Educational articles and publications on trading and position sizing. Improve your trading and risk management skills.
Fundamental analysis is a method of determining the intrinsic value of an asset and analyzing the quantitative and qualitative elements that may influence its future price. For this purpose, the companies' financial statements and various financial ratios
Technical Analysis assumes that all information that can influence the value of a company is already incorporated into the stock price. Price trends, price patterns and support and resistance levels are then used to predict the future price.
Fundamental and technical analysis are both methods used to analyze companies with the intention of deciding what and/or when something is considered a good idea to buy or not.
Swing Trading is primarily based on technical analysis where positions are held for the short to medium term, from several days to weeks.
Position traders are long-term investors. They are not concerned with the daily price fluctuations on the intraday chart.
Daytrading or Intraday trading is - as the name implies - the buying and selling of a financial product within one trading day. This is in contrast to Swing Trading and Position Trading where positions are held longer than one day.
Unlike daytrading and swing trading, this strategy is entirely focused on the long term. The basic principle is that shares are bought with the intention of holding them for years.
The mean reversion strategy is based on the assumption that extremely high and low prices which have been established in a relatively short time have deviated too much from the mean price so that there is a high probability that there will be a fall back
The Breakout trading strategy is a strategy by which a position is taken as soon as a certain price level is broken.
Stocks that are expected to grow significantly faster than their sector peers and the overall market average are considered growth stocks. Investors who invest in growth stocks do so specifically because they expect the price of the stock to rise exponent
Dividend investing offers recurring income coming from dividend payments and in addition there is the potential capital appreciation from the stock. Dividend payments can be paid out as income or you can choose to reinvest these dividend payments to furth
Simply put, the value investor specifically looks for companies whose market value (stock price) is lower than their current intrinsic value.
A retracement strategy involves looking for stocks in a long-term rising trend whose price is experiencing a temporary dip.
In this strategy guide we will discuss in detail all the key concepts that are important if you want to start with a trend following trading strategy.
Quality investors focus on companies with an excellent track record of sales and earnings growth and where profit margins remain stable.
In this article we will deal with the concept of 'volume' in trading and investing and the way this indicator can give important indications when making buying or selling decisions.
The concept of sector rotation in a full economic cycle is nothing new, but still too few investors use it. However, analyzing sectors and industries is a great way to become more consistent in your trading results.
The number 1 trading rule: cut your losses and let your profits run
Learn why size is one of the most important variables when trading.
What you risk is not the same as what you invest
Be aware of diversification
Tesla as an example trade
Learn how to recognize winners and losers
Using the stop loss indicators in ChartMill
Some general pointers on trading, setups, position sizing and money management.
Short Selling is selling shares you don't own with the intend to buy them back at a lower price to make profit from a decline.
A "stoploss order" will ring a bell with most investors, the majority will answer that such orders are used to limit the loss on a position or to protect accumulated profits. Correct. But do you also know the Sell Stop or Buy Stop order? This is a much
An in depth reading on ChartMill Channels
A review of Value In Time by Pascal Willain
A review of the initial version of the www,chartmill.com website
Is diversification the holy grail? Maybe not.
An in depth discussion on the ChartMill Bull and Bear Indicators.
An in depth discussion on the ChartMill Bull and Bear Indicators.
n in depth discussion on the ChartMill Bull and Bear Indicators.
Is diversification the holy grail? Maybe not (part 2)
Tsunami Setups or Squeeze Play Setups can lead to great breakouts
Weinstein’s phase model superposed with a quantified system dynamics model
Position Sizing is the single most important aspect in trading and is what will make you profitable or not.
Position Sizing is the single most important aspect in trading and is what will make you profitable or not.
Position Sizing is the single most important aspect in trading and is what will make you profitable or not.
Learn how to evaluate and control your performance.
Learn how to evaluate and control your performance. (part 2)
Learn how to evaluate and control your performance. (part 3)
Learn how to evaluate and control your performance. (part 4)
More return with less risk (part 2)
More return with less risk
On risk management and position sizing
Physics laws on the stocks market
Physics laws on the stocks market (part 2)
A more in depth description of the Effective Volume indicator which measures accumulation and distribution by large players
An in depth treatment of the ChartMill Value Indicator.
An overview of articles published in Stocks & Commodities Magazine