Generally, active traders who are watching and trading the market all day tend to break the trading session into three broad divisions, each lasting about two hours. Both the first and last segments are characterized by heavier volume, while the middle two-hour period is relatively light. If we want to refine the stages a little [...]

Many active traders seem to pay little attention to the tax consequences of their short-term gains. They believe that they can make enough money with day and short-term trading to make taxes on gains a nonissue. Long-term traders have always been concerned about capital gains, not wanting to hold stocks less than a year so [...]

Active traders know that market makers for NASDAQ stocks like to play mental electronic games. Longer-term investors can save some emotional wear and tear by being aware of the head fake, so when they see it they will not react quite so instinctively and end up feeling duped. The purpose of the head fake, as [...]

This is one of the predictable rituals played out four times per year in the market. Since earnings are considered by many to be the fundamental engine that drives stocks forward, earnings season is never far away from the minds of those who follow the markets closely. Because different companies report earnings according to their [...]

The beginning and endings of months and quarters tend to be related to good or bad performance of the market. The beginning of months tends to be positive, while the end of a month can be choppy, as portfolio managers want their month-end portfolio to look good. So they tend to sell stocks that are [...]

Assuming we have the desire for greater control, believe we have the right to have control, and believe we have the ability to make the changes, what else do we need to know to gain control? We need to have the skills, or tools to put into practice that which will achieve our goal. To [...]