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Five Steps to Consistent Profits
by Dr. Van K. Tharp, Ph.D.

The goal of my Super Trader program is to help people develop a full time trading business that produces consistent, above average profits under various market conditions. This means that you can perform profitably in up markets (both quiet and volatile), in down markets (both quiet and volatile)...

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EMAs: Where They Belong in Your Trading Toolbox
by Jim Wyckoff

The exponential moving average (EMA) is a less popular but more sophisticated version of the simple moving averages. You need a computer trading program such as FutureSource to employ an EMA indicator. With the EMA, more importance is put on the recent price action, but all the price data in the ...

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Stock Market: hammering out a bottom while Fear jumped to a 3-month high
by Robert W. Colby

Stock Market: hammering out a bottom while Fear jumped to a 3-month high. Friday’s price action in the stock price indexes qualifies as a hammer, which is a bullish reversal candlestick pattern in a downward price trend. The hammer has a long lower shadow much greater than the small real body and...

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Currency/Commodity Markets
by Kevin Klombies

Below we show the 1987 comparison between the U.S. 30-year T-Bond futures and the S&P 500 Index. Our purpose is to take the TBonds chart that we featured and then show how it impacted the equity markets. In April and May of 1987 the SPX made two bottoms. The first was related to the ‘crossing...

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The Mirror
by Dr. Janice Dorn, M.D., Ph.D.

Look in a mirror, and one thing's sure. What we see is not who we are... Richard Bach The way we perceive our actions or the consequences of our actions is, often, entwined closely with the way we identify who we are. We traders often define ourselves in terms of our trading...our actions and ina...

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