44. How Successful Traders Use Indicators to Place Stops
www.informedtrades.com A lesson on how to incorporate the use of technical indicators when placing stops in the forex, futures, and stock market. In our last lesson we learned how many successful traders look for entry opportunities which allow them to set their stop so that there are multiple support or resistance points between their entry point and stop level, and few if any support or resistance points between their entry price and their target. In today's lesson we are going to look at another factor that many traders use when deciding where to place their stops, the use of technical indicators. As you hopefully remember from watching my previous lessons we have already covered two indicators and gone over specific strategies on how they can be used to set stops which are the Average True Range and the Parabolic SAR. While these indicators were designed specifically to help traders gauge where to place their stops, many of the other indicators which we have looked at using to pick trade entry points can also be used to decide when to exit a trade. With this in mind the question then becomes, with all the options available how do you choose which indicator if any to look at when deciding when to exit a trade. Which indicator if any you choose to include in your money management strategy for setting stops is going to depend largely on the type of strategy that you are trading. As a general rule however if you use an indicator to signal for example a buy entry on a <b>...</b>
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36. Two Trading Mistakes Which Will Destroy Your Account
www.informedtrades.com A lesson on two of the most common mistakes that traders make when trading the stock, futures and forex markets. One of the most common mistakes is sticking in a trade where you know you are right in your analysis, but the market continues to move against you. As the famous economist John Maynard Keynes once said: "The markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent" Perhaps one of the best examples of this are those who shorted the NASDAQ into the runup in 1999 and early 2000. At the time it was pretty obvious that from a value standpoint NASDAQ stocks were way overvalued and that people's expectations for growth that they were buying on were way out of line with reality. There were many great traders at the time who recognized this and began shorting the NASDAQ starting in late 99. As you can see from the below chart and the huge sell off that ensued after the peak in 2000, these traders were right in their analysis. Unfortunately for many of them however stocks continued to run up dramatically from already overvalued points in late 99 wiping out many of these traders who would eventually be proved correct. So as we learned about in last lesson, people's strong desire to be right will often times keep them in trades that they should have moved on from even though the market may eventually prove them correct. For those traders who are able to initially move on from trades where they feel they are correct but the market moves <b>...</b>
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20. How to Trade the MACD Indicator Like a Pro Part 1
www.informedtrades.com A lesson on how to trade the Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) in the stock, futures, and forex markets. The indicator, which was developed by Gerald Appel, is constructed by taking a 12 period exponential moving average of a financial instrument and subtracting its 26 period exponential moving average. The resulting line is then plotted below the price chart and fluctuates above and below a center line which is placed at value zero. A 9 period EMA of the MACD line is normally plotted along with the MACD line and used as a signal of potential trading opportunities in the stock, futures and forex markets. When the MACD line is above zero this tells the trader that the 12 period exponential moving average is trading above the 26 period exponential moving averages. When the MACD line is below zero this tells the trader that the 12 period exponential moving average is below the 26 period exponential moving average. Traders will watch the MACD line as when it is above zero and rising this is a sign that the positive gap between the 12 and 26 EMA's is widening, a sign of increasing bullish momentum in the financial instrument they are analyzing. Conversely when the MACD line is below zero and falling this represents a widening in the negative gap between the 12 and 26 day EMA's, a sign of increasing bearish momentum in the financial instrument they are analyzing. The purpose of the 9 period exponential moving average line is to further confirm <b>...</b>
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201. The Commitment of Traders (COT) Report
www.informedtrades.com The next lesson in my free futures trading course which covers the commitment of traders report. The futures brokerage platform being used in this video is Apex Futures. Click the following link for a free Apex Futures demo account: bit.ly
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Subprime: Is Mark to Market Accounting Marking Things Worse
www.informedtrades.com The third and final lesson in a 3 part mini series on the subprime crisis and specifically the role that mark to market accounting has played.
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Happy Holidays from InformedTrades - Review of 2009 and Look Forward to 2010
www.informedtrades.com A look back at the progress InformedTrades made in 2009, as well as a look forward to what's in store in 2010. Thanks for watching and being a part of the InformedTrades community, and have a safe and happy holiday season -- and profitable year ahead in trading!
InformedTrades Product Review of Prorealtime Charts
www.informedtrades.com A product review of the Prorealtime charting package for the global stock, futures, and foreign exchange markets.
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InformedTrades Community Analysis of Gold - August 2009
www.informedtrades.com Gold, gold, gold -- where is the price of gold headed? InformedTrades community members share their analyses. Watch this video to see what we're saying. If you'd like to chime in on the discussion or have any questions, join us over at www.informedtrades.com.
