THE MARKET ENGINEER

I remember eating with the family as a child. The news was on and they were talking about the stock market. My dad had money in the market so he was listening intently. The year was 1987 the date was October 19 and it was a Monday. It is also known as Black Monday. The… Continue reading TME 031: 1987 Stock Market Crash

Market Trends We have talked a lot in the past about trend following but how do we find market trends? We can talk about a method all day long but it would also be good if we talked about how to do it. Markets trend up and they trend down. How do we find those market… Continue reading TME 030: Market Trends

What is An ETF? An ETF or Exchange Traded Fund is a marketable Security. An ETF can track an index, a commodity, a bond, or a basket of companies. ETFs typically have lower fees than mutual funds. They trade like stocks. The price of an ETF changes throughout the day. What is ETF Trading? If… Continue reading TME 029: ETF Trading

What is Risk Management
? Risk management is the identification, assessment, and prioritization of risks followed by coordinated and economical application of resources to minimize, monitor, and control the probability and/or impact of unfortunate events or to maximize the realization of opportunities.
Risks can come from different ways uncertainty in financial markets, threats from project failures, legal… Continue reading TME 028: Risk Management

What is Volatility?  Volatility defined A statistical measure of the dispersion of returns for a given security or market index. Volatility can either be measured by using the standard deviation or variance between returns from that same security or market index. Commonly, the higher the volatility, the riskier the security. INVESTOPEDIA EXPLAINS ‘VOLATILITY’
In other words,… Continue reading TME 027: Volatility

Today we are going to talk about short term trading. Short term trading can mean different things to different people. We are going to talk about short term trading the way we use it. The day trader would be considered a short term trader but that is not what we want to discuss today. We see… Continue reading TME 026: Short Term Trading

Do you have what it takes to be a trader? When we watch sports sometimes someone comes along that defies what normal people can do. When the game is on the line they rise to the occasion. Some say they have a gut of steel. Look at old videos of Joe Montana… Continue reading TME 025: Trading Psychology

Long term investing or long term trading can mean different things to different types of investors or traders. If you are a day trader then a strategy that trades weekly will be long term. Some define long term as holding an asset for an extended period of time. The time could be as little as… Continue reading TME 024: Long Term Investing

What is the Stock Market? The stock market is a market where shares of public companies are issued and traded. The companies are traded either through exchanges or over the counter markets. The stock market is also known as the equity market. Many time people complain about the stock market but the stock market is… Continue reading TME 023: The Stock Market

Price Action Trading What is price? When I was young I came to my granddad and I said look at this baseball card it’s worth $5. He said it is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it. The price of something is what someone is willing to pay for it. When you… Continue reading TME 022: Price Action Trading