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10 EASY STEPS TO A MORE PRODUCTIVE TRADING DAY There’s always room for improvement no matter you do, especially when it comes to trading. You may think you already know it all, but accept the fact that you don't. Nobody does. Here’s 8 ways to be a better trader. 3 Forces Behind Overtrading and How to Control Them Overtrading is dangerous. It increases the exposure of your account to downturns, leaves you open to trades you haven’t thought through, and greatly increases the cost of commissions. Controlling your overtrading can be difficult as many traders become overzealous as a result of a very poor investment. Rather than “getting it back next time,” the “next time” becomes right now. Traders start to throw money at any trade for a variety of reasons just to get back what they just lost. 4 Powerful Pivot Point Strategies Pivot points used to be a favorite on Wall Street, but like other technical indicators, pivot points are time consuming to calculate. Thanks to computers and plenty of web resources, it is now possible to calculate pivot points in seconds. Professional traders have long used pivot points as a way to define support and resistance lines before the market even opens. 4 Single Stop Loss Approaches for Managing Trading Risk Meeting your trading goals is often as easy as managing your trading risk. The use of different stop loss strategies will help maximize your returns while limiting downside, especially in wild markets. Using stop losses effectively will improve your trading, increase returns with proven strategies, and fully capitalize on technical analysis patterns. 4 Steps Necessary for Trading Preparation There are four very crucial steps for determining a trade and making the right decision. Profitable traders are able to spot opportunity, but not act until it knocks. Waiting for opportunity to knock is the sole difference between the average Joe and professional traders. True insider methods aren’t methods at all – just a strict adherence to the day trading rules. 4 Types of Gaps and How to Trade Them Trading gaps is extremely profitable, especially for traders with strategies for gapping up and strategies for gapping down. Some traders only take one side of each gap, but learning to trade the gaps up and down proves to be doubly profitable. It’s hard to trade the gaps intraday, on a short term chart, but can be done. For the swing trader, there is much more money to be made in gaps. 5 GUIDELINES FOR EVALUATING YOUR TRADING AS A BUSINESS Unfortunately, many traders fail to see themselves as business owners when it comes to trading. Read about 5 guidelines that will help you understand the importance of managing trading as a business. 5 Important Aspects of a Trendline These 5 insights into reading and using trendlines to your advantage are sure to help you further fine tune your trading efforts. Get comfortable with trendlines because doing so may actually lead you to more consistent profits. 5 Reasons To Step Away From A Trade Successful traders know when to intelligently and rationally walk away from a trade. It’s not always easy to walk away from a trade, but this article covers 5 reasons why and when you should do it. 5 Steps To Understanding Volume And Liquidity Understanding that volume and liquidity will boost trading profits puts you one step closer to financial freedom. The active, professional trader should know how to act in any market, liquid or illiquid. 5 Technical Analysis Stops that Every Trader Should Know It has been said many times that is not important where you enter a trade, but where you exit that really counts. This is very true in the fact that entry points can be profitable anywhere, if you get out at the right time. 5 TIPS FOR DEALING WITH THE TRADING BLUES Although rewarding in the end, day trading can be very stressful and frustrating at times. Its intensity can often get you in a “funk” that’s hard to get out of. Find out how to overcome the dreaded trading blues. 6 Skills Every Trader Should Have Going Into Trading Whether day trading, scalping, or investing, there are fundamental skills that each trader should master. Skill-building activities will help you sharpen your ability to make money and cash in on critical market movements. 6 Trading Habits To Strive For Good or bad - habits are habits. The good habits eventually become part of doing good business which ultimately results in a boost to profits. Find out if you have good habits and what to do if you don’t. 8 WAYS TO BE A BETTER TRADER There’s always room for improvement no matter you do, especially when it comes to trading. You may think you already know it all, but accept the fact that you don't. Nobody does. Here’s 8 ways to be a better trader. A Novel, New Way to Improve Your Trading Today! Group learning is a great way to learn anything. It’s often more affordable, fun, and beneficial in ways you never thought. This article discusses the advantages of shared mentors, group learning, and centralized trading depositories for traders who want to improve their trading. Adding Stock Scanning Tips to Your Trading Plan Stock scanning is a vital tool used by professional traders to find symbols that fit their criteria. There are thousands of programs and resources that scan the stock market based upon investor criteria, locating stocks that fit your trading system. Are you seeking stocks with a price between $5 and $50 with a PEG ratio of .4? A stock scanner will search through piles of data and return with hundreds of names that match the criteria. Why do all the initial searching when