When you decide to open a trade, you are faced with a lot of decisions at once: some are easy if you have a set strategy (which instrument to trade?), some are harder (where to put the Stop Loss and Take Profit?), but the one that usually becomes the reaso... Read more

    We are continuing our series of posts where we compare successful traders to unsuccessful ones. Last time we look at trade frequency, where we saw that successful traders do not place as many trades. Check out that post here.     Today we will look at b... Read more

This week we posted some fascinating behavioural research on our blog, quantifying the impact, playing with your stop loss has on your trading performance. You can read the post in full on the site.   In summary people don't like to accept losing mo... Read more

    Today we’re going to talk about Stop Losses, specifically about moving them. The way it usually happens is like this: you open a trade, you set a stop loss to limit your exposure to the market, and then you see the price moving against you, inching closer ... Read more

    Volatility is one of the most important things to keep an eye on in trading. In short, it’s a measure of price movement - the drops and rises an instrument has. When volatility is high, there are more opportunities for a trade, and the returns are higher i... Read more

    A streak is when the price is moving in one direction multiple days in a row. Why should you be interested to know when this happens? Well, if markets are random then tomorrow’s move will be either up or down with equal 50/50 probability split. However, ma... Read more

    This blog post is dedicated to arguably the most famous technical analysis signal - the all-powerful moving average cross.     The market alert we are looking at today is triggered when the instrument’s Moving Average lines cross over each other. You ca... Read more

    If you’ve read our blog post about the N-day high/low alert, you know what a breakout is and how to trade it, as well as how to set up an alert to be the first to know about a breakout. If you haven’t yet, be sure to check it out.     But it’s not alway... Read more

    How many times have you opened your favorite financial newsletter and read about an instrument setting a new 52-week high, wondering what kind of trade would you be able to put in if you got in before everyone else?     If you have heard about breakout ... Read more

Here we will explain in detail how to set up and use our PsyQuation Market Alerts suite.   To access the Market Alerts, click on the bell icon on the website’s toolbar: To set up a new alert, click on the “Create New Alert” page: You w... Read more