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Mar 26, 20234 min read
A Process Oriented Strategy on Position Sizing
One of the most frequently asked question in stock trading is 'how much money should I place in a trade?'. The quick answer to this is...
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Jan 14, 20234 min read
Achieving the state of FLOW in Stock Trading
One of the core principles of eastern philosophies is that we need to be at peace with the truth that the world will never move, act, or...
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Sep 25, 20224 min read
Process Oriented Trading
When making decisions in the market, clarity is one of the strongest trump cards of a skilled trader. This can only be achieved through a...
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Jul 31, 20224 min read
How to Recognize and Trade Momentum Setups
At the tail end of a bearish global and local market, fresh economic catalysts start to emerge. During this transition period, company...
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Jun 11, 20224 min read
Becoming a Lifelong Student of the Market
Every endeavor that requires skill must be practiced consistently to achieve mastery. The art of stock trading is no different. The more...
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May 28, 20224 min read
Choosing the Right Stock for You
Investing your hard earned money in the market must always be a well planned process. Since real money is on the line, any mistake or...
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May 7, 20225 min read
How does the PSEI perform during an Election Year?
One of the best ways to gauge future market movements is to revisit historical price action patterns and previous underlying economic...
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Apr 10, 20224 min read
Trade Like a Market Sniper
In the battlefield, a sniper foregoes rapid firing volleys for a single well timed shot. What determines the success of the sniper lies...
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Mar 13, 20224 min read
Understanding the Role Reversal Pattern
Clarity is the boon of all successful stock traders. When navigating the volatile waters of stock trading, experienced traders will often...
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Jan 23, 20225 min read
A Basic Guide to Trade Signals
Analyzing and interpreting stock charts may look very daunting at the onset. Obscure lines, various timeframes, candles moving up and...
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Dec 19, 20213 min read
How to Improve the Quality of Your Trades
Stock trading is a marathon, not a race. Success in the market is measured by consistent medium to long term profitability. Big quick...
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Nov 21, 20214 min read
A Basic Guide to Chart Patterns
One of the major assumptions of Technical Analysis is that history repeats itself. When looking at price charts, this is illustrated as...
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Oct 10, 20214 min read
Validating Chart Patterns through Volume
Active stock traders who constantly monitor the market are always looking at price charts to spot patterns and signals. However, like all...
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Sep 26, 20214 min read
Timeless Trading Principles
Achieving consistent profitability in trading is a combination of thorough market analysis, disciplined execution, resilient psychology...
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Aug 29, 20214 min read
The Basics of Swing Trading
Swing trading is often referred to as the "Swiss Army knife" of trading strategies due to its simplicity and versatility across various...
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Aug 15, 20216 min read
How to Spot a High Conviction Trade
Stock trading is largely an endeavor of navigating market probabilities. Stock prices constantly move up and down based on prevailing...
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Aug 1, 20214 min read
How to Use the Relative Strength Index (RSI)
One of the most widely used technical indicators in stock trading is the Relative Strength Index or RSI. The RSI is used to gauge price...
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Jun 27, 20215 min read
The Importance of a Trade Strategy
Every market can either make you a fortune or ruin you. Every stock has its corresponding risk and reward. Every trader can be a success...
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May 30, 20213 min read
Understanding the Market Cycle
One of the defining traits of the stock market is that it repeats the same price action patterns over time. The ebb and flow of price is...
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May 16, 20213 min read
What Does it Take to Become a Profitable Trader?
The concept of stock trading is simple. You buy a stock at a discounted price and sell it at a higher price for profit. Simple, but it is...
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Apr 25, 20214 min read
Understanding the Parabolic Curve
Ask any momentum trader out there and they will tell you that the king of all bull patterns is undoubtedly the Parabolic Curve. This has...
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Mar 21, 20216 min read
Choosing the Appropriate Trade Play
The discipline of Technical Analysis hosts a multitude of trade plays for varying market conditions. Whether it is a bull, bear or a...
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Mar 7, 20214 min read
Spotting Support and Resistance Confluences
When analyzing the market, traders usually look for specific signals to determine the best point of entry and exit. Ideally, the more...
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Feb 13, 20213 min read
Using Divergences as Buy and Sell Signals
In the stock market, anything can happen in the short term time frame. A trader know this fully well. So, in order to adapt to the...
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Jan 24, 20214 min read
Understanding the Volatility Contraction Pattern
One of the most effective skills in the arsenal of a profitable trader is pattern recognition. As the dynamics of supply and demand shape...
