The uncertain condition of today’s economy is not encouraging investors. This lowered investment trend can be traced back to the past 5 years where investments have been slow with subscriptions to how to manage your investment holdings magazines taking a dip. Many investors are uneasy over investing their money into a volatile market as stocks …
Category Archive: Investing
Jan 04
The Guts of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
Senator Bernie Sanders voiced his disagreement to President Obama’s big trade deal. Organized labor in the U.S. argued, during the negotiations, that the trade deal would largely benefit corporations at the expense of workers in the manufacturing and service industries. The Economic Policy Institute and the Center for Economic and Policy Research have argued that …
Jan 04
Market Timing and Market Forecasting
A few decades ago, it was widely believed that the most effective way to analyze the markets for trade was to determine the fundamentals, such as the number of bushels in storage, the current demand figures, the expected harvest yield, etc. Many assumed that Technical Analysis was not useful. Reasons given were that price action …
Jan 04
Brexit and Trump Were Shocks – Here’s What’s Coming Next
It started with the Brexit vote in the UK, and then Trump’s victory in the US. These two votes sent shock waves throughout the world, as none of the political elite could ever have imagined such results could possibly happen. But they did happen, and there are plenty more shock waves to come. Over the …
Jan 04
13 Futures Markets For Automated Breakout Strategies
One of the frequent questions I keep receiving is what is the complex list of markets that are suitable for automated trading strategies. Let me give you a short overview of 13 markets that I know that you can develop interesting automated trading strategies for. US Index markets: TF, EMD, YM, ES American index markets …
Jan 04
Why You Should Be Careful With Too Small Stop-Loss
In the past, I met several traders, that experienced live results completely different from their backtest results. The cause was a seeming triviality – too small stop-loss. Let me explain to you today, why this can be a problem, what to be aware of and how to avoid this danger. The following topic is just …
Jan 04
5 Reasons Why to Add Swing Strategies to Your Portfolio
Recently, I received several questions, why an ATS trader should also spend time developing swing strategies (and not only day trading strategies). In this article, I would like to sum up the most important points why I consider it important to have swing systems in a portfolio as well. 1. Swing strategies are a great …
Jan 04
Auto Binary Signals – A Revolutionary Trading Method
Binary options have always been hailed as an easy path for beginners into the world of trading and profits. While a simple Put/Call binary option equation is indeed simple enough, and while it’s wholly transparent as well, its strategy implications are almost infinitely convoluted. Because of the payout rates (which are in the 70-89% range), …
Jan 04
Trading Strategies And Tips For Binary Options
Trading strategies and tips for binary options is information gathered by one who is determined, disciplined and has the drive to put a blueprint to together and follows it in detail, every time a trade is made. Rules are very important to follow when dealing with any amount of money you are trading to make …
Jan 04
Preparing for the New Trump Economy
Well, now that that’s over with, where to next? Truthfully, I’m disappointed the Fed raised interest rates last week. I expected as much, though I saw reasons why a rate hike would be ill-advised and should have been avoided. There are simply too many deleterious impacts on massively indebted U.S. consumers, American multinational companies slammed …