Sentences with phrase «trader takes a short position»

Not exact matches

Many futures traders prefer to be long - only traders, which means that they may not entertain the idea of taking a short position.

The long - term setups are unchanged in both the BTC and the USD pairs, and we still advise short - term traders to wait for a move before taking on new positions, while long - term investor could still accumulate XRP inside the consolidation patterns.

If the world's finance communities won't let their derivative operations fail, what is to stop some trader in 2015 from taking short «hyper - leveraged» (2nd order time - sequence derivative plays don't think exist yet) positions on all the world's currencies?

Bond trading can be short, or long term and allows bond traders to take a position on future interest rate movements while leveraging the security and stability of government treasuries.

When selling or taking a short position, a trader pays the bid price.

Ok, for anybody short, the fakey pattern was a clear signal to get out of shorts and reverse to longs and for those traders not in a trade, this was a clear signal to take a long position.

Swing Trading / Position Trading: This style of trading involves taking a short to mid-term view on the market and traders who swing trade will be in a trade anywhere from a few hours to several days or weeks.

In my small unique book «The small stock trader» I also had more detailed overview of tens of stock trading mistakes (http://thesmallstocktrader.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/stock-day-trading-mistakessinceserrors-that-cause-90-of-stock-traders-lose-money/): • EGO (thinking you are a walking think tank, not accepting and learning from you mistakes, etc.) • Lack of passion and entering into stock trading with unrealistic expectations about the learning time and performance, without realizing that it often takes 4 - 5 years to learn how it works and that even +50 % annual performance in the long run is very good • Poor self - esteem / self - knowledge • Lack of focus • Not working ward enough and treating your stock trading as a hobby instead of a small business • Lack of knowledge and experience • Trying to imitate others instead of developing your unique stock trading philosophy that suits best to your personality • Listening to others instead of doing your own research • Lack of recordkeeping • Overanalyzing and overcomplicating things (Zen - like simplicity is the key) • Lack of flexibility to adapt to the always / quick - changing stock market • Lack of patience to learn stock trading properly, wait to enter into the positions and let the winners run (inpatience results in overtrading, which in turn results in high transaction costs) • Lack of stock trading plan that defines your goals, entry / exit points, etc. • Lack of risk management rules on stop losses, position sizing, leverage, diversification, etc. • Lack of discipline to stick to your stock trading plan and risk management rules • Getting emotional (fear, greed, hope, revenge, regret, bragging, getting overconfident after big wins, sheep - like crowd - following behavior, etc.) • Not knowing and understanding the competition • Not knowing the catalysts that trigger stock price changes • Averaging down (adding to losers instead of adding to winners) • Putting your stock trading capital in 1 - 2 or more than 6 - 7 stocks instead of diversifying into about 5 stocks • Bottom / top fishing • Not understanding the specifics of short selling • Missing this market / industry / stock connection, the big picture, and only focusing on the specific stocks • Trying to predict the market / economy instead of just listening to it and going against the trend instead of following it

With the unfettered ability to take on long and short positions, a day trader can stay neutral and act according to his or her current market analysis.

As the dispersion of returns increases across global markets, traders can capitalize on the large swings by taking both long and short positions.

To participate in momentum investing, a trader takes a long position in an asset that has shown an upward trending price, or the trader short - sells a security that has been in a downtrend.

Alternatively, traders could take on large short positions themselves, with the large volume of selling ideally causing the price to fall, making the strategy self perpetuating.

There are swing trading opportunities in this case too, with the trader taking a long position near the support area and taking a short position near the resistance area.

Lets assume that after checking the technicals, and the volatility surrounding Greece's future in the eurozone, a trader takes a bearish position on the EUR / USD and decides to short the euro June 2015 contract.

Presently traders can not take up a short position against bitcoins thus increasing its volatility.

This gradual decline took place amid a short squeeze, as «many traders opened longs above the $ 700 level and the ensuing price dumps forced them out of their positions,» Zivkovski told CoinDesk.

One, if the company is a Bitcoin trader who wants to take a short position in Bitcoin.