Dashboard — NotQuiteHuman

Accumulated knowledge from blogs, people, magazines, etc. over the last year.

Most importantly

Volume is the cause for price
Breakouts have a bigger volume and need confirmation on the second day with more than average volume afterwards
Volume and overlayed MA20 (because there are 20 trading days /month)
Keep it simple with charts, price and volume are the most important
Concentrate on current investments, not past or future ones
Only look at the daily chart, not 30 min, 5 min or anything. It'll make you crazy.
Breaking resistance needs a follow through day, i.e. another day up.
In a bull market a normal pullback from the highs is a 50% retracement
Always look at daily, weekly, monthly to spot resistance/support points
Watch volume on the daily chart to compare it better with other volumes on other days.
Read news and find trading ideas 6:00 - 7:30am (Europe), for sure before the trading day starts
Always keep some cash for short term opportunities
You don't need to trade every day! You don't need to trade every day!
If a company publishes earnings and the stock doesn't move much it might be that most people already own the stock, it could go down.
Make sure you know who publishes the information, who's behind the news
Stay away from penny stocks
Use a stock scanner the day before trading to find potential candidates for trading

Key Economic Indicators

Interest rate (price of money): if interest rates are low it's good for the stock market.
Inflation: High inflation is bad for the economy. Deflation is bad as well. Most sectors will do badly.
GDP: steadily rising gdp is good for corporate earnings. 2 consecutive periods of falling gdp is called a recession.
unemployment rate
consumer confidence (the less consumer confidence the less spending happens)
us house prices
Most important indicator: ISM/PMI Index (very good predictor of how the economy will be in 3 - 6 months): above 50 it is expanding, below 50 it is contracting.
It's long been said that manufacturing is the first sector to wobble, then the transmission into services is seen a quarter or so later. Lower inflation and slowing manufacturing hits the industrial services side of the economy first and this is eventually felt in retail facing areas.

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