, and how they can all be very profitable.

We introduce how to use this oscillator, which identifies cyclical trends, for determining buy and sell points.

Discover how these provide the trader with insight into both the timing and scope of breakouts.

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Commodities: The Portfolio Hedge

These diverse asset classes can provide downside protection AND upside potential. Find out how to use them.

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Channeling: Charting A Path To Success

Find out how to build these charts showing buy, sell, stop-loss and take-profit points, and even estimate length of trade.

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Day Trading: An Introduction

Learn about this controversial way of investing.

Professional market players are some of the best models for the individual small trader to mimic.

Is it possible for applications simulating the human brain to make better trading decisions?

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Trading the Odds with Arbitrage

Profiting from arbitrage is not only for market makers--retail traders can find opportunity in risk arbitrage.

Traders don't have to be solitary to be successful--discover how to connect with fellow traders and experts.

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A Look At Exit Strategies

Avoid taking premature profits or running losses by setting appropriate exit points.

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Heikin-Ashi: A Better Candlestick

Enhance trend isolation and prediction of future prices with this technique.

We break down this indicator into simple, easy-to-understand pieces so you can profit.

Not sure how to determine your equity allocations? Read about a system that can help.

For a record-holding stock trader, CANSLIM is the formula that identifies this magic mix.

Learn about the strategies of one man who turned $11,000 into more than $18 million in 18 months.

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Survive The Trading Game

Gain insight into how a trader/programmer approaches the task of designing a trading system.

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Introduction to Swing Charting

Discover why traders use swing charts, how they construct them, and how they use them.

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Which Direction Is the Market Heading?

The easy and under-used NYSE Bullish Percent Index provides insight into market conditions.

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Catching A Lift On The Penny Express

The popularity of the penny stock market has grown, but are these stocks a safe bet?

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A Glance at an Equilibrium Chart

See how much the easy-to-use Ichimoku chart can tell you in just one glance.

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The Leap-Year Phenomenon

Find out whether traders can build a strategy around the behavior of the market in the presidential cycle.

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High-Tech Fibonacci

Advanced Fibonacci tools can provide accuracy without sacrificing readability.

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An Introduction To J-Charting

Learn about a technical tool that's based on the view that markets are energetic systems.

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Losing To Win

Adopting realistic win/loss expectations is essential to staying in the trading game.

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The Gann Studies

Learn why this pioneer of technical analysis believed it's possible to predict the future.

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Using Pivot Points For Predictions

Learn one of the most common methods of finding support and resistance levels.

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Gauging The Strength Of A Market Move

Learn how to apply the ACD technique to a longer time horizon.

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Fibonacci And The Golden Ratio

Discover how this amazing ratio, revealed in countless proportions throughout nature, applies to the financial markets.

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Spotting Breakouts As Easy As ACD

Wondering what it means to be a "logical trader"? Take a look at this system devised by Mark Fisher.

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Market Reversals And How To Spot Them

The sushi-roll indicator may help lower the risk of trying to pick market tops and bottoms.

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Profiting From The Bollinger Squeeze

Learn how Bollinger's "squeeze" can help you determine breakout direction.

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Using The VIX For Shorting

Find out how traders can use this tool to identify shorting opportunities.

Check out the returns this newer technical analysis tool would've yielded over the period from 1920 to 2003.

Divergences may signal a change in market direction, but traders must also identify the speed of that change.

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The Advantage of Intermarket Analysis

Analyzing a variety of markets around the world can provide powerful insight into trading opportunities.

Find out why the trading activity of owners and executives can be a valuable trade-confirmation tool.

Learn about this popular stock market valuation model and how accurate it has been over the years.

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Charting Your Way To Better Returns

Learn about the powerful hybrid techniques that take advantage of both technical and fundamental analysis.

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Investors Intelligence Sentiment Index

This indicator can give a overall sense of bull and bear forces - learn what it is and how it's constructed.

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Momentum Trading with Discipline

This type of strategy demands controlled decision making, requiring a continual refinement of entry and exit techniques.

Learn how to read these formations of horizontal trading patterns.

Adopt a sound exit strategy based on support and resistance levels while understanding the market psychology behind them.

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The Basics Of Money Flow

Learn how this indicator uses both price and volume to record a more complete picture of price action.

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Triple Screen Trading System - Part 8

Making use of the tightest stops in entering and exiting positions is what this three-part system is all about.

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Triple Screen Trading System - Part 7

The third and final screen of this system identifies the intraday price movements that pinpoint entry points for your buy or sell orders.

These two indicators together can give the trader a better understanding of when to get in and out of an issue.

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Triple Screen Trading System - Part 6

Williams %R can confirm the strength of trends and warn of reversals. Find out how to use it as the second screen in this triple-screen system.

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Speed Resistance Lines

Discover how to measure the line of an uptrend or a downtrend.

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Triple Screen Trading System - Part 5

Stochastics can be very effective as the second screen in this three-part system. Find out how to use this popular oscillator.

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Triple Screen Trading System - Part 4

How can a trader use the Elder-Ray oscillator as the second screen of this system? Find out here.

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Triple Screen Trading System - Part 3

Learn about market wave, the second screen in this three-part system.

Learn how to use a number of different indicators to know when to make your trading moves.

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Triple Screen Trading System - Part 2

Market tide is the basis for making trading decisions in this three-part system.

Confirm your buy and sell signals with this oscillator categorized as an overbought/oversold index.

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Triple Screen Trading System - Part 1

Learn to take advantage of both trend-following and oscillator techniques to analyze your trading decisions.

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Continuation Patterns - Part 2

Take a closer look at triangles, which appear in ascending, descending and symmetrical forms.

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