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Shorting Stocks Explained

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Many beginning investors get confused when they realize that it is possible to make money when the stock falls in price. In practice, shorting a stock is as easy as buying stocks once you get hang of it. When the market is falling, investors sell short a stock with the goal of profiting from the fall in the price of that stock.

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Backtesting Explained (Part I)

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With Backtesting, traders can actually test their trading strategies and how well they would have done if executed in the past. Backtesting any trading strategy allows a trader to simulate its expected performance using historical price data.

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Trading Multiple Timeframes

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Have you ever traded multiple timeframes? No, then let me explain what multiple timeframe trading is. In multiple timeframe trading, a trader first looks at a longer timeframe like a monthly or weekly chart to determine the overall direction of the trend. Multiple time frame trading is a trading method used extensively by forex traders. It involves the use of multiple timeframes.

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Divergence Trading

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Divergences are often used as important trading signals. But it doesn’t mean that divergences will always predict a reversal correctly. Price oscillator divergences have long been acknowledged by technical traders as a solid indicator of potential price reversals. Well defined divergences particularly on the long term charts can be surprisingly accurate in many instances.

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Fibonacci and Pivot Point Trading (Part II)

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Pivot points are considered to be leading indicators unlike most of the other technical indicators. This makes them highly useful to the traders to tell them about the market sentiment whether it is bullish or bearish. There are a number of pivot points that you need to calculate. How is the pivot levels calculated? Beginning with the main Pivot Point that is calculated from the previous day’s key price points, the resulting support and resistance are subsequently derived from the following calculations:

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Trading And Seasonality In The Markets

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The day before the Presidents day is the worst day and the day after the Easter is the worst day after. However, you should keep in mind that a lot of other factors also come into play and you have a lot of room for error. The next best holiday bets are the Labor Day and the Memorial Day because they fall before the first day of trading in September and June respectively.

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The Basics Of A 401K Account

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Many companies have switched to 401k accounts for their employees’ retirement plans instead of the traditional pension. This is often beneficial to the employee because the investment is handled by an outside investment company. Because of that, unless the employee invests in the stock of the company he works for, the chances of losing one’s retirement income when an employer goes out of business is minimized. This article will help you understand the basics of a 401k account.

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