The one-bar or one-candle trailing stop loss aggressively moves the stop loss as each bar or candle closes. This reduces risk quickly, locks in profits, and prevents holding through a pullback. Use from the outset of a trade, or once...
Educational articles on swing trading stocks including strategies, risk management, and other tactics.
A trade trigger is a precise event that tells you to get into or out of a trade, right now. It helps avoid getting in or out too early, too late, skipping trades, or taking trades you shouldn’t. You need...
The Stock Swing Trading Mini-Course is designed to give the essentials of what you need to swing trade stocks effectively, as well as several strategies. The stock swing trading mini-course covers: The basics of setting orders.Where to place a stop...
False breakouts frustrate many new traders. Pros know they are a part of trading and a huge opportunity. Here’s how to use them to your advantage. You come up with a trade idea based on an important technical level. It...
Price action trading relies solely on the price chart for making trading decisions. Price movement is the purest indicator traders have. Price determines profit and loss, nothing else. Price action traders believe the price tells you everything you need to...
We got into a trade expecting big profits, but instead, the exact opposite happened. Now we’re losing big on a trade and don’t what to do. Do we hold it hoping for a turnaround? Get rid of the position and...
Learn four tools that will help you spot stock market bottoms. They will tell you when it’s time to start buying stocks again and when conditions are favorable for swing trading stocks on the long side. As swing traders, we...
Averaging down is adding to a position as the trade loses money. The logic is that buying at lower prices reduces the cost of the position. This increases the gain if the price goes back up, or gets the trader...
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