Invest in a Precious Metals Fund Traded by InformedTrades Founder Simit Patel
www.informedtrades.com Simit talks about why he's launching a precious metals fund, the details behind it, and encourages you to get involved. The initial share price is 500 InformedPoints ($50 USD). Simit buys the bulk of his gold through the following sources: Bullion Vault - bit.ly Golden Eagle Coins - bit.ly
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Trading the Russell 2000 www.informedtrades.com 11/5/2010
My day trading efforts on the Russell 2000 today. check out www.informedtrades.com check out my blog at: www.informedtrades.com
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4. Day Trading Lesson 4: The Basics of Charts
www.informedtrades.com The fourth lesson in a series on technical analysis for day traders of the forex, futures, and stock markets. The tool of the day trader when analyzing the forex, futures, or stock markets is the price chart. Very simply a price chart is a chart showing the movement of the price of a financial instrument over a chosen time. Most charts will allow a wide variety of time frames to be displayed and the time frame that day traders choose to use varies widely and depends on each traders trading style. In general, longer term traders will focus on daily time frames and above, and shorter term traders will focus on intraday charts such as hourly or 15 minute charts. Many traders will also use a combination of time frames in order to get a full picture of what price has been doing by, for instance, looking first at a longer term daily chart, then moving to an hourly chart, and then finally to a 15 minute chart.
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Introduction to Learning to Trade Stocks, Forex, Futures
www.informedtrades.com Brendan's Beginner Trading Series Introduction. This series will consist of different trading videos for newer traders and provide them with a map of how to start out their trading career. Use this course with a free practice trading account: is.gd
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33. How to Trade the Inverted Hammer/Shooting Star Patterns
www.informedtrades.com A lesson on how to trade the Inverted Hammer and Shooting Star Candlestick Chart Patterns for active traders and investors using technical analysis in the stock, futures, and forex markets. In our last lesson we learned about the Morning and Evening Star Candlestick Patterns. In today's lesson we are going to wrap up our series on candlestick patterns with a look at the Inverted Hammer and the Shooting Star candlestick patterns. The Inverted Hammer As its name implies, the inverted Hammer looks like an upside down version of the Hammer pattern which we learned about several lessons ago. Like the Hammer Pattern, the Inverted Hammer is comprised of one candle and when found in a downtrend is considered a potential reversal pattern. The pattern is made up of a candle with a small lower body and a long upper wick which is at least two times as large as the short lower body. The body of the candle should be at the low end of the trading range and there should be little or no lower wick in the candle. What the pattern is basically telling us is that although sellers ended up driving price down to close near to where it opened, buyers had significant control of the market at some point during the period which formed the long upper wick. This buying pressure during the downtrend calls the trend into question which is why the candle is considered a potential reversal pattern. Like the other one candle patterns we have learned about however, most traders will <b>...</b>
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50. How to Set Trade Position Size for Maximum Profits
www.informedtrades.com A leIn yesterday's lesson we talked about the martingale and anti martingale methods of trading which are the two categories which position sizing methodologies fall into. In today's lesson we are going to talk about one of the most basic anti martingale strategies, which is discussed in Dr. Van K. Tharp's book Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom, the Percent Risk Model. The first step in determining your position size using this method is to decide how much you are going to risk on each trade in terms of a percentage of your trading capital. As we have discussed in our previous lessons on setting stop losses, studies have proven that over the long term traders who risk more than 2% of their capital on any one trade normally are not successful over the long term. Another factor to consider here when setting this percentage are things such as the win rate (how many winning trades) your system is expected to have versus the number of losing trades as well as other components which we will discuss in future lessons. Once this loss in percentage terms has been determined, setting your stop then becomes a function of knowing how large a position can be traded while still being below your maximum risk level. As an example lets say you have $100000 in trading capital and you have determined from analyzing your strategy that 2% or $2000 (2%*$100000) of your trading capital is an appropriate amount to risk per trade. When analyzing the Crude Oil Futures <b>...</b>
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77. The 20 Components of a Successful Trading Plan
www.informedtrades.com A lesson covering the 20 basic components of a trading business plan and how active traders of the stock, futures, and forex markets should think of their trading like a business.
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22.How to Trade the Relative Strength Index (RSI) Like a Pro
www.informedtrades.com A lesson on how to trade the RSI for traders and investors using technical analysis in the stock market, futures market and forex market. In our last lesson we looked at 3 different ways that the MACD indicator can be traded. In today's lesson we are going to look at a class of indicators which are known as Oscillators with a look at how to trade one of the more popular Oscillators the Relative Strength Index (RSI). An oscillator is a leading technical indicator which fluctuates above and below a center line and normally has upper and lower bands which indicate overbought and oversold conditions in the market (an exception to this would be the MACD which is an Oscillator as well). One of the most popular Oscillators outside of the MACD which we have already gone over is the Relative Strength Index (RSI) which is where we will start our discussion. The RSI is best described as an indicator which represents the momentum in a particular financial instrument as well as when it is reaching extreme levels to the upside (referred to as overbought) or downside (referred to as oversold) and is therefore due for a reversal. The indicator accomplishes this through a formula which compares the size of recent gains for a particular financial instrument to the size of recent losses, the results of which are plotted as a line which fluctuates between 0 and 100. Bands are then placed at 70 which is considered an extreme level to the upside, and 30 which is <b>...</b>
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180. An Introduction to Futures Trading
www.informedtrades.com The first lesson in my new course on trading the futures markets for daytraders and investors in the worlds commodities and financial futures markets.
