Articles on institutional positioning, options flow, price action, and the neuroscience of trading.
Do you find yourself repeating the same mistakes in trading over and over again? Perhaps failing to pull the trigger when you have a perfect setup right in front of you? Or find yourself afraid to take a new trade for fear of losing? How about ‘knowing’ what to do, but being unable to do…
There are many ‘funded’ trading programs out there such as TopStepTrader, The 5%ers, SMB Capital and more. But should you actually join these funded trading programs? In today’s video, I dive into several of them in detail, and what I found was somewhat shocking. Hence don’t forget to watch this video to see whether you…
What Are Long-Term Equity Anticipation Options? LEAP options are simply option contracts with expiration dates that are one year or longer in duration. Other than the length of the expiration date being 1 year plus, they are technically and functionally the same as other listed options. If you remember from our option trading 101 article,…
In our article on how to invest in stocks, we talked about investing in individual stocks and also investing in index funds. Index funds are simply a fund that tracks a market index by investing in the individual components of that index. Index funds are managed by fund managers whose job is to make sure…
If you want to learn how to read candlestick charts, find high probability candlestick patterns, and learn to read the price action + order flow, then make sure to watch this video. In this video on candlestick chart trading, I cover some of the most important patterns you can learn to read in the charts…
What’s Inside? What are some forex day trading strategies you can use? Do you recommend any rules for day trading forex? Will I need particular skills to day trade the forex market? A Personal Note From Me: I’ve never been a trader who could only trade higher time frames, or only lower time frames. Technically…
Trading options can be utilized alongside your stock trading (or in isolation) to generate income (i.e. selling premium), hedge your risk (long put protection) or by trading volatility (short or long). It is important to note, option trading is without a doubt more complex than buying or selling stocks. Hence its important to get a…
Since the first year of this new millenium, every day, before I start trading (or anything for that matter), there is one thing I am always doing 1+ hour a day: Meditation. During this roughly 5300 day period, I have been practicing meditation within a buddhist and yogic tradition. Working with a meditation teacher the…
Day trading can be a highly lucrative form of trading because of the sheer volume of trades you are taking. Very much like the online poker player, who plays as many tables as possible to maximize their edge and profit, day trading works under the same vein. Trade a lot more for smaller profits, and…
In terms of reading the price action context and making trading decisions, there is not much difference between swing trading and day trading. The biggest difference between the two styles of trading is the holding time, trade frequency and cost per trade. We’ll take a look at each of these in detail, but before we…