A Lesson in Drawing and Using Trendlines
When I began my career as an analyst, I was lucky enough to have some time with a few old pros. One in particular that I will always remember told me that a kid with a ruler could make a million dollars in the markets. He was talking about trendlines….
Weekly Trading Lesson: Don’t Change Time Frames To Stay In A Losing Trade
Too many times I hear about new traders opening a trade using the 5-minute chart (not my favorite approach) and when the market moves against them, they move to the 15-minute chart to justify staying in a little longer, hoping that the market will turn around. Then if the market…
Weekly Trading Lesson: Bollinger Bands
One of the more popular technical indicators in use today is Bollinger Bands. Created by John Bollinger in the early 1980s, this tool is essentially a Moving Average with a volatility filter. Volatility can be of great value in an indicator for those times when the market is swinging wildly…
Trading the Dollar With USDX
The US dollar index (USDX) is an important analytical tool for traders in just about any market. The USDX is actually a futures contract which means that if you have a futures trading account you could trade this instrument like corn, oil, gold or currency futures contracts. However rather than…