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View ArticleImagine If You Can Effectively Manage Your Trading Risks
An investor once told me, “I want to buy stocks that have uptrend momentum, and yet are cheap right now”. “That’s what exactly AbleTrend Sweet Spot Entry can do for you” I replied. Here is an example...
View ArticleA taste of Volatility, September 2016
Remember what it was like when the market actually moved? Yesterday, we look at how just a bit of volatility has made the last few weeks fun again for traders. You’ll see that we would use the same...
View ArticleLow Risk or No Trade
“Suddenly Trading is Fun Again.” E-mini Nasdaq 100 Guidance Chart, P/L +$1,395/contract E-mini Nasdaq 100 Guidance Chart, P/L +$1,130/contract Take Care of the Risk First in Order to Make Profit While...
View ArticleHow to Avoid Missing Big Moves
It’s painful to let the trend go without being on board. Some traders feel that missing a big move is even more painful than having a losing trade. How to make sure you are in the market when the big...
View ArticleA Recent Comment from an AbleTrend User
Today I would like to share some comments from Jim Martin who successfully trades different markets with AbleTrend for many years. With his permission I have the privilege to share them with you here....
View ArticleBe There at the Right Place, at the Right Time
Recently the market has experienced an extended period of low volatility, which has made it just as important to know when not trade as when to trade. During the low volatility whipsaw market...
View ArticleWait for the Third Drum Roll
There is a Chinese saying that is inspired by a story from the Spring & Autumn Period in Chinese History. This was a period, during which the empire was divided between 12 warring states, so...
View ArticleSetting up S/R Alerts for Sweet Spots
The S/R alert is a function of AbleTrendTS. A previous post described using the S/R Alert to cue us into sweet spot trade setups. You can turn it on/off in the format indicators window: Under Format...
View ArticleBuy/Sell Alerts Just Before the Sweet Spots
Wasting time and energy by waiting along in a sideway market isn’t just frustrating, it’s the number one problem that day traders face. Sideways markets and false breakouts can trap traders into losing...
View ArticleImagining the Opposite – When the Sweet Spot Fails
In the First 20 Hours by Josh Kaufman, he describes 10 principles to effective learning. #4 ‘Imagine the Opposite of What’ helps you to identify important elements that aren’t immediately obvious. In...
View ArticleGeneralizing the Sweet Spot Case Study, Part 2
The last posting features the the visual screening process that we demoed on August 3rd, in which we built out the watch list for sweet spot candidates. Here’s what we saw that day when we look at...
View ArticleGeneralizing Sweet Spot Case Study, Part 1
The next few posts will be a bit of an extension from the last series of posts on the sweet spot case study, featuring the stock symbol WYNN. This week, the stock opened higher and had approached the...
View ArticleWYNN Case Study Part 5: Second Chance Entry
The previous post we looked at the perspective of holding a potential long position in WYNN, as prices started up off a sweetspot trade setup & the signal rolled into the daily. As I do in the...
View ArticleWYNN Case Study Part 4: Buy Signal Rolls through to Daily
In this series of posts, we’ve been looking at WYNN as an example of how a sweet spot trade can unfold. The beauty of this sort of trade setup is that if prices can start in the right direction, you...
View ArticleWYNN Case Study Part 3: The Art of War
Before we get to stage 3, which is where the signal actually rolls through to the daily chart, I wanted to relate what we’ve seen to The Art of War by Sun Tzu. In part 2 of this series, we described...
View ArticleWYNN Case Study Part 2: Reaching the first Road Block
In the last post, we reviewed the sweet spot signal setup in WYNN. We continue today’s post with a segment featuring a live observations a week later (1:53): Key takeaways: If the daily downtrend...
View ArticleWYNN Case Study: How a Sweet Spot Trade Develops: Part 1
In the past, we’ve talked a lot about the sweet spot trade setup for swing trading. Timing entries for weekly sweet spot gives us a number of benefits: Very constrained risk Big potential rewards...
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