THE MARKET ENGINEER

Today we want to talk about two topics that could be detrimental to a trader. One is trading pride and the other is trading imagination. First let me tell you a story of a woman who was having some problems. She went to her pastor and said I need help. The pastor asked her what… Continue reading TME 038: Trading Pride and Trading Imagination

Today we are going to talk about how to be a trader. The brokerage account (where you have your money) will consider you a trader if you buy and sell stocks in a certain way or a certain number of times.   Today we don’t want to talk about what the brokerage account considers traders.… Continue reading TME 036: How to be a Trader

What are penny stocks? Low priced small cap stocks are known as penny stocks. A penny stock is pretty much anything under five dollars. Penny Diving I was watching a video on YouTube or the news I’m not sure which one it was. In the video a girl was looking at her cell phone. She… Continue reading TME 035: Penny Stocks

Today we are going to talk about trading vs investing. On a side note all of our systems are trading systems. They are not investing systems. With that in mind we will try to be as unbiased as possible and show the benefits and drawbacks of both styles without bias. How To Invest There are… Continue reading TME 034: Trading Vs Investing

I was looking at a house the other day. I was looking at it as an investment property. The house had foundation problems. The man who came to look at the house was a foundation repairman. When he got out of the truck my perception of him was that he probably was a man who… Continue reading TME 033: Will Your Broker Make You Broker?

What Is the Dow Jones Industrial Average? Today we are going to talk about the Dow Jones Industrial Average. What is the Dow Jones Industrial Average? The Dow Jones is a stock market index. It has been around since 1896. The Dow Jones index shows how 30 large public companies trade during a session. The… Continue reading TME 032: Dow Jones

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