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Can the Turtle Trading System work with Day Trading?

Turtle Trading

Turtle Trading System vs. Al’s Trading System The turtle trading system fascinates me on many levels.  First you have two guys (Richard Dennis and William Eckhardt) debating over whether they can mold untrained every day people into master traders.  Apparently, Richard who was claiming you could was right in his belief that winning traders can Read the full article →

Day Trading or Swing Trading – 7 Key Differentials

Day Trading or Swing Trading

Day trading or swing trading that is the question.  If you are an active trader, day trading and swing trading will feel like second cousins.  At the end of the day both trade methodologies seek to make short-term profits based on price fluctuations in the market.  In this article I will provide 7 key differentials Read the full article →

9 Reasons a Live Day Trading Room is Bad for You

Live Day Trading Room

How many of you have heard of a live day trading room? Have you ever been in one before? I have subscribed to approximately 3 trading rooms over my career. In this post I will cover in great detail the 9 reasons live day trading rooms continue to fail its’ subscribers and why you should Read the full article →

7 Ways to Find the Best Stocks to Day Trade

Stockcharts

There are thousands of stocks you can trade on any given day. The potential number of trade opportunities can feel overwhelming to the untrained eye. Do you pick popular stocks like Apple or Google to trade? Do you just play IPOs and shoot for a quick flip based on the hype? Maybe you scan the Read the full article →

10 Reasons You Should Practice Day Trading

Day Trading is Fast

Remember when you were a kid and you would get your favorite video game?  You couldn’t wait to get the game home so you could rip open the package and start playing.  The instruction manual might as well have been part of the plastic wrapper which you discarded in a matter of seconds after opening. Read the full article →

Day Trading Salary – How much money can you really make?

Day Trading Salary

Let me first start off by saying anyone that tells you a definitive range for a day trading salary you might as well assume they are telling you a bed time story. I might as was well be talking to one of my kids about Yo Gabba Gabba.  For all you corporate people that can Read the full article →

First Hour Trading – Simple Strategies for Consistent Profits

First 5 minute bar

Assuming you have either started day trading or are looking to get into the game, I am going to shock you in this article.  What I will cover here would have saved me 20 months of headache if I just had someone give it to me straight.  Recent studies have shown that the majority of Read the full article →

Best Moving Average for Day Trading

Breakout example

Why Moving Averages are Good for Day Trading Keeping things Simple Day trading is a fast game.  You can be up handily in one second and then give back all of your profits shortly thereafter.  As a trader, you need a clean way to understand when a stock is trending and when things have taken Read the full article →

How Many Monitors Do I Need for Day Trading

Trading Monitors

Let me first start off by saying that at my peak I had 4 monitors when I was day trading.  I did not have one of those custom setups where a company builds you some supercharged desktop machine with a chassis of monitors stacked on top of each other.  I had three monitors directly in front Read the full article →

9 Reasons Why I do not Trade During Lunch

It took close to 19 months for me to realize that I made the majority of my gains between 9:50 am and 11:00 am.  I spent countless hours trying all types of techniques to gain an upper hand when trading the entire day.  The reality of it is that I was approaching trading the same Read the full article →