Trading is a business - and in order to be at your best each and every day, you have to get in a routine. That means that before you start trading, you will want to come up with a daily trading plan.
This morning, the market received some much-anticipated news: the U.S. economy added 261,000 jobs in October. This was slightly less than expected, but didn't do much to sway any expectations for...
Markets look interesting right now. Yesterday, equity futures made all-time highs before falling pretty sharply from them. Crude Oil ($CLZ7) hit its highest level since January - before falling after...
There are a lot of reasons that fear may creep into a trader's mindset: fear of loss, being wrong, missing out, success, and failure. Of these, the one that is the easiest to control is fear of loss....
In overnight trading, the recent trends continued: Crude Oil ($CLZ7) gained $0.60, the S&P 500 ($ESZ7) added nearly 10 points, and the Euro ($6EZ7) lost 40 pips. The only outlier is Gold ($GCZ7),...
Today will be a positioning day as traders look to finalize bets ahead of the Federal Reserve meeting tomorrow and the jobs report on Friday. Gold futures ($GCZ7) are down $5 - continuing a slide...
We're expecting this to be an interesting week in futures markets. Not only did markets last week start to break out above key levels, but the news out this week will help provide a more clear...
The Euro ($6EZ7) is collapsing since yesterday's ECB meeting - with prices falling more than 200 pips in the past 24 hours. Prices really accelerated as futures broke below 1.1750. The next level of...
At TopstepTrader, we view trading as part art and part science. You could give the same chart to two equally-skilled technical traders who have a different view on where the price will go.
That's...
Today is a big day for tech stocks - they're even calling it Super Thursday. A ton of Nasdaq ($NQZ7) names report earnings after the bell, including Alphabet (Google's parent company), Amazon,...
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