Beginning traders can leave the markets angry and frustrated when of course the markets provided plenty of opportunities
on both sides of the market for risk and reward alike.
As discussed in the video, many traders fail to successfully
trade on both sides of the market because, even if they have the right technical chart patterns, they simply buy or sell at the wrong time.
But in a multi-sided market, the high prices charged to one side of the market can be used to benefit consumers on the other side of the market; and that consumer benefit can increase output
on that side of the market in ways that create benefits for the first side of the market.
Recent trading action may have been great for daytraders who thrive on intraday trends, but for swing traders like ourselves, erratic price action from one day to the next has admittedly led to challenging trading
conditions on either side of the market (click here for a comparison of daytrading vs. swing trading).
Friedman's system also allowed for
choice on both sides of the market: Just as parents got to pick where to send their kids, schools had the right to accept some applicants and reject others.
Add to it, this infographic appears to have been originally produced by UpCounsel, an online marketplace for outsourcing legal projects at a lower cost, and we begin to see how the
pressures on this side of the market are adding up.
But the use of complex pricing schemes to determine
prices on each side of the market to maintain an appropriate volume of transactions in the overall market creates a unique opportunity for competitors to behave opportunistically.
While the long - term «buy and hold» investors thrive on strong uptrends in the market, a huge benefit of momentum trend trading when the going gets rough is the ability to
profit on both sides of the market (long and short).
Despite this, the accurate signals received from our market timing model enabled us to still score decent gains in November by swing
trading on both sides of the market (updated stats of our trading profits through November 2012 will soon be posted on «performance» page of our website).
Funds and other speculators were
on both sides of the market and industry was a net buyer.
On both sides of the market — both those who publish science - fiction and those who read it — are the ones we've seen adopting this technology first.
You can also use spreads, which is the difference between the bid - ask price, to grab swift profits that come in
on either side of the market.
These are just two examples, of course, but what's important to realize is that the ability to buy and sell futures contracts means that money can be made
on both sides of the market.