automated programs c Are Moving Averages Really Simple to Use? Moving averages are used by amateur and professional traders alike for very rewarding results. Finding moving averages that work for you might be a difficult task, but after finding the “perfect pair,” moving averages provide huge results with little work. Master the identification and use of moving averages and anticipate a long career in trading. Candlestick Patterns in a Bear Market As we entered into 2008 with the worst start to a trading year in history, traders still remained conflicted as to whether or not we were entering into a bear market. Candlesticks and Overall Technical Picture Candlesticks fit into the overall technical picture, but it should be known that candlestick chart patterns are just one part of a wide array of studies that fit into technical analysis. Technical analysis spans all chart analysis, and it is even applied to some fundamental analysis statistics. Cherry Picking Stocks and Stock Scanning Cherry picking may actually be a case of getting something for nothing – sort of. Find out how traders “cherry pick” and do well in the market without much effort relevant to research. All you have to do is follow the crowd, so to speak. Just make sure it’s the right crowd! CRINGE-INDUCING TRADES AND PROFITS If you’ve been trading for awhile, you’ve already experienced that sinking feeling, that cringe-inducing trade that made your stomach turn. Read this article to find out how to reduce that stomach acid and avoid that feeling in the future. Day Trading Questions Answered There is so much trading information available that it can become overwhelming or even confusing. The worst part is, so much information can sometimes make it difficult to actually find answers to your questions. Enter Trading EveryDay’s new mini-series seminars of “Day Trading Questions Answered”. There is no agenda, and the seminars are dedicated entirely to traders’ questions. The best part, it’s FREE. Day Trading “Money Making” Machine Day trading can truly be a money making machine. Many experienced day traders can make more in a few seconds than what most people make in a week. This also comes with some risk, but for the trader armed with technical analysis and proven strategies, producing profit can result in consistent income. Do You Have What It Takes to Be a Trader? Many traders consider trading an investment rather than a business. Once they realize that it should be treated as a business, they will begin to see how protecting their capital results in making money. This article discusses how the level of trading knowledge and skills is directly related to protecting your capital and making money. Don’t Give Back Profits After racking up a very healthy trading portfolio, many traders get the idea that they are infallible and every trade will come as easy as the last. Don’t be a victim of this mindset. After gaining some experience, nothing should motivate traders more than a trading plan that monitors trading structure, while helping the trader follow through only with quality trades. Enough Trading Knowledge to Make You Dangerous Knowledge is the key to trading. The only thing that separates those at the top and those at the bottom is a complete understanding of the financial markets and their day to day rhythms. Anyone can be profitable if they follow a proper strategy; it just takes patience and experience to finally win over the market. Feel the Fear of Being a Losing Trader Once you feel the fear of being a losing trader, you never want to go back there. While taking losing trades is inevitable throughout your trading career, you don’t have to be a losing trader! Find out how to implement some very easy, common sense ways to make sure you do everything you can to avoid being a losing trader. Finding Chart Patterns That Can Lead To Big Profits Some may argue that your ability to find chart patterns is a direct correlation to your ability to generate profits. Understanding basic chart patterns is integral to preserving your capital which you must do before you even generate profits. Five Things You Absolutely Need To Know To Become A Successful Day Trader About 90% of beginner day traders are wiped out within a few months. The biggest reason is that most traders just jump into the market without any experience, knowledge, or planning. HOW TO ENJOY YOUR TRADING SUCCESS This article discusses how to celebrate your trading success and make the most of your wins. Incremental steps of successful trading can build your profits to the point of quitting your 9 to 5 job – the ultimate joy for many traders. Find out what those steps are in this article. HOW TO FIND OUT IF YOUR MONEY MANAGEMENT PLAN IS WORKING Money Management is an elemental component of trading. This article asks 3 basic questions for you to find out if your Money Management plan is in good working order for you and your risk tolerance. How to Get Added Value and Confirmation Professional traders use many indicators to pick a position. The duo of forward and lagging indicators makes trading very profitable. See the different mixes for different timeframes and scenarios for successful trading. HOW TO MANAGE THE PASSION OF TRADING There’s a fine line between passion and obsession. When it comes to day trading, it might be hard to tell. Which one are you? Either way, you must balance it with the rest of your life. Find out how in this article. HOW TO STAY AWAY FROM INFORMATION OVERLOAD IN TRADING Sometimes too much information is just too much. There are efficient and productive ways to wade through the volume of available trading