Time Crunch Trading

There are two basic ways to approach trading. One is in term of trends. The other is in terms of ranges.
In the former case one seeks to profit by capturing the directional moves (trends) which sometimes happen in the markets. The latter is based on the idea that markets tend to spend more time moving […]

Trading requires that there be some kind of mechanism by which one determines what actions to take, or indeed to take none. Since we are taking a trend trading approach, that means determining whether the market is trending or not, and in which direction. The process by which we do that is market analysis.
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If you were to ask most market participants what drives prices and creates trends they would tell you it’s fundamentals. Later in this chapter we will go through an explanation of what fundamentals are for the various markets. As a starting point definition, though, we can call them the factors which define supply and demand.
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Fundamental analysis can be applied in any market, though some are a bit more challenging than others. In fact, if you are use a top-down approach to stock market analysis, you could incorporate analysis of several other markets in to your outlook of a particular company’s shares. Fundamentals are excellent for developing an overall picture […]

On the surface, one could define technical analysis as the use of historical information to forecast the future. That is the classical definition, but things have started changing in recent years. Today technical analysis is viewed in terms of measuring and predicting human behavior. Regardless, it is still historical information which is being applied with […]

The strong advantage of technical analysis when used to trade and/or analyze the financial markets is that it can be applied in any time frame. It was noted in the section on fundamental analysis that the results thereof are not readily applicable in short-term trading. The same is not true of technical analysis.
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Technical analysis and fundamental analysis can be viewed as separate and distinct ways at looking at the markets. They are. Quantitative analysis, oftentimes operates in conjunction with one or both of the other two. You can apply quantitative methods to fundamental data, and you can do the same to technical data.
Quantitative Analysis, for the sake […]

Quantitative analysis can be a very powerful tool for the part-time trader. It offers us the ability to do some things not easily achieved otherwise. That is the reason we have brought it in to be included among the things we can apply in our trading.
Quantitative analysis can be a bit more difficult than straight […]