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25. How to Trade Bollinger Bands - Stocks, Futures, Forex
www.informedtrades.com A Lesson on Bollinger Bands for active traders and investors using technical analysis in the forex, futures, and stock markets. The link that I refer to on Standard Deviation is here: en.wikipedia.org The link that I refer to with more resources on Bollinger Bands is here: www.informedtrades.com In our last lesson we learned about the Stochastic Oscillator and how traders use this in their trading. In today's lesson we are going to learn about an indicator which helps traders gauge the volatility and how current prices compare to past prices. Bollinger Bands are comprised of three bands which are referred to as the upper band, the lower band, and the center band. The middle band is a simple moving average which is normally set at 20 periods, and the upper band and lower band represent chart points that are two standard deviations away from that moving average. Example of Bollinger Bands: Bollinger bands are designed to give traders a feel for what the volatility is in the market and how high or low prices are relative to the recent past. The basic premise of Bollinger bands is that price should normally fall within two standard deviations (represented by the upper and lower band) of the mean which is the center line moving average. If you are unfamiliar with what a standard deviation is you can read about it here en.wikipedia.org As this is the case trend reversals often occur near the upper and lower bands. As the center line is a moving average <b>...</b>
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78. An Overview of the Forex Market
www.informedtrades.com The first lesson in our new free video forex trading course which introduces the main aspects that differentiate the forex market from the equities and the futures markets.
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150. How to Read Stock Quotes
www.informedtrades.com The next lesson in our course on how to trade the stock market which covers how to pull up and read quotes on the ThinkorSwim platform.
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38. Profit Expectations: What Millionaire Traders Know
www.informedtrades.com A lesson on how most traders have unrealistic profit expectations which cause them to lose all their money and what realistic profit expectations are when trading the stock, futures or forex markets. The first step in understanding and building a solid money management plan, the key component in successful trading, is setting realistic profit expectations. All too often I see people open trading accounts with balances of $10000 or under expecting to make enough money to support themselves from their trading profits within a short period of time. After seeing all of the hype that is out there surrounding most trading education, trading signal services, etc it is no wonder that people think this is a reasonable goal, but that does not make it a realistic one. As most any truly successful trader will tell you, the stock market has averaged somewhere in the neighborhood of 10% a year over the last 100 years. What this basically means is that if you would have invested in the 30 stocks that make up the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the index which is designed to represent the overall market, you would have earned about 10% on your money on average over the last 100 years. With this in mind, what most any truly successful trader will also tell you, is that if you can consistently double that return, on average, over the long term, then you will be considered among the best traders out there.
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66. Trading the News - Economic Numbers - ISM Manufacturing
www.informedtrades.com The Institute for Supply Management's (ISM) Manufacturing Index. A lesson on what this indicator is and what it tells us about the manufacturing sector of the economy as well as its status as a leading indicator of overall economic conditions.
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142. An Introduction to Stock Trading
www.informedtrades.com The first video in the InformedTrades course on stocks takes a look at what stocks are and what their purpose is in an economy.
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SHORT SELLING
SHORT SELLING This was a practice vid I made before starting the course. I will probably re-do it when I create the section it will go in, but I thought I would post what I have so far.Check out the entire free forex course (in process): www.www.informedtrades.com The Free Forex Academy is a partner of InformedTrades.com, a community of traders dedicated to learning. At the Free Forex Academy, we are in the beginning stages of creating an entire comprehensive series of courses on forex trading. This section is on economic reports, and the information in it applies to all markets. Learn Forex for free! Take the entirely free course at the link above or on youtube. Practice live forex trading with real time charts and live price feeds for free while you learn. Get a totally free virtual trading account here- clk.atdmt.com Music: Danse Macabre - Low Strings Finale (Theme) Kevin MacLeod incompetech.com Hour Glass- Deejay Domos
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73. The Advantages and Disadvantages of Swing Trading
www.informedtrades.com An overview of swing trading's advantages and disadvantages for active traders and investors in the stock, futures, and forex markets.
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71.How to Interpret the Index of Leading Economic Indicators
www.informedtrades.com A lesson on the Conference Board's Index of leading economic indicators for active traders and investors in the stock, futures, and forex markets. This lesson on InformedTrades.com www.informedtrades.com Latest Releasewww.conference-board.org
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163. How to Trade Trends in Any Market
www.informedtrades.com The next lesson in my series covering what I learned about trend trading from INOTV's video trading seminars.
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