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The Trend Trader

By Bob Kozak • Aug 18th, 2009 • Category: Currencies, Energies, Financials, Grains, Indices (SP500, Dow, Nasdaq), Meats, Metals, Softs

The Trend Trader helps to identify the current trend status of your favorite markets. Each contract in the table is represented by a directional tendency for both the Minor and Major trends.  Two up arrows identify a Bullish Trend – two down arrows a Bearish Trend – one of each a Neutral Trend. The Trend [...]

Helpful Trading Tips

By Bob Kozak • Oct 7th, 2008 • Category: Commodities, Day-Trading, Futures

HELPFUL HINTS
INITIAL RISK EXPOSURE.
HOW MUCH SHOULD I RISK ON A PARTICULAR TRADE? THIS IS A QUESTION THAT YOU NEED TO MAKE BEFORE PLACING THE TRADE. MANY OF YOU REFUSE TO USE ‘STOP-LOSS’ ORDERS BECAUSE YOU DO NOT WANT TO GET ‘STOPPED-OUT’! EGO PLAYS A LARGE PART IN TRADING AND AS SOON AS YOU CAN RID [...]

Understanding Entry Techniques

By Bob Kozak • Oct 7th, 2008 • Category: Commodities, Day-Trading, Futures

HELPFUL HINTS:

ENTRY TECHNIQUES
Planning your trade and working your plan leads to better trading results. We hear this from traders who have been ‘emotionally’ tied to a trade, which they believed had to turn around and go in their favor, because all their trading signals pointed to a ‘winning’ trade. Unfortunately, commodity markets do not always [...]

How to use Pivot Points

By Bob Kozak • Oct 7th, 2008 • Category: Futures

Pivot Points
Exactly when and by whom pivot points were created is not easily found in a search of internet data bases. Books on technical analysis usually do not make mention of it. Ask your broker about the pivot point for the day or week of a particular commodity and most likely he/she will be confused [...]

 

 

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