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A collection of 8 posts

Fear & Loathing in the Land of All-Time Highs

What to Do? Many traders are asking the same thing as the entire US market reaches all-time highs. Should we ride the trend until the music stops, risking becoming long-term (underwater) investors in positions we're not entirely committed to? Riding the wall of worry, I question my judgment.

Trading Strategy

Outsmarting Institutions by Mastering the the "Double Liquidity Headfake"

The "Double Liquidity Headfake" is a common trap used by smart money to deceive buyers and sellers in a single progammed play. The event occurs when the market breaks a swing high or low and then reverses in the opposite direction, trapping traders on both sides. By identifying

Trading Psychology: Timing the Bounce

To time stock market bounces, it is important to understand investor psychology and the impact to supply and demand. Terrible news freaks out the market and shakes out positions - ultimately dropping price. No surprise. Buying the resulting dip while ignoring the collective market's sentiment and fear can

Market Reality Check (December, 2021)

The market has largely been moving in one direction for many years now. This has distorted our perceptions and potentially caught ourselves out of position against possible negative outcomes. Personally, I chase momentum until it stops (ideally). This statement is complicated in of itself, but the point is I rather

Protecting Profits

My Zen Trading Setup

MOMO Traders - At any given time, I have 50 to 75 stocks from which I am monitoring either to scalp, swing, add, or close positions. This doesn't include the new discoveries I uncover with MOMO that are either rips in MOMO Stream or are "lying in

Common Mental Trading Mistakes

Always worth reviewing! Over the next couple of months we will dive deeper into each of these common mental trading mistakes. While building MOMO we constantly evaluate if we are providing information in a way which lets traders identify movement easily without bias and without form fitting the movements. New

Trade for Your Temperament

The concept of trading is simple, but why is it so hard? Are we all geniuses battling each other or are we really fighting ourselves by making trades not ideally suited to our temperament? Trades that are placed outside your ideal time horizon and risk appetite are unsuspecting profit killers

The Psychology Behind MOMO: Studies, Lines, and Human Interpretation

Whether you admit it or not, every day your brain deceives itself by blurring reality and clouding decision making. The stock market is the ultimate battlefield where emotions, intelligence, and data fight one another every second the market is open and without a certain degree of clarity and confidence, we