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Want to Make Money
Fast? Try These
Trading Strategies
Many of the following strategies are popular ... short-term strategies besides
day trading. For example, swing trading involves buying a stock early
in the week and selling it a few days later. Another short-term trading
strategy, called position trading, ... successfully, it’s worth your time
to learn how this popular investment product works.
Trading on News
Like day trading, trading stocks based on the news is a difficult method
to play and win. It’s impossible...
... sell holdings.
The Gap TradingStrategies
Each of the four gap types has a long and short trading signal, defining the eight
gap trading strategies. The basic tenet of gap trading is to allow ... and are familiar with.
How successful is this?
In simple terms, the Gap TradingStrategies are a rigorously defined trading system
that uses specific criteria to enter and exit. Trailing stops ... Use Trading Rules?
In order to successfully trade gapping stocks, one should use a disciplined set of
entry and exit rules to signal trades and minimize risk. Additionally, gap trading
strategies...
... impact on the net benefits of trading
for different levels of trading patience, the valuation discounts of non-
granular portfolios under various more or less patient exit strategies, and
the likely ... based on those trading at or above $5 per share
(Common Ͼ$5) and those trading at less that $5 per share (Common Ͻ$5)
based on the time-series mean price of each common share.
Trading data are ... 38
CHAPTER
3 Momentum Trading for the
Private Investor 39
Alexander Molchanov and Philip A. Stork
Abstract 39
Introduction 39
Data 40
Momentum Trading Results 41
Robustness Tests 45
Trading with a Volume...
... on trading techniques and trading
discipline oers numerous personal qualities
that have an impact on trading success. Com-
bining planning and control concepts with the
qualities of good trading ... Smarts—High Probability Short Term Trading Strategies.
e following is an interview that I conducted with Linda focusing on methods for trading ETFs.
Vomund: Is it worth day -trading ETFs?
Raschke: In ... market outlook,
trading strategy, and trading setups prior to each trading day.
Whenever I meet an inexperienced trader I am usually asked, “What is
the key to successful trading? ” or “How...
... important
implications in the area of program trading. Among the financial media and those
who haven't acquired intermarket awareness, "program trading& quot; is often unfairly
blamed for ... without any consideration of what caused the program
trading in the first place. We'll deal with the controversial subject of program trading
in Chapter 14.
BASIC PREMISES OF INTERMARKET ... Chapter
13.
Chapter 14 will consider whether program trading is really a cause of stock
market moves—or, as the evidence seems to indicate, whether program trading is itself
an
effect
of
events
in
...
... the dollar
formed an intermediate bottom and started to rally. Bonds were stable but locked
in a trading range. Figure 5.3 shows that the eventual upside breakout in bonds was
delayed for another ... versus CRB Index
1985 through 1989
the period from 1985 through the third quarter of 1989. Figure 5 .15 shows the mark
leading the CRB Index lower in May of 1989 (coinciding with bullish breakout in ... more frequent turning points that occur
COMBINING THE DOLLAR, GOLD, AND THE CRB INDEX 71
FIGURE 5 .15
THE DEUTSCHE MARK VERSUS THE CRB INDEX FROM SEPTEMBER 1988 TO SEPTEMBER 1989.
FROM DECEMBER TO...
... components of the JOC Index were chosen
92 THE DOLLAR VERSUS INTEREST RATES AND STOCKS
FIGURE 6 .15
GOLD
VERSUS
THE
STOCK
MARKET
FROM 1982
TO
1989.
GOLD
USUALLY DOES
BEST
IN
AN INFLATIONARY ... to
monitor interest rates on a global scale.
Any unilateral central bank tightening by overseas trading partners (usually to
stem fears of rising domestic inflation) or U.S. easing will be supportive ... in performing intermarket analysis is not to
do economic analysis, but to aid analysts in making trading decisions. The perti-
nent question is which of the two commodity indexes fit into the intermarket...
... preoccupation with such things as program trading as the primary cause
of the U.S. selloff becomes harder to justify as an adequate explanation. If program
trading caused the U.S. selloff, how do ... didn't have program trading at the time? Clearly, there were and are
much larger economic forces at work on the world stage. In Chapter 14, I'll have
more to say about program trading.
The second ... Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers.)
The CRB Index measures the current trading activity of 21 raw materials every
15 seconds. (A futures contract on the CRB Index was initiated in 1986 by...
... $200 an ounce to mine gold and gold is trading at $350,
the company will reap a profit of $150 . If gold rises to $400, it will appreciate in
value by only 15 percent ($50/$350), whereas the company's ... it wasn't until the end of October and early November
GOLD
VERSUS
GOLD
MINING
SHARES
153
FIGURE 9.2
ANOTHER COMPARISON OF GOLD AND THE S&P GOLD MINING INDEX FROM 1985 TO
JANUARY ... 4.8
percent. The British government had already raised the base interest rate from 7.5
percent to 15 percent from mid-1988 to October of 1989. There was fear that another
rate hike was in the offing....
... left shows the relative ratio (individual commodity divided
by the CRB Index) over the past 25 trading days. Column 4 uses a longer span of
100 days. While the longer time span might be more ... THE WEAKEST OF THE PRECIOUS METALS AND UNDERPERFORMED THE CRB
INDEX BY 4 PERCENT IN THE PRIOR 100 TRADING DAYS. UPSIDE BREAKOUTS IN SILVER FU-
TURES AND THE SILVER/CRB RATIO ARE NEEDED TO TURN THE ... stock groups, a topic discussed in Chapter 9.
SUMMARY
The Dow Jones Utility Average (which includes 15 utility stocks) is the most
widely-watched utility index. Because utility stocks are so interest...
... futures.
By selling short, a trader actually makes money in falling markets. The nature of
futures trading makes short selling as easy as buying. As a result, futures professionals
have no bullish ... bonds as well
as the short-term Eurodollar market. Stock index futures offer a basket approach to
trading general trends in the stock market. Foreign currency futures and the U.S Dollar
Index provide ... commodity portion of the futures
markets as a separate asset class and utilizes a basket approach to trading those 21
commodities included in the CRB Index.
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Intermarket Analysis
and the Business...