Chart Learning

Expert traders are fast to let you know that combining two indicators will inevitably give you better and more reliable signals on when to enter or exit an open position. Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) is a trend-following momentum indicator that shows the relationship in the movement of the price of a security. It combines two indicators ; a 12-day exponential moving average for the short-term changes and a 26-day exponential moving average for the long-term changes. The MACD was invented by Gerald Appel in the 1970s, where his intention was to create an indicator that will reveal, direction, momentum, strength, and length of a stock's trend. This makes it unique compared to other indicators, as it's really an "all in one" indicator.  The MACD Formula The calculation of MACD is done by taking the 26- period exponential moving average (EMA) and then minus 12-period EMA. This gives a 9 day EMA of the MACD referred to as the signal line.  When the 12-

The following is a guide I compiled to help prevent people from being conned by frauds when dealing with stock trading. Remember this applies to any medium (e-mail, websites, forums, TV, discord rooms, Twitter (X) and so on). Stock trading and Social Media are a match made in heaven. Stock traders heavily rely on social media for news and trading ideas. However, there is one alarming trend: a lot of con artists are able to profit from their followers by selling misleading subscription services to them or having them follow their pump-and-dump schemes. Recently, the ATLAS trading group got indicted for stealing 125 million from inexperienced naive traders via Twitter/X and Discord, luckily they will be spending a nice chunk of their life in jail. The finance world is the most unethical/dishonest place in the world (remember the economic collapse of 2008). Some of the dishonesty that accompanies subscription services is due to competition. Each service has to do a "bit more"

Trading Options is a losing game. You will not get rich off trading options period. When I say options is a losing game I'm speaking from several different angles and a decade of experience. I'm not some bitter loser trader ( I've been a market-beating trader since 2012 ). This article is written from my experience, as I naively thought it could be possible to trade options profitably, almost going broke several times. The Trading Option Service Scam I was that guy who thought trading options were the answer to making my dreams come true. Start with a small account, and win big and fast. I was inspired by all the traders on social media bragging about making killing trading options. Conveniently enough, those who bragged were also selling very expensive subscription services. I joined a ton of them. My experience with these services was me hemorrhaging money as the services would erratically trade options. As they claimed victory I and others in the services were never able

Note:  I am a winning trader who has beaten the S&P 500 index since 2013, so do not take the advice below as if I am some jaded losing trader, because I am not. There is some really good advice in the article I recommend some of you take it. I currently have a 96% win rate since 2016. More about my trading system can be found here . The Market is a very difficult place to make money. If you think you are a genius or you know what you are doing, you will be in for a world of hurt. If you don't quit while you are on top, you eventually will be wiped out. If you are trading options, making a ton, and think you will continue in the long term, you are dead wrong. Those who trade options are most at risk . To compound the issue, there are no accurate risk management models. This is proven by how the Quants could not predict or mitigate the 2007 Market crash, and as well as several hedge funds getting squeezed out of billions due to their arrogant Gamestop ($GME) and $AMC shorts.

Traders often blame their losses in trading due to "lack of discipline" and mental breakdowns. The truth is this isn't the actual problem causing you to lose money trading. There are many out there willing to sell their services to help you improve your trading psychology/discipline, these range from books, seminars, and even expensive weekly one-on-one video call sessions. The truth is these products will never help you long-term and are flat-out a waste of money . Many people who sell these products are exploiting inexperienced/naive traders out there. The real underlying issue of why traders keep losing is because they lack a clear-cut profitable edge. An  edge is defined as a set of consistent decisions (including a trading algorithm) used to buy and sell stocks. Following a profitable system will keep you "disciplined" because it guides all your decisions for you and removes emotions. The list below is a series of steps on how I use my profitable edge/s