This website is all about trading, but what type of trading? Day trading, swing trading, position trading? We asked traders: which trading style do you prefer? Related reading: We have conducted plenty of reader polls, and you find them all in our article about trading statistics, truths, realities, and facts. Which trading style do you…
Did you know that closed-end funds (CEFs), a category of investment instrument, have existed for more than a century? Because of its long history, closed-end funds are a popular investing vehicle. But did you know that you can also make a closed-end fund trading strategy? A closed-end fund trading strategy aims to buy low and…
The NR7 trading strategy is a narrow-range strategy that is both well-known and popular. If you do a search on the internet, you get multiple hits on the strategy. To our knowledge, the strategy was first developed by Tony Crabel as long back as 1990. The NR7 is a volatility strategy but enters on a…
One of the most ideal investment vehicles for beginner investors, ETFs have grown in popularity since they emerged on the financial markets. But what is an ETF, and how is it traded? An exchange-traded fund (ETF) is a basket of securities that is traded as a single instrument, which you can buy or sell through…
Stocks can be classified into four factors: value, size, investment, and quality. It is well-known that value stocks perform well, and small caps tend to outperform large caps. However, what about the quality factor trading strategy? The quality factor can be described as investing in stocks of safe, profitable, growing, and well-managed companies. This sounds…
Stocks can be classified into many types: value vs. growth, profitability vs. investment, developed vs. developing countries, and, of course, large vs. small caps. Today, we present a large cap vs small cap rotation trading strategy. The large-cap vs. small-cap rotation strategy aims to shift between these two groups to capitalize on the one that…
If you want to know how the cost of living is changing, the CPI is one tool to check. Government agencies, businesses, investors, and traders use it to gauge inflation — the change in the prices of goods and services. Let’s take a look at CPI trading strategy. The CPI (Consumer Price Index) is a…
The coming week is the OPEX week of October. We are entering a historically strong seasonal tendency in the stock market (from OCT to APR), and it might be interesting to find out how stocks have performed this particular week in October. Trading Rules [am4show have=’p2;p3;p58;p59;p130;p138;’ user_error=’Premium Post Access’ guest_error=’Premium Posts’] Let’s backtest by being…
One of the most frequently traded futures contracts, the E-mini S&P 500 futures tracks the popular S&P 500 index, which is an index of the 500 biggest stocks in the US stock market. Just as the S&P 500 index is considered the benchmark of the US equity market, the E-mini S&P 500 futures strategy is…
Can we make a profitable Bollinger Bands trading strategy? The Bollinger Bands are renamed after its inventor, John Bollinger. The indicator was invented in 1980 and made John Bollinger a pretty famous trader. The bands are included in all software platforms and frequently mentioned in the financial media. What is all the fuzz about? Are…
