What is Pre-Market Trading? Pre-market trading is the period before the stock market opens in the morning, it typically starts as early as 4am EST for the most liquid stocks and ETF’s. Most stocks will start to see volume come into them around 8am. Pre-market ends at 9:30 AM when the stock market opens. The …
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Swing trading and day trading are the best style of trading for making large returns in just days or weeks. They do come with more risk and difficulty than long term investing and the traditional buy-and-hold. But the reward of executing these two styles of momentum trading correctly can exponentially grow a trading account. In …
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Things have slowed down a bit this week with earnings season starting to come to a close. Still some reports coming out, but the bulk of the juicy ones have announced already. The good news is that the overall market volatility has increased the past few weeks, and continued into this week. Leveraged ETF’s like …
An exhaustion gap is a critical concept to understand when trading stocks at the market open. A gap refers to a stock that opens above or below its prior closing price. An exhaustion gap is different from most gap ups or gap downs in that it quickly reverses from the direction the stocked gapped in. …
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Another week that defies the “slow summer trading” stereotype. Many great earnings plays, explosive biotech catalyst, and even small-cap runners! Here is a recap of some of the day trades I took this week. The good, the bad, and the ugly! $CRWD, $ALLK, $SOXL Papercut, $OSTK Scratch $CRWD On Monday, the overall market had just …
Market pullbacks are inevitable. No matter what you trade, nothing goes straight up forever without pullbacks or crashes. This week have seen a large pullback in the US stock market, and I see people panicking and making the same mistakes every time. When you have the right rules and training, days during a market pullback …