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Interactive Brokers to Launch IBKR Lite Platform with Free Trading Commissions

October 1, 2019October 1, 2019 by Kunal Desai

Recently Interactive Brokers launched a new brokerage service called IBKR Lite. This brokerage will offer free commissions and unlimited trades on US exchange-listed stocks and ETF’s (exchange-traded funds). Here some of the key features that you should know about: Zero commissions on US exchange-listed stocks and ETFs No account minimums No inactivity fees Free market …

Biggest Differences Between Winning and Losing Traders

February 29, 2020September 28, 2019 by Nick P

Too many people in the world hold the belief that they don’t have control over what happens in their own life. The majority of the world believes that they are a victim of circumstances out of their control. Negative events are always someone and something else’s fault. They live their lives justifying being in a …

Is Software Topping? (The Dead Cat Bounce)

September 26, 2019 by Paul Singh

If you’ve ever seen a cat fall from a tree, you know it doesn’t crash to the ground and stick the landing. Instead, it bounces before coming back down. Stocks often act like cats falling from trees, especially momentum stocks that have reached obscene heights. That’s because many traders have short memories and buy dips …

How to Anticipate False Breakouts in Stocks

February 9, 2020September 24, 2019 by Kunal Desai

Breakout trading is one of the most common styles of stock trading. It is a strategy where you buy a stock after it breaks over a resistance level, anticipating that it will head higher. But false breakouts occur all the time. It is never this simple. Many breakouts fail. Not necessarily because the general strategy …

3 Day Trading Setups I Use Every Day

April 27, 2020September 21, 2019 by Kunal Desai

The stock market can seem random and chaotic. In order to consistently profit from day trading stocks, you MUST use day trading strategies that have an edge. Many traders fail because they trade strategies that don’t have positive expectancy. This means that in the long run, they always lose money because their day trading setups …

5 Characteristics of the Best Earnings Plays

September 18, 2019September 18, 2019 by Kunal Desai

During earnings season there are sometimes as many as 50 publicly traded companies reporting earnings on any given day. So how do you know which ones to trade? Which ones will make a big move? Which ones will have a strong trend that will follow through and not immediately reverse? In yesterday’s article, we covered …

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