Category: MarketClub Techniques, Tips & Talk

Tips and trick from traders on how to become a better trader.

Dan Gramza & Daily Market Studies

Posted on by lindsay

For those not familiar with Dan Gramza, he is a well known author, advisor, educator, and trader. Not only is he president of Gramza Capital Management, Inc., and DMG Advisors, LLC, but he is also the author of “Trading In The Eye Of The Storm” and “The Handbook of Japanese Candle Trading Strategies." Gramza has appeared on CNN’s “Moneyline,” Reuters TV and Bloomberg TV. Watch Gramza's complimentary daily analysis.

Gramza is a respected educator and analyst, and is an instructor for the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Education Center, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange DePaul University, The Chicago Board of Trade and the Chicago Stock Exchange.

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Daily Market Studies with Dan Gramza

Dan Gramza’s daily market studies is an on-line educational resource brought to you by INO.com and the CME Group. This complimentary sign-up will allow you to accesses videos of Dan Gramza as he discusses some of the prior day setups in each of the CME Group markets. Dan presents graphs in his easy to understand teaching style to provide insights, considerations and implications for trading futures and options on Stock Indexes, Forex, Grains, Precious Metals and more.

Access Gramza's complimentary daily analysis.

All the best,

INO.com & The INO TV Team

Traders Toolbox: Money Management Part 1 of 4 Revisited...

Posted on by lindsay

Trader's Toolbox

At MarketClub our mission is to help you become a better trader. Our passion is creating superior trading tools to help you achieve your goals -- no matter which way the markets move -- with objective and unbiased recommendations not available from brokers.

The Trader's Toolbox posts are just another free resource from MarketClub.

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"Crucial but often overlooked, money management practices can mean the difference between winning and losing in the markets.

Plenty of books, manuals, and software packages will help you form and opinion of a market, but not many will tell you how to trade once you have decided to get long or short. The goal of money management is to increase the odds of high quality trades. And as we’ll see, leaving the money management variable out of your trading equation can lead to ruin, even if you’re correct about the market direction.

In a broad sense, money management can encompass those elements of trading outside the initial decision to get long or short in a given market or markets – that is, how many positions to put on, when to get out, where to place protective stops. More specifically, it refers to the strategic allocation of capital to limit risk and optimize trading performance in the long run. Allocation of capital can refer to how much money to put into any one market or how much money to risk on any one trade. These decision directly affect how many positions to put on and where to place stop orders...."

Revisit the Trader's Toolbox Post: "Money Management Part 1 of 4" here.

Stevenson High Update - All 6 teams finished in top 10 in state competition.

Posted on by lindsay

If you've been following the Traders Blog for a while, you are probably familiar with our sponsor school, Stevenson High in Lincolnshire, Illinois. I was contacted by a passionate teacher who wanted to provide his students with a tool to help them increase their success in their stock market competitions. I want to share an update we received from the economics team after they participated in the Illinois State Economics competition. They did great and I am so happy to share their success with you.

Lindsay,

It has been some time since we have communicated. I want to tell you how well our Economics Club performed in the Illinois State Economics competition. Of the 42 teams we placed 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 9th, all in the top 10. Last year we had one place in the top ten and that was 2nd.

Thanks to MarketClub for all the help you provided. The students used MarketClub for research and informative articles. It was well worth their time and, as can be seen by the results, important for their understanding of how basic economic principles can be applied to real world situations.

Thank you so much for your interest in what we are doing here at Stevenson and I hope we can continue with you next year.

Sincerely,

*Teacher's name removed for privacy*
Adlai E. Stevenson High School
Lincolnshire, Illinois 60069

We are so proud of the Stevenson High Economics club!

Best,

Lindsay Thompson
Director of New Business Development
INO.com & MarketClub

Traders Toolbox: Momentum Revisited...

Posted on by lindsay

Trader's Toolbox

At MarketClub our mission is to help you become a better trader. Our passion is creating superior trading tools to help you achieve your goals -- no matter which way the markets move -- with objective and unbiased recommendations not available from brokers.

The Trader's Toolbox posts are just another free resource from MarketClub.

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"MarketClub is known for our “Trade Triangle” technology. However, if you have used other technical analysis indicators previously, you can use a combination of the studies and other techniques in conjunction with the “Trade Triangles” to further confirm trends.

Momentum measures the change in a commodity’s price with time. M = Pc-Pn where M = momentum, Pc = current period’s price and Pn = price n periods ago.

The length of time used for the prior period is a matter of personal preference and time horizon of the trader. A narrow window of less than five periods back would be short-term in nature while six to nine periods would be considered intermediate; 10 or more would be a longer time perspective...."

Revisit the Trader's Toolbox Post: "Momentum" here.

Traders Toolbox: Moving Average Convergence/Divergence Revisited...

Posted on by lindsay

Trader's Toolbox

At MarketClub our mission is to help you become a better trader. Our passion is creating superior trading tools to help you achieve your goals -- no matter which way the markets move -- with objective and unbiased recommendations not available from brokers.

The Trader's Toolbox posts are just another free resource from MarketClub.

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"MarketClub is known for our “Trade Triangle” technology. However, if you have used other technical analysis indicators previously, you can use a combination of the studies and other techniques in conjunction with the “Trade Triangles” to further confirm trends.

Developed by Gerald Appel, this indicator consists of two lines: a solid line called the MACD line and a solid line called the signal line. The MACD line consists of two exponential moving averages, while the signal line is composed of the MACD line smoothed by another exponential moving average..."

Revisit the Trader's Toolbox Post: "Moving Average Convergence/Divergence" here.