information. And you don’t have to do it by yourself. Find out how. IT’S ALL ABOUT THE “BENJAMINS” IN TRADING No matter how you look at it, trading is all about the money, or “Benjamins”. This article discusses how your trading style and trading plan are crucial to how you manage your Benjamins. If they’re not in sync, you could be in trouble. Learn to be a Day Trader – Not a Daily Trader There’s a huge difference between a day trader and a daily trader. It has to do with get-rich-quick schemes vs. learning how to trade. Which one are you? Learn to Follow a 5 Step Trading System Rather Than Your Emotions A trading system is the best way to maintain your composure during chaotic markets. The better your trading system, the less your emotions will be a factor in your decisions. These 5 steps are easy enough to follow. The question is, will you? Learn to Love Your Losers The only way to never have a losing trade is to never trade. This article discusses why your losing trades are just as important, if not more so, than your profitable trades. Lifestyle Of Traders Ahhh...the lifestyle of a trader! Is it really as glamorous as it sounds? How do they use their down time? Do they even have any down time? Yes, they do! Work hard and play hard is never truer than for the trader. Maximum Position-Size Strategies and Trading Consistency The maximum position-size strategies are catered to traders who desire to make a living rather than grow their capital. Once a trader has sufficient capital, the result is taking positions that are equal in size to further the odds advantage. Momentum Interpretation Trading gaps is extremely profitable, especially for traders with strategies for gapping up and strategies for gapping down. Some traders only take one side of each gap, but learning to trade the gaps up and down proves to be doubly profitable. It’s hard to trade the gaps intraday, on a short term chart, but can be done. For the swing trader, there is much more money to be made in gaps. Navigating Your Trading Platform Did you know that a day trader’s place of business is not the office or desk, but the trading platform? Anyone can navigate the office or desk, but can you navigate your trading platform just as well? Find out why navigating, and perhaps customizing, your platform can have a huge impact on your trading. One Chart is Worth a Thousand Words Perfect your chart reading skills because a chart is the trader’s guide to ultimate profitability. For each trading style, from scalping and day trading to swing trading and long-term investing, a chart is worth a thousand words. Professional traders rely on their charts for consistent profits and for guidance on what to do next. Price is Determined by the Interaction of Buyers and Sellers Profitable traders use technical analysis to judge prices because they know that price is not dictated by market events, but rather the interaction between buyers and sellers which determines price. The action of just a few traders can have a very significant impact on price, as their volume of shares can push the price through uptrends or downtrends, based solely on the exchange price for one trade. Reading Candlestick Charts Like a Professional Professional traders love candlesticks because they can be read much quicker than a bar chart, while also allowing a different kind of technical analysis known as candlestick reading. Learn how candlestick reading can enhance your trading. Scalp Trading and Razor Thin Profits There are different trading styles to suit different personalities and dispositions. Master scalp trading and, if executed properly, you can make more than a decent living on razor thin profits. Seizing Trading Opportunities It can be difficult to hold onto a winning trade and very easy to dump a loser – this is why so many day traders find it hard to make consistent profits. Find out how to balance the holding and dumping of trades and generate more consistent profits. Significance of a Trend Line Much of what we know about technical analysis and its ability to predict prices is relatively new. The study of technical analysis on the financial markets goes back to the 18th century, but what truly came out of technical analysis was discovered mostly in the computer age. Computer modeling has sped up innovation in price studying and trading more than other development Significance of Divergence Profitable traders know the significance of divergence; its significance is usually noted by the large movements that come after a true divergence in price and leading indicator. The most talked about is the RSI divergence, but there are many forms, such as MACD divergence, price volume divergence, and practically any kind of divergence between price and indicators. The Basics of a Piercing Pattern After knowing what a piercing candle is, you’ll find that they are very easy to spot on a candlestick chart. A piercing candle usually comes to rest after a downturn that is longer than five periods on the chart. Thus, on a one day candlestick chart, the trend would have to be more than 5 bars and exist at the bottom of a downtrend. The Basics of Engulfing Patterns Candlesticks, especially those indicating reversal, are the most important indicators a trader should know before entering the market. The engulfing patterns represent a complete change in price and should be used with proper risk and money management tips. The Basics of Volatility To say the stock market has been volatile lately is an understatement. But no matter what the market is doing, there are proven strategies that make money when the markets are uneasy because of