Tips To Maximize Your Tax Return It is an obligation of every citizen to pay taxes to the government to generate revenues. While most Americas do not agree on how their taxes are spent, most of us are busy looking for ways to boost our tax return or to pay not more than we are […]
Simple Doesn’t Mean Easy When I started this transition and I began trading momentum (read more about it here) I knew that the ultimate success wasn’t going to be easy to achieve. In fact, I told you I’d have driven you through every turn encountered all along this journey. I still believe that is […]
Hey all, John L10 here! Over the course of my trading career, I have had the opportunity to meet both virtually and in person, equity traders who consistently make a few thousand per day. All of these traders that I’ve met have had different techniques on how they attack the market. Some relied on semi-automated […]
The world has to stop and take notice when Warren Buffett speaks about investing or really anything at all. This is because he is the second wealthiest person on the planet (trailing behind only his good friend Bill Gates). Buffett made his fortune through careful and intentional stock picking that no one has been able […]
The stock market is a complex place in which many people try many different strategies in an attempt to make money for themselves. Virtually everyone who has ever bothered to invest in the market in the first place has had a desire to beat the market averages and make more money than they ever dreamed […]
The Federal Reserve The Federal Bank of the United States is like the central bank of any other country. However, in the US, it is one of the most powerful financial institutions, since it is mandated with the task of providing the nation with a safe, flexible and stable monetary and fiscal system. It […]
Technical analysis is the most commonly used approach utilized by day traders who are speculating on a day to day basis to profitably navigate the markets. While there are a myriad of ways to approach technical analysis and even more patterns to recognize, just a few key points will be of an immense help to […]
Switching Strategy Mindset Insights As you may already know, I recently decided to focus my trading on a single strategy which is also the one I’ve struggled the most as a newbie trader. That is momentum trading. There are several reasons that motivated me to make this move that I’ve already discussed (if you […]
Trading in the stock markets is not for the faint of heart. There are many potential pitfalls for those who are ill prepared to handle it, and you can fully expect that you will fall into some of those traps if you do not plan ahead. While we all like to fancy the idea that […]
What Are Bollinger Bands? Bollinger Bands are a technical indicator developed by John Bollinger in the 1980s that plot standard deviations around a moving average. Here’s an example chart: Bollinger Bands widen as price volatility increases and tighten as volatility declines. Wider bands imply a higher standard deviation, meaning that an average price is […]
