If you want to improve your price action trading skill,
watching the market swings is great way to start.
Not exact matches
The standard advice from financial advisors to 20 - somethings is to invest as much as they can in stocks — regardless of periodic
market swings, however wild, like those seen over the past few days — and
watch long - term compounding do its magic for the next 40 - plus years.
As such, invest a few minutes of your time right now to
watch the video below and learn why the most astute and successful
swing traders always utilize discipline and patience when actively trading on the short side of the
market.
Since I rebalanced last have been
watching how various bond funds react to equity
market swings.
Swing, going to the
market, running errands,
watching tv with baby, take a warm bath with baby.
It is difficult for the average investor to
watch their portfolio value take wild
swings every time the
markets jump up and down.
The day - to - day
swings in the
market can be nauseating to
watch but a reemergence of volatility could provide new opportunities to find value in both domestic and foreign equities.
Look at the blue circles in the illustration above, these are the
swing points at which you want to
watch for obvious price action signals forming, then you are trading from a confluent point of «value» within a trending
market.
The way that we take advantage of these horizontal level
swing points, is to
watch for price action strategies forming near them as the
market pulls back.
I don't
watch the
market on a daily basis and so far have been able to handle smaller
swings in the
market over the past couple years.
As a
market makes new highs or lows it forms what I call «
swing points» in the
market, these are very important levels to
watch because they essentially create new support or resistance.
Also, in a trending
market like this, we can
watch the previous
swing points for price action signals as the
market retraces back to them.
For those heavily invested in the stock
market,
watching these wild
swings can be dizzying.
If you can't stomach
watching 50 % of the value of your portfolio vanish because the
market has mood
swings that suppress the inherent value of your holdings, then you would be better placed investing in an index fund, or actively managed fund with low fees.