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In this episode of the TradingTips.com video newsletter, we won’t be looking at a pattern formation, a technical statistic, or a chart overlay. Instead, we’ll be looking at an actual stock pick made for the week of April 18, 2011. In this episode, you’ll learn: – The identity of the stock in question, along with [...]

The topic of this week’s TradingTips.com video newsletter is Price Channels. These technical overlays work similarly to Stochastics, but are much simpler and straightforward… And in this case, simpler is most definitely better. The basic idea behind Price Channels is to look at the periodic highs and lows of a stock, and see where the [...]

Volatility. It’s important. And accordingly, there are several technical indicators that are designed to measure it. However, many of these tools are flawed. How? Because they miss what J. Welles Wilder called “Hidden Volatility.” What is “Hidden Volatility?” The best way to explain it is with an example. Let’s say a stock closes at $50 [...]

Moving Average Envelopes are simple but effective indicators — it’s surprising they aren’t more widely understood and used. This, however, can be used to your advantage. By being one of the comparatively few traders who knows how to use Moving Average Envelopes, you’ll have a secret weapon at your disposal! This episode of the TradingTips.com [...]

Ichimoku Kinko Hyo: The name sounds intimidating to those unfamiliar with Japanese, and a quick glance at the formula makes this indicator seem far more complex than it is. In reality, though, the Ichimoku Cloud is a simple, straight-forward, and very revealing technical indicator. In fact, it might be the most single versatile and effective [...]

Do you know Michelle Williams, the actress? She was on Dawson’s Creek, and in the movies Halloween H20 and Brokeback Mountain — the blonde girl. Well, did you know that she once won the World Cup Championship of Futures Trading using the statistical tool her dad created, Williams %R? She did! I can’t promise you [...]

Volatility is every stock trader’s best friend. As long as stocks are moving in one direction or another — or both! — there is the potential to profit. It’s when stocks are standing still that traders get killed. There are ways to make money in sideways markets — such as writing options contracts — but [...]

There are a lot of technical indicators that say the same things, but in different ways. Why is it important to master them all? Because sometimes one indicator will contradict another, and your odds of trading success are greatly increased when you have several indicators all saying the same thing. However, some indicators are intended [...]

Will you do me a small favor? You can help me and the people in Haiti a lot if you will. As you may know, on Tuesday, January 12, 2010, Haiti was hit by a devastating earthquake. An estimated 70,000 people minimum lost their lives during this disaster. Millions of people are now homeless. Many [...]

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