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Jan 9, 20213 min read
What are Cyclical Stocks?
Unlike its global peers, most of the stocks in the PSE are cyclical in nature. When we say cyclical stocks, it generally refers to...
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Dec 6, 20203 min read
Understanding Market Pullbacks
What is a Pullback? A pullback is a brief retracement of a stock from a recent spike or rally. If the demand is strong, the pull back is...
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Nov 15, 20203 min read
Understanding Price Action
When you observe how seasoned traders approach the market, you'll come to realize that they all give utmost importance in monitoring and...
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Oct 18, 20206 min read
Trade Psychology: Overcoming the Fog of Emotion
If you have been trading for some time now, you may have noticed that it takes more than just research and analysis to win consistently...
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Sep 27, 20203 min read
Building a Trade Plan
Every seasoned trader knows that in a short term timeframe, anything can happen. With the amount of risks involved, there is simply no...
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Aug 31, 20204 min read
How to Trade the Bounce
During weak market conditions, the number of potential plays drastically decrease. Due to low volume in buying, prices tend to...
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Aug 16, 20204 min read
Price: The Leading Indicator
Nowadays, anyone attempting to get into technical trading will get bombarded by a flurry of chart indicators and overlays. As newbies, it...
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Aug 5, 20204 min read
How to Recover from Big Trade Losses
You know how it goes. You spot a potential short term trade. The technicals look good. There is a strong growth story behind the company....
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Aug 2, 20203 min read
Read This Before You Start Stock Trading
You may have heard of the statistical data stating that 85% - 90% of most traders lose their money in the stock market. Honestly, ask any...
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Jul 19, 20202 min read
How to Scan for Potential Stock Plays
The stock market holds a sea of opportunities. However, landing on one is not always an easy task. To the trained eye, navigating the...
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Jul 5, 20204 min read
Leveraging on Your Investment Horizon
Your Investment Horizon is a major factor in the formulation of any investment decisions. When we say Investment Horizon, this refers to...
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Jun 28, 20205 min read
Fine-tune Your Trade Strategy: Basics of Risk Management
Consistent profitability in stock trading is a matter of managing risks through disciplined execution of a well constructed trade plan....
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Jun 13, 20205 min read
Analyzing Support and Resistance
Success in stock trading is heavily determined by how well you navigate the daily fluctuations in supply and demand. Volume and Price,...
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Jun 8, 20204 min read
How to Ride a Raging Bull: Momentum Trading Tips
In stock trading, the type of trade strategy employed depends heavily on the overall market trend. Trade setups for bull markets are...
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May 31, 20205 min read
Top 10 Books to Help Improve Your Trading Performance
All that mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying in matchless preservation in the pages of books. They are the chosen...
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May 25, 20204 min read
Should You Invest in an IPO?
An Initial Public Offering or IPO marks the debut of a company in the stock market. It has now made the transition from private ownership...
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May 17, 20202 min read
Letting the Market Lead the Way
The common goal of active traders is to generate the highest profit in the shortest amount of time. Unlike the smooth sailing route of...
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May 10, 20203 min read
Fine-tune Your Trade Strategy: Stock Exits Edition
Pressing the "sell" button is one of the hardest things to do as a trader. There is no one-size-fits-all approach when it comes to profit...
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May 7, 20203 min read
Volume Analysis: Navigating the Waves of the Market
What makes a stock price rise and fall? The quick answer to that question is Buying and Selling Volume. Volume in the context of trading...
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Apr 30, 20202 min read
What Kind of Trader are You?
As the barrier of entry for stock trading is lowered, you'll see a host of interesting traders entering the trade and investment scene....
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Apr 19, 20203 min read
Fine-tune Your Trade Strategy: Stock Entries Edition
There is a fine line between proper market analysis and timely trade execution. Most of the time, traders who analyze the market too much...
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Mar 31, 20203 min read
Grow With The Flow
How pleasant or awful your life is depends entirely on how you respond to it. Take for example the weather. A rainy day may come as an...
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Mar 29, 20203 min read
Spotting Opportunities During a Market Crash
Market crashes are part of the natural cyclical movement of the economy. At some point, certain catalysts will trigger major panic...
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Mar 11, 20204 min read
How to Properly Select Stock Plays
One of the major hurdles that traders face is the proper selection of stocks to trade. People with no trade plan would rely on "gurus" or...
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Feb 9, 20203 min read
Cashing In on the Crash
Market crashes are scary. At some point in the cycle of the global economy, market conditions will have one or several catalysts to...
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