Market Masters: Poker-Trading Parallels, Positive Expectation, and Moving Beyond Certainty
by Mercenary Trader    Warren Buffett once said: “I am a better investor because I am a businessman, and a better businessman because...
Options Strategies For A Broken Stock Trade
Sometimes bad things happen to good stocks. And when this happens, good stock trades can quickly become broken stock trades. Just like a rising...
Bonds 101: Understanding the Price-Yield-Value Relationship
The incessant noise around whether to taper or not to taper got me thinking that it may be a good idea to cover off...
Basket Trading For Individual Investors
In this age of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), the idea of basket trading seems to be a foreign concept. After all, ETFs afford the...
Industrials & the Abandoned Baby Candlestick Pattern
Ever seen an Abandoned Baby before?
The Bearish Abandoned Baby candlestick pattern is a relatively rare multi-candle construction, particularly on the daily chart of a highly...
Market Masters: Using Relative Strength During Market Corrections
During a market correction I focus almost exclusively on finding and studying the price action of individual stocks that are demonstrating relative strength versus...
Market Masters: Why Investors Should Keep A Trading Log
What I wish to discuss is a vital tool that I always require of any trader I mentor (and I have mentored many over...
Market Masters: A Top Down Approach to ETF Trading
I'm honored to be invited by Andy to join the ranks of Market Masters, and know full well the high caliber of other contributors...
Market Masters: Using Market Breadth for Portfolio Positioning
By Derek Hernquist   The Dow Jones Industrials are up 1% and you make an average of 2% each across your 10 longs. A week...
Market Masters: The Crude Realities of Trading Through a Losing Streak
By Jon Boorman    We all know the old maxim of running winners and cutting losers. It's been cited numerous times in many of the...
