The Ultimate Guide to Trading Earnings

The Ultimate Guide to Trading Earnings

When a Company releases its earnings report, the stock price will react with elevated volume and volatility often resulting in a price gap up or down the following day. Traders look forward to the earnings season where larger stock price moves can present outsized...
The Ultimate Guide to Risk Management

The Ultimate Guide to Risk Management

While making profits is the goal of trading, it has to be tempered with prudent risk management to enable profits to matter. The dark side of trading that often gets overlooked is the defensive posture that needs to accompany a strong offense. What good is a $1,000...
What is a Day Trading Strategy?

What is a Day Trading Strategy?

“The more things change, the more they stay the same”, is a classic theme that applies not only to the markets but also the day traders that populate them. While it’s easy to click buy and sell orders all day chasing stocks, the key to longevity is having a well...
Everything You Need to Know About Large Trader IDs

Everything You Need to Know About Large Trader IDs

Volatility in the markets can originate from all sorts of participants ranging from small retail investors to major institutions and hedge funds. The “meme” stock revolution has empowered the retail trader as groups of independent retail traders all jumping into...
How to Deal with Trading Losses

How to Deal with Trading Losses

Every trader knows that losses are part of the game. However, there are good losses and bad losses. It’s easy to have a case of Schadenfreude whenever taking a stop loss. If the stock collapses much lower after you stop out, you feel better. If the stock immediately...
The Ultimate Guide to SEC Filings

The Ultimate Guide to SEC Filings

The U.S. stock markets are regulated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). This independent federal governing body is responsible for ensuring the integrity and structure of financial markets, protecting investors and facilitating capital formation....