Trading the stock index with positive slippage
Why stock index trading at all? Most stocks react to movements of the index, but they have a band of random noise overlaid. Trading the stock index is easier than trading the main tech stocks. While it may be a good strategy to get into growth stocks by using the index as a trading signal, […]
Trend day trading or taming the random demon
Intraday trends are hard to catch. That is the common wisdom of day traders and in their pain they try to do it more elaborate by spotting breakouts, chart formations and crossings of indicators. Oh no, that is the wrong day trading style! You are on the road to nowhere, at its best, or more […]
Trading signals from futures for stocks
Is trading futures compared with stocks the better idea? Both have their points. Stock markets offer thousands investment stories to choose from, futures only a handful. Yet, stocks often move coherently. They get dragged down or pushed up by the general market sentiment. At times the various underlying commodities, currencies and stock markets of future […]
