The futures market is exciting because of its good liquidity, and unlike equity day trading, there is no reasonable entry barrier, as you can start with as low as $500. But what exactly are futures? And can you find profitable futures trading strategies? Futures are derivative financial contracts that obligate a trader to buy or…
Many traders are pair trading ETFs. Pairs trading is one method of making your strategy less exposed to market fluctuations. Most traders trade stocks, but you can, of course, also trade ETFs. If you are trading ETFs you indirectly have a wide diversification, albeit to different segments of the stock market. In this article, we…
This article looks at how likely you are to go broke as retired or FIRE. Low interest rates make many pensioners and those who retire early (FIRE) allocate more and more capital to risky stocks. Many tend to forget that a bear market can last for a decade – even longer. What happens to the…
With a GDP of about 2.8 trillion dollars, France is the world’s fifth-largest economy and the second-largest economy in Europe, after Germany. It is home to the headquarters of the biggest stock exchange in Europe, so when it comes to financial trading, France is a popular clime for day trading and swing trading. Want to know…
For most technical traders, the use of technical indicator strategy is a reliable way to trade the financial markets. Combined with the right risk management tools, it could help a trader gain more insight into price trends and forecast how the price might move in the future. Want to know about technical indicator strategy? A…
If you are a price action trader, chart patterns, such as the symmetrical triangle, could be one of the best tricks in your toolbox. The pattern forms in all timeframes and can be used for any style of trading. However, to trade this pattern successfully, you need a symmetrical triangle trading strategy. What is it?…
The higher highs and higher lows pattern signals an uptrend. Is this likely to continue or reverse? In almost all markets, the higher high and higher low pattern signals weak future short-term gains. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work as a short strategy. The higher highs and higher lows pattern The pattern is pretty self-explanatory, but let’s…
Most investors and traders are aware of the differences between dollar-cost averaging vs lump sum investing. But what role do luck and randomness play in determining the best strategy – dollar-cost averaging or lump sum investing? In this article, we dig a bit deeper and turn the returns over the last twenty years upside down…
Market breadth indicators provide different information about the stock market in a way that other market indicators do not. But what is the market breadth? Market breadth indicates the total number of stocks that are rising in price relative to the number of stocks that are falling in price on a given stock exchange. The…
The Nasdaq-100 index is one of the most followed stock indexes around the globe. But what exactly is it? The Nasdaq-100 is a stock index that tracks 100 of the largest domestic and international non-financial companies listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange based on market capitalization and other factors. It is one of the world’s…