the breakout potential that exists. Find out if you have the right strategies in place. The Do’s and Don’ts of Shorting the Market While often considered a dangerous position, shorting can be a very lucrative trading position if you know what you’re doing. This article contains some very basic but crucial Do’s and Don’ts for shorting in the markets. The Undisciplined Trader If you don’t have discipline with your trading, you may never become the trader you’re meant to be. The insights in this article are sure to get you on the path of disciplined trading and ultimately more profits. The Unorganized Trader If you’re an unorganized trader, don’t worry. You’re not alone. The good news is that there are many tools and techniques that can turn you into a money-making trading machine. There Are No Shortcuts To Trading EveryDay More often than not, people who take shortcuts when learning to trade realize pretty quickly that they end up having to back track to get it right – resulting in taking more time and energy than if they didn’t take the shortcut in the first place. This article discusses two (2) major components of successful trading that requires that shortcuts NOT be taken. Thinking Like a Professional Trader I’ve always heard that if you act organized, you’ll be organized; act happy, you’ll be happy, etc. These same ideas apply to trading. Think like a professional trader, and you’ll be a professional trader. Try it and see. Trading Breakouts and Breakdowns Manage your strategies in your trading plan to handle both breakouts and breakdowns. Before you do, make sure you know what the differences are between the two. Trading Illiquid Stocks Trading illiquid stocks can help improve your trading and make a trader more knowledgeable on the effects of volume. Illiquid stocks can help investors reach trading goals much faster as each movement is much larger than the movements in high volume stocks. Trading Opening Range Breakouts Continuing education may be the only thing to keep you a step ahead of the ever-evolving trading world. This article briefly examines the evolution of Opening Range Breakout trades and how it’s become more difficult to separate them from false breakouts. Trading With a Global Perspective The three Cs – currencies, commodities, and corporations – are bought and sold every second by millions of traders around the world. With this kind of global market, it is important to keep yourself in line with the rest of the world. Treating Day Trading Like a Hobby Versus a Business Day trading is nothing to fool around with unless, of course, you have money to burn. If you’re serious about trading, make sure you don’t fall in the trading “hobbyist” category because you’re chances of trading success will be minimal. Uncovering Winning Trades It’s impossible to have only winning trades, so the goal is to manage the dollar amounts of your trades (both wins and losses) even more than the number of trades taken. Traders come to realize very early on that the quality, not the quantity, of trades is what matters. Unleash the Hidden Power of Your Trading Plan Deep in your trading plan, you may be missing an element that could be eliminating huge winners. By merely tweaking a few indicators and steps to your trading plan, you may be able to produce returns you’ve never been able to achieve. Volume Interpretation Interpreting volume depends upon the kind of trader you are and what kind of returns you wish to generate. Day trading and swing trading call for a very in depth look at volume, while investing requires the bare minimum. Studying volume helps investors find the best times of the day to trade and produce consistent profits. What to Look for When the Market Hits a Bottom Bargain hunting when the market hits bottom can be a very lucrative thing to do, but only if you know what to look for and what strategies to apply to the bottomed stocks. With experience and lots of patience, traders can come out way ahead in a bottomed out market. What to Look for When the Market Hits a Top Market tops are extremely profitable for short sellers. Tops are usually much more exaggerated than bottoms and last only for a short amount of time. Learn how to take advantage of this small “window of opportunity”. What Trading Cannot and Will Not Do for You Trading is often portrayed as a glamorous career. While it does provide the opportunity for an amazing lifestyle, the reality is that many traders had to go through a lot blood, sweat, and tears to get it. What’s Inside Relative Strength Understanding RSI and how it works can be very beneficial since it is one of the most popular oscillators and even one of the most profitable indicators, if used correctly. Any trader can find a way to fit the RSI into their own trading style, as it has so many applications for forecasting stock prices. WHEN TRADERS RECEIVE BAD NEWS AND DON’T LISTEN Traders are inundated with information on a daily basis. Distinguishing good news from bad news and reacting accordingly is always a challenge. Find out why bad news can be more important than good news for your trading activities. Why Moving Averages are Popular Like it or not, the Moving Average is the indicator of choice for most, if not all, traders. Find out why. “Sitting on Your Hands” Trading Strategy Sometimes the best trade is no trade. Some traders trade just to trade, which often means emotions get the best of them. There are huge benefits for “sitting on your hands” if you have the right techniques, tools, and strategies together with the discipline to follow your plan.

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