How to Build a Profitable EMA Crossover Trading System

The exponential moving average (EMA) crossover trading system is one of the simplest systems to build and read, but don’t let its simplicity fool you. Used correctly, this trading system can help you enter the market when the trend is just beginning and exit the market or sell short when the trend is reversing. What [...]

Why This Might be a Bear Trap

The similarities between today’s market and 2008 are the same on their face, which should put everyone in defense mode. In fact, 3 out of 4 bear market warning signs have now appeared and the bear threatens to show its ugly face for a third time this tumultuous 21st century.  Lest everyone give up all [...]

Bear Market Warning Signs

Eerie warning signs have emerged, which should put investors on guard and ready to prepare for a fresh bear market decline. Yet, hope is not all lost.

UUP Behaves Like a Lovesick Nerd

A weak dollar has meant a strong market and vice versa for some time now. However, with European bond issues hitting the news wires virtually every other day, $UUP has kept analysts on their heels as one day it threatens to break lower only to whipsaw higher once again, putting a monkey wrench into the [...]

Stock Trading Technical Analysis Basics Guide

Technical analysis offers a quick and dirty way to shove aside the research and get right at the crux of the issue. That is, what is smart money doing? The trend is your friend and stocks tend to rise in unison when big institutional buyers are behind the move. Technical analysis, including indicators such as [...]