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From The Desk Of Manny Backus Here are your updates for the week… A Stock to Lift Your Spirits When the going gets tough, the tough start drinking, eating and smoking – so said one of CNBC’s many talking heads as the stock market continued its post-election nosedive. In truth, a bear market might not [...]

Oftentimes, we’ll tell you that no one technical indicator is good enough to base a whole trade around, and that you should always cross-reference with other indicators in order to gain confirmation of a trading thesis. Well, in this TradingTips.com episode, we look at a full-blown strategy using three technical indicators covered in an earlier [...]

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 [...]

Have you ever spotted a hot stock in a bullish trend and jumped in after a big breakout only to see the stock immediately reverse to the downside and lose you some serious money? If not, maybe you’ve been lucky, because this has happened to the best of us. But what if I told you [...]

Type “Island bottom” into your favorite search engine, and chances are you’ll get something other than the chart pattern that’s the subject of this episode. Island bottoms — along with island tops — are rare… But when you are able to spot them, they have an amazing level of accuracy. In a recent study, the [...]

Episode 24 – Pump Up The Volume Download “Pump Up The Volume” in printable format

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Episode 13 – How to Use the Stochastic Oscillator Download “How to Use the Stochastic Oscillator” in printable format

Episode 11 – The Megaphone Chart Formation Download “The Megaphone Chart Formation” in printable format

Episode 10 – How to Interpret and Use the RSI Indicator Download “How to Interpret and Use the RSI Indicator” in printable format