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Paper Trading: Does it Help or Hurt?
When it comes to paper trading, there seems to be two strongly opinionated sides to its purpose in helping traders learn how to trade. There are the opponents and this group usually includes brokers (I wonder why). Their argument goes something like this: Paper trading is something you want to do for maybe a week or so in order to … Read More
Mastering Trade Execution: Unlocking VWAP and Independent Order Flow Principles
During our SMB Midday Recap Bella taught: 1) A trading execution principle for stocks that break out. 2) How to make a second-day VWAP support play in $CAT by doing the exact opposite of what he did. 3) An example of the best stocks to trade for intraday traders—those with independent order flow. $FIO was used as an example of a … Read More
Who Are You Competing With?
Have you ever contemplated who you are really competing with in the forex market? Does it really matter? You just want to make some money. Who cares right? It matters because you can gain great perspective from understanding why different market participants operate in the market. Contrary to what many of the retail trader conspiracy theorists believe, your broker is … Read More
Why is Order Flow Important?
When it comes to order flow, many newer traders tend to think of volume bars or time and sales information. It is much more than that, and it really helps to understand the premise behind how markets facilitate order flow. It may not give you an immediate strategy to make money with, but what it does is provides an added … Read More
A Scalp Trade on JBL
This is a post from our traders TO about a scalp trade he made on JBL from yesterday: My trading desk neighbor SW and I were both trading JBL today, with 19 as the key level of interest. Without knowing it, I took the opposite direction of his trade at the Open for a quick momentum scalp. SW got long … Read More
Traders Ask: Fake Order Flow?
Dear Bella, Thanks for writing your book as I’ve found it immensely useful! Regarding order flow, I’ve heard people saying that institutions and big traders place large buy orders hoping other traders bid in front of those orders. The institution will then sell those bids. In many ways it’s a game of cat-and-mouse that often goes unnoticed by new traders. … Read More
HGSI – Reading The Order Flow
On Monday I was flipping through my list of earnings stocks trying to find what to trade on the open. While scanning through my overnight winners/losers I came across this stock. I noticed it was up $6 and change in premarket on some dopey news about a phase III on their drug. A considerable gap up for a stock that … Read More