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Balancing Day Trading with a Full-Time Job This blog is a transcript of the video found on our YouTube channel here: How to Day Trade While Working Full Time and NOT Get Fired, a video originally recorded at the 2022 Warrior Trading All-Star Summit. You can learn more about All-Star Traders in the Warrior Community […]

Following Thursday’s GDP print of -0.9%, the US is in a recession by the standard definition of two consecutive quarters of GDP contraction. The stock market, however, is unbothered, rallying on the news.  The “official” forecasts for Q2 GDP were -0.5%, while it came in at -0.9%. That the market rallied on this tells me […]

The tides yet again shifted in the US stock market this past week. Stocks rallied all week and now all the bulls are taking a victory lap while the bears swear up and down that it’s a bear market rally.  Here are the US indices returns for the week: S&P 500: +5.5% NASDAQ 100: +7.23% […]

Ever since Elon Musk made an offer to buyout Twitter (TWTR) back in April, the story has transcended the deal pages and become a tabloid phenomenon. Basically, Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter at a price of $54.20 per share, or $44 billion. A few weeks passed and Musk complained that Twitter’s user numbers were […]

Stock splits have been on the rise recently, with Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL), Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA), and GameStop (NYSE: GME) among some of the well-known companies to announce they will be splitting their shares. A split is a tool that companies, often with high stock prices, use to increase (or reduce) the number of […]

This past week we got new red-hot CPI numbers, further drama in the Elon Musk and Twitter saga, and the start of earnings season.  Let’s look at the technical picture in major indices.  The downtrend pattern in the S&P 500 is under threat right now, as a minor lower high (red arrow) was formed. At […]

What is the Alternative Display Facility (ADF)? The Alternative Display Facility (ADF) is a piece of market infrastructure run by FINRA. Institutions use it to post quotes and report trades.  It’s called the Alternative Display Facility because the ADF is an alternative to an exchange for institutions to post quotes and report trades. It’s basically […]

Click here  Summertime Trading to get Ross’s pdf on Traveling and Trading.    There is reasonable evidence that suggests the six months between November and the end of April are the best time of year to trade stocks. The November-April period has historically outperformed the six months between May and October period for stocks across many countries […]