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What I Learned About Earnings Reports
How to manage the risk of holding stocks through earnings reports when prices can become extremely volatile.
Risk Management
A Beginner's Guide to the VIX: The Market's Fear Gauge
How to predict market volatility using the VIX.
Market Conditions
A Beginner’s Guide to Support and Resistance Lines
How to use support and resistance levels to time your trades.
Technical Analysis
Positive vs. Negative Gamma: Two Very Different Market Conditions
How to understand two extremely different market conditions that lead to stable or volatile movement in stock prices.
Market Conditions
Buy Signals Part 3 - Break Above the 50-Day Moving Average
What the 50-day moving average can tell you about the momentum of stock.
Technical Analysis
Knowing When to Sell: Using the 50-Day and 150-Day Lines to Protect Profits and Limit Losses
How to use moving averages as risk management tools.
Risk Management
What Are Moving Averages and How Are They Useful?
Three ways that a moving average can be a valuable tool for traders and investors.
Technical Analysis
Beyond the Hype: What SpaceX Can Teach Us About the Risks of Buying an IPO
Why everyday investors lost money on the SpaceX IPO.
Risk Management
Position Sizing: Another Powerful Risk Management Tool
Why knowing how much to buy and how much you are willing to lose may be one of the most important skills for surviving in the stock market.
Risk Management
Stop-Loss Orders: Your #1 Risk Management Tool
Manage Risk with Strategy Not Emotion
Risk Management
Trading vs. Investing
The different mindsets behind short-term trading and long-term investing.
Market Mindset & Psychology
Never Trust The First Move
You should probably not buy stocks during the first three hours of the day - unless you are a seasoned day trader.
Money Lost & Lessons Learned
Understanding the RSI
How to use RSI to determine if a stock is overbought or oversold.
Technical Analysis
The Day Silver Stocks Lost Their Shine
An expensive lesson about risk management.
Money Lost & Lessons Learned
Buy Signals Part 2 - The Breakout
What the chart looks like when a stock price is about to climb.
Technical Analysis
Buy Signals Part 1 - High Volume
How to use green volume bars growing taller as a buy signal.
Technical Analysis
Why Invest in Boring Index Funds? Part 2
Returns on SPY and QQQ.
Index Funds
Why Invest in Boring Index Funds? Part 1
Reasons that index funds benefit from upward drift.
Index Funds
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