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I’ve been thinking much more about strategy and planning. I’m appreciating even more how the fruits to be had from this approach. This hit home really well when on Friday 25th July 2015, I achieved a good profit on some trades, shown below. On reflection what I did very differently was to select Athenahealth carefully ...
It’s a long story and an very important one for all traders – what Fibonacci is about. Why is Fibonacci so powerful? It is an operating principle in nearly every sphere of our existence. Some have referred to it as the hand of God or God’s fingerprint. Fibonacci in socio-economics After many months of interacting ...
Spreadbetting is about leveraging*. In spreadbetting a bet may be only £1. What does that mean in real terms? A share can be worth £50 today on the stock market but on leveraging platforms it may appear as 5000 points (bear in mind that I’m only using the word ‘share’ conveniently because you don’t own ...
MACD is a useful indicator in many situations. As always it ought not to be used on it’s own to make decisions about probabilities of price movement. It is like most indicators, a lagging indicator. That means that it looks back (all any indicator can do) at price and gives a representation of what was ...
The chart below is of BITCOIN (BTCUSD). Some people would have lost a pile of money on just a 10p bet even though they had stop-losses in place. No – this didn’t happen to me. What this means is that there are hidden dangers in playing very volatile instruments. You have to know the name ...
Many new traders will find the whole business of ‘understanding’ what’s going on to be mind-boggling. After all there is so much new terminology and concepts to put together. Charts often appear to be confused and even video materials seem so filled with jargon. All this could be real deterrent to new traders finding their feet ...
When I first started off trading, I had my doubts about whether the concept of support (and resistance) was actually for real. The chartS below are some fine examples that demonstrate the power of the concept. Support means that which resists falling through the floor. It’s just like a floor actually. Floors do break on ...
The Guppy system uses a concept called the Count Back Line (CBL), in order to find a reasonable stop-loss when deciding to enter a trade. A word of caution: the CBL only assists in certain ways below. Selecting a trade under the Guppy system involves SIX tests of which CBL is just one part. Those ...
When you say ‘Guppy’, most people think of the fish. So, I’ve put up an image of the fish – but this has more to do with ‘fishing’ than with fish. Very strange indeed. I have to admit I saw his system many months ago and at that time when I saw ‘Guppy trading’, I ...
The gap strategy is about profiting from panic in the markets. It takes some careful study. It can work on any instrument representing major indices (eg GER30, US30) At the outset I should say that this is one strategy that should be practised carefully on demo accounts repeatedly to see what happens. For sure